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A not-so-smart proposal for an offshore smart city Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
In an unprecedented move, the parliamentary standing committee on housing and public works ministry has directly recommended a major development project—to build an offshore smart city claiming land from the Bay of Bengal—directly to the prime minister.
A parliamentary standing committee recommended the proposal of a smart city on the Bay of Bengal from a consortium of two local and two Chinese companies to the prime minister without consulting with the law ministry, the foreign ministry or any of the national security agencies. There was no environmental impact assessment (EIA), either.