Top 12 Upcoming and Planned Satellite Cities of India

Satellite Cities and town are planned to smaller metropolitan areas with independent from metropolis economically and socially. Most of the satellite cities are located near the capital of states such as Gurgaon, Faridabad,Dombivli,Auroville and Thane. The smart cities mission of India include Coimbatore,Kochi,Rourkela,Guwahati,Port Blair,Agartala,Kavaratti , Trans Ganga City and Vikram Udyog Nagari

Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh

Amaravati will be the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, located on the Krishna river banks in Guntur district. The capital city is being developed over an area of 217 km with all the HITEC facilities and transport.

Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh 

Naya Raipur is the new capital city of Chhattisgarh and serving as infrastructural needs of industry and trade in the region. The city is India’s sixth planned city, located between National Highways NH6 and NH43 over an area of about 8000 hectares. Image source- nayaraipur

New Town Kolkata, West Bengal

New Town Kolkata is one of the Kolkata’s satellite towns,Rajghat being other. This fast growing planned satellite city of Kolkata is also has green corridor,Solar City and India’s first Wi Fi road connectivity.

New Chandigarh, Chandigarh

New Chandigarh is developed as first Eco and Smart City of Punjab, The satellite city will host many parks and tourist places. This city will have residential complex with high living and software companies.

New Kanpur City, Kanpur

New Kanpur City will be developed as a satellite city of Kanpur over 10,000 acres of land at the banks of the Ganges. The city will be well planned, most modern and one of the smart city of India.

GIFT City, Gandhinagar 

GIFT City or Gujarat International Finance Tec City will be built on 359 hectares to provide high quality physical infrastructure. The under construction GIFT City between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar will have a special economic zone,IT parks,shopping malls and stock exchanges.

Dholera City, Ahmedabad 

Dholera Smart City will be built as a world class city, between the capital of Ahmedabad to the port. Dholera SIR is a major project under and would be the world largest urban development project.

HITEC City, Hyderabad 

HITEC City of Hyderabad is a hub of Information Technology and the technology township is also known as Cyberabad. The project is spread over 30 acres with residential space,small & medium office areas and commercial space.

Dwarka, Delhi

Dwarka is a sub city in Delhi being developed as a smart city under smart sub city project. The sub city is located in South West Delhi and home to largest residential suburb in Asia and also has the largest rooftop solar plant in India.

Navi Mumbai, Mumbai

Navi Mumbai is a planned township being developed as a Mega City with near by area of Kharghar to Uran. Navi Mumbai has a robust infrastructure and public services of Metro Rail, International Airport and NMMT .

Vikram City, Madhya Pradesh

Vikram Udyog Nagari or Vikram Industrial City is a upcoming business district in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. This business district will have office space,Industrial center,residential areas and will be first planned city in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

DREAM City, Gujarat

DREAM City or Diamond Research and Mercantile City will be built on 2,000 acres land in Surat. Diamond Research and Mercantile City will be Gujarat’s third smart city,Gujarat International Finance Tec-City and Dholera Smart city being other two.