Urban Development Ministry, moving towards implementing the Smart City initiative, has hired 37 Consultancy firms across the country to help guide the 98 cities identified for its Smart City program. These consultancy firms have been given the task of preparing action plans for the cities identified in the Smart City list. Udaipur, alongwith Mangaluru have been assigned IIDC Ltd, who will prepare and help implementing the action plan in association with Urban Mass Transport Company Ltd and Building Design Partnership Ltd. Consultants have been assigned cities as per the size, development work needed, capacity and ability of the consultants.  Quick selection of consultants through tendering has been initiated by the Ministry of Urban Development drawing up a plan of consultants for each region. Two-day Idea Camp has also begun to prepare these cities for the second stage of the City Challenge in which 20 cities will be selected in the first lot to be developed into Smart Cities. The Consultants assigned currently are as per the following table: CRISIL: Nagpur | Kalian-Dombivali | Nasik | Thane | Solapur | Amravati ICRA: Rajkot | Kochi | Ajmer | Erode | Coimbattore All India Institute of Local Self Government: Chandigarh | Raipur | Bilaspur | Karnal |Faridabad Jones Lang La Salle: Vadodra | Bhubaneshwar | Amritsar | Chennai | Tiruchirapalli Mahindra Consulting / SUEZ / Akara: Bihar Sharif | Oulgaret | Tiruppur | Thoothukudi Feedback Infra / Happold / Cisco:  Ahmedabad | Rourkela | Kota | Agartala Mehta Associates / Oswal Computers:  Gandhinagar | Indore | Jabalpur Voyants / MINRAJ:  Gwalior | Sagar | Satna Dorsh / Kadaliya:  Kanpur | Ghaziabad | Thanjavur Alia / Genesis:  Greater Mumbai | Muzaffarpur | Durgapur Haskoning DHV / Grant Thronton:  Ujjain | Dahod Delloite / Urban Management / Hijli:  New Town Kolkatta | Bidahannagar Lea / Crux / VB Soft:  Tirupari | Tumakuru IIDC / Urban Mass Transport/ Building Design:  Mangaluru | Udaipur Aarvee / Mars Telecom:  Allahabad | Aligarh Data World / Innovest / Caritas:  Lucknow | Namchi JPS Associates:  Rampur | Moradabad IDC / IDFC:  Salem | Madurai Shah Technical: Vellore | Tirunelveli ICM / Urban Management / Edge Soft:  Agra | Bareilly Arki / IRS: Aizawl |Haldia Knight Frank / Fortress / PSP:  Hyderabad | Aurangabad Ecorys:  Bhagalpur TERI / Tractabel / Avalon:  Dharmashala IKW / SCP:  Ranchi CRP:  Davanagere SREI / Navayuga / RSP:  Shivamoga Tandon / Spatial / Maha Infortech:  Navi Mumbai PWC/CPG:  Bhopal Mott MacDonald / EnY:  Jaipur Soft Tech:  Sahranpur DDF/SGI/MSN:  Dehradun AECOM:  Visakhapatnam | Ludhiana NK Buildcon:  Varanasi | Jhansi     Source: The Economic Times