On 6th November, 2014 the Minister of Urban Development of India M.Venkaiah Naidu held talks with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former Prime Minister and Emeritus Minister Goh Chok Tong in Singapore, in separate meetings. Singapore is keen to develop a new smart satellite city in India. To take this forward, it was decided to set up Committees to further examine and concretise the areas of cooperation between the two countries in the context of India’s initiative to build 100 news smart cities, develop infrastructure in 500 towns and cities, development of heritage cities and massing urban housing programme.