Smart Cities Mission: Amritsar, Varanasi among the next set of 27 smart cities 9 Photos . Updated: 20 Sep 2016, 06:16 PM IST Livemint Union minister for urban development M. Venkaiah Naidu announced the names of 27 cities which will be included in the second phase of the Smart Cities Mission on Tuesday. 1/9Amritsar (which featured at the top of the merit list) and Jalandhar in Punjab are among the 27 cities which will be included in the second phase of the Smart Cities Mission. iStockphoto 2/9Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, along with Kanpur and Agra, are the three cities from Uttar Pradesh included in the latest list. Priyanka Parashar/Mint 3/9Thane, is among the five cities from Maharashtra (Nashik, Nagpur, Kalyan Dombivali and Aurangabad) which made it to the list. AFP 4/9Mangaluru is among the four cities from Karnataka—Hubballi-Dharwad, Shivamogga and Tumakuru—which made it to the new list. iStockphoto 5/9Two cities from the North-East, Kohima in Nagaland and Namchi in Sikkim, also made it to the list. AFP 6/9Two from Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior and Ujjain) also made it to the list. iStockphoto 7/9Tamil Nadu got four cities—Madurai, Salem, Thanjavur and Vellore. iStockphoto 8/9Kota in Rajasthan, a major coaching hub of the country, is the other city apart from Ajmer that made it to the list. iStockphoto 9/9The desert state’s neighbour, Gujarat has just one city in the list—Vadodara. iStockphoto