[3] The Union Ministry of Urban Development is responsible for implementing the mission in collaboration with the state governments of the respective cities.

[6] The Ministry of Urban Development used a competition-based method as a means for selecting cities for funding.

[7] The state governments were asked to nominate potential cities with the overall count across India limited to 100.

[9][10] Each city will create a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) headed by a CEO to implement the projects under mission.

[16] A hundred cities were supposed to be nominated but Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh did not use one of their allotted slots.