New Delhi, March 8 -- Himachal Pradesh PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh has urged Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal Khattar, to reconsider and relax the criteria fixed in the Urban Challenge Fund for city redevelopment.

Singh met Union Minister Khattar in New Delhi on Friday evening.

The Himachal Pradesh Minister requested that criteria be fixed on a 90:10 basis for the State, keeping in view its hilly terrain. He said that due to tough geographical conditions and a small population, the state's cities do not match the criteria fixed in the Urban Challenge Fund.

Vikramaditya Singh informed the Union Minister that the State has launched "one state one portal: citizensewa" under the National Urban Digital Mission. H...