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Aurangabad CIDCO is a planned city in Maharashtra state, India.Rafiq Zakaria contested the first election of the newly created Maharashtra state in 1962, from Aurangabad and was elected to Maharashtra assembly. He was made Minister for Urban Development in the new ministry. It was due to his efforts that planning for New Aurangabad was initiated. The responsibility for the new city was given to City and Industrial Development Corporation which started development in the 1970s. Thus Aurangabad CIDCO was conceived and developed into a modern city.New Aurangabad is the second most successful project to be undertaken by CIDCO after Navi Mumbai.New AurangabadPlanned and developed by CIDCO, New Aurangabad was blessed by the Late Prime Minister of India Mrs. Indira Gandhi, who inaugurated the project signing the development plan with the remark: "The plans look very good on paper, let us see how it is implemented". Mrs. Gandhi once visited the project after the implementation of the plan started, and also planted a tree at New Aurangabad, which is nurtured and maintained by CIDCO as a precious treasure.Planned new townNeighbourhoodNew Aurangabad city's localities are named as Neighbourhood-One, Neighbourhood-Two through N-15. The New Aurangabad city has been handed over to the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation. For the rapid industrialization of the city a new industrial area was planned skirting the township at Chikalthana village namely Chikalthana Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation .