The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has claimed that at least 1,333 projects worth Rs 50,626 crores have been completed or under implementation/tendering under the Smart City Mission. Overall projects worth Rs 2,03,979 crores have been identified for all 99 smart cities across the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to review all flagship schemes including smart cities project by next month.
As per HUA Ministry’s data, smart road projects have been completed in four cities worth Rs 228 crores. Various projects in 40 cities worth Rs 5,123 crores are under implementation or tendering stage. Smart Solar projects in six cities have been completed, while projects in 49 cities are under implementation/tendering.
“Smart Water projects have been completed in 6 cities while projects are under implementation/tendering in 43 cities. Similarly, Smart Waste Water projects in 46 cities have been completed/under implementation/ tendering. The projects under Public Private Partnership worth Rs 734 crores have been completed in 13 cities while projects worth Rs 7,753 crores are under implementation/tendering in 52 cities. Apart from this, other impactful projects like heritage conservation, water front development, public space development etc. have been completed in 13 cities worth Rs 107 crores and projects worth Rs 5,865 crores are under implementation/tendering,” the Ministry said.
“Out of 99 Smart cities which have been selected so far, 91 of them have already incorporated SPVs (Special Purpose Vehicles). At least nine Smart Cities viz. Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam, Bhopal, Pune, Kakinada, Surat and Nagpur have already established Integrated City Command and Control Centres (ICCC). Work is under progress on 14 more and 32 are under tendering stage,” the ministry said in its statement.
Under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, out of State Annual Action Plan(SAAP) size of Rs 77,640 crores, projects worth Rs 65,075 crores (84 per cent) are under various stages of implementation including projects tendered and where detailed project reports have been approved.
Close to 400 projects worth Rs 325 crores have already been completed and for 2,188 projects worth Rs 40,074 crores, contracts have been awarded and are at various stages of implementation. Further, 895 projects costing Rs 13,586 crores are under tendering and for 729 projects costing Rs 10,824 crores DPRs have been approved. Further, 8.58 lakh water tap connections have been provided so far under the Mission and by convergence of other schemes. By the end of the Mission, i.e. June 2020, nearly 1.4 crore water taps will be provided across the country. 37 lakh street lights have been replaced with energy efficient lED lights. Around 322 green spaces and parks projects have been completed under the Mission.
As far as Prime Minister Awas Yojna (Urban) is concerned, a total of Rs 24,475 crores has been released to the States under the scheme. So far, 45.86 lakh houses have been sanctioned under the scheme; out of these 23.43 lakh houses have been grounded and 7.02 lakh houses have been completed so far (including incomplete houses of earlier scheme). Under the PMAY (U), the Government aims to construct around 1.2 crore houses for urban poor by 2022.
The central assistance approved by the UPA Government was to the tune of Rs 20,303 crore for construction of 13.45 lakh houses for the poor, while the NDA Government has approved Rs 70,716 crore for construction of sanctioned 45.86 lakh houses so far, according to the data.