Lok Sabha Question No. 1893 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-22
Subject: Funds for Urban Development Schemes
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Ramcharan Bohra

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOk SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1893 TO BE ANSWERED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 FUNDS FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES

NO.1893. SHRI RAMCHARAN BOHRA:

Will the Minister of HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- the amount of funds allocated and utilised for urban development schemes during the last three years and the
- (a) current year year-wise;
- (b) whether large share of allocations made to the States for urban development remain unspent;
- reasons therefor;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, Statelschemelproject-wise and the
- (d) whether there is any mechanism for monitoring the use of funds allocated to the States and If so, the details thereof;
- the be mechanism; and
- (e) steps takenlto taken for strengthening this
- the steps taken to make urban local bodies more competent and powerful to make demands of funds and its use?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

- (a) to (c) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) facilitates and assists States Union Territories (UTs), through its Missions Schemes in development of cities and towns covered under

them. Funds allocated and released under these urban development Missions Schemes during last three years and current year are at Annex:

Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY), which ended on 31.03.2019 is a Central Sector Scheme and is fully funded by the Central GovernmentIn all other Missions Schemes, apart from the Central Government's assistance, the States UTs Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) beneficiaries contribute as per specific guidelines instructions for completion of the project scheme benefitAlso, all the fund flow is through the concerned State UT Government- In certain cases funds remain unspent as the Central Government released fund or State ULB Beneficiary component; is not fully made available as per the directed scale of fund flow This is pursued closely by the concerned Missions Divisions of the Ministry with the States UTs ULBs-

- (d) & (e) Yes, SirMonitoring of utilization of funds allocated to the States UTs under the Missions Schemes by the respective Divisions is a continuous process and is carried out through institutional frameworks that consist of progress reports, field visits of senior officers, review meetings in States UTs and review through video conferences- It is also done through geotagged Information Technology based Management Information System (MIS):
- In to strengthen capacities of Urban Local Bodies a component for Capacity Building is available under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT): Against the mission target of training 45,000 municipal functionaries, around 54,000 municipal functionaries have been given Capacity Building trainings: Further AMRUT provides incentives to States to undertake reforms across 11 different areasMost of the reforms are targeted to improve capacity and service delivery of the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs):

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Annex

## Annexure referred to in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 1893 regarding *Funds For Urban Development Schemes' for answer on 22 September, 2020

(Amount in Rs. crore\_

| IS.No.   | Name of Mission/Scheme                                                   | 2017-18         | 2017-18        | 2018-19         | 2018-19        | 2019-20              | 2019-20                       | 2020-21           | 2020-21        |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------|----------------|
| IS.No.   | Name of Mission/Scheme                                                   | Funds Allocated | Funds Utilised | Funds Allocated | Funds Utilised | Funds Allocated      | Funds Utilised                | Funds llocated    | Funds Utilised |
|          | Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)           | 4,943           | 4,936          | 6,400           | 6,185          | 6,392                | 6,383                         | 7,300             | 2,619          |
| 2        | Smart Cities Mission (SCM)                                               | 4,540.00        |                | 6,169.03        | 5,935.59       | 3,450.00             | 3,355.99                      | 6,450.00          | 1,252.68       |
| 3_       | Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U)                                      | 2,550.00        | 2,364.48       | 3,000.00        | 2,407.23       | 1,300.00             | 1,212.42                      | 2,300.00          | 445.41         |
| 4        | Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U)                                | 16,642.01       | 16,591.35      | 26,505.00       | 26,143.79      |                      | 21,853.26/21,851.09/18,000.00 |                   | 7,335.7 3      |
| 5_       | Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) | 599.00          | 598.66         | 510.00          | 498.15         | 750.00               | 732.06                        | 795.00            | 339.96         |
| 6_       | North Eastern Region Urban Development Programme (NERUDP)                | 230.00          | 228.15         | 250.00          | 224.64         | 259.98               | 252.40                        | 150.00            | 51.64          |
|          | 10% Lumpsum Scheme *                                                     | 181.85          | 181.85         | 202.00          |                | 156.02               | 139.30                        |                   |                |
| 8_       | Heritage City Development & Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) **              | 130.00          | 108.16         | 161.50          | 150.02         |                      |                               |                   |                |
| 9        | Urban Transport                                                          | 14,000.00       | 13,978.14      | /15,600.00      |                | 14,433.32 [18,890.06 |                               | 20,000.00 3,944.5 |                |