Lok Sabha Question No. 1503 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-10
Subject: Funds under Smart Cities Mission
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1503

## TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 10, 2022

## FUNDS UNDER SMART CITIES MISSION

## NO. 1503. SHRI JASWANT SINGH BHABHOR:

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

- (a) the details of funds allocatedlreleased under the Smart Cities Mission the last five  years for Dahod district of
- Gujarat which is declared as a smart city;
- b) the of the those in progress over there and the names of the schemes likely to be launched by the Government in future for said city along with the details of the inspection conducted in respect of the said
- details with projects;
- whether the smart programmes like Transformation of Urban Landscapes and Conference of Smart Cities CEOs have been organised or likely to be organised in future over there and if SO, the details thereof; and city
- (d) the steps taken or likely to be taken in future for the use of
- rainwater over there under the SCM?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

(a): As per Smart Cities Mission (SCM) Guidelines, Central Government will provide financial support to the extent of % 48,000 crore over five years on an average { 100 crore per city per year. An equal amount on a matching basis will be contributed by the State GovernmentIUrban Local As on 21 January 2022, the Central Government has released % 294 crore for Dahod Smart BodyCity-

- (b): Dahod Smart City Development Limited (DSCDL) is implementing projects including, inter alia, those related to Solid Waste Management, Integrated Command & Control Centre, Water Supply, Underground Drainage, and Slum Re-development, etcThe status of the projects of DSCDL is given below:

Amount in < crore

| DPR Stage       | DPR Stage   | Tender Stage    | Tender Stage   | Work Order Stage   | Work Order Stage   | Work Completed   | Work Completed   | Total           | Total    |
|-----------------|-------------|-----------------|----------------|--------------------|--------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|----------|
| No. of Projects | Amount      | No: of Projects | Amount         | No: of Projects    | Amount             | No. of Projects  | Amount           | No. of Projects | Amount   |
|                 | 92.00       |                 | 275.62         | 11                 | 425.17             |                  | 222.601          | 34              | 1,015.39 |

Source: SCM Geospatial Management Information System (GMIS) as on 21 January 2022)

- (c): Smart Cities Mission programmes like 'transformation of urban landscapes' and sconference of Smart Cities CEOs' have been organized in cities viz. Pune, Bhopal, Lucknow, New Delhi, and Vishakhapatnam in the past At present, there is no plan of the Ministry to organize such Conferencelevents in Dahod Smart City-
- (d): As informed by DSCDL, there are a total 125 Rain Water Harvesting structures in Dahod, developed at a cost of Rs: 6.89 crore: Under this system, the rain water is first filtered before recharging into the ground So as to prevent contamination of the natural aquifer and improve ground water quality-

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