Lok Sabha Question No. 1058 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-02-08
Subject: Eco-Friendly City Transport Services
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Raksha Nikhil Khadse

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1058

## TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 08, 2024

## ECO-FRIENDLY CITY TRANSPORT SERVICES

## NO. 1058.  SHRIMATI RAKSHA NIKHIL KHADSE:

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

- (a)     the details of the cities in which the Ecofriendly City Transport Services under the 'Gross Cost Contract Hybrid Model' are being funded by the Government under AMRUT Yojana;
- (b) whether there is any proposal to expand the reach and scope of the scheme in some other Tire-III Cities; and
- (c)
- if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI KAUSHAL KISHORE)

(a)    to  (c)  Atal  Mission  for  Rejuvenation  and  Urban  Transformation (AMRUT) was launched on 25 June 2015 in selected 500 cities (485 cities including 15 merged cities) and towns across the country. The Mission focuses on development  of basic infrastructure, in the selected  cities  and  towns,  in  the  sectors  of  water  supply;  sewerage and  septage  management;  storm  water  drainage;  green  spaces  and parks;  and  non-motorized  urban  transport.  Under  AMRUT  funds  are allocated for non-motorised urban transport which includes provisions for pedestrian pathways, non-motorized and public transport facilities, cycle  tracks,  parking  spaces  etc.  S o  far,  350  projects  worth  ₹1,011 crore  have  been  grounded  of  which  311  projects  worth  ₹810  crore have been completed.

AMRUT 2.0  was  launched  in  October  2021,  with  the  aim  to  provide universal  coverage  of  water  supply  in  all  (about  4,900)  towns/  cities across the country.  Urban  transport  is  not  an  admissible  component under AMRUT 2.0.

However, this Ministry has launched 'PM-eBus Sewa'  with the aim to augment bus operations in more than 100 cities (3-40 lakh population as  per  census  2011)  with  central  assistance  of  ₹  20,000  crore  by deploying  10,000  electric  buses  on  Public  Private  Partnership  (PPP) model (Gross Cost Contract (GCC)).   Based on the response, 3800 ebuses on GCC model for 49 cities have been aggregated for All-India tendering  through  Convergence  Energy  Services  Limited  (CESL)  to help  cities  to  get  a  competitive  rate  for  bus  operation  on  per  km basis. The list of cities is at Annexure-I.

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ANNEXURE I  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (A)  TO  (C)  OF  LOK SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.1058  ANSWERED  ON  FEBRUARY 08, 2024 REGARDING  ECO-FRIENDLY CITY TRANSPORT SERVICES BY SHRIMATI RAKSHA NIKHIL KHADSE

|   Sr.No. | State           | City         |   No. of Buses |
|----------|-----------------|--------------|----------------|
|        1 | Assam           | Guhwati      |            100 |
|        2 | Bihar           | Bhagalpur    |             50 |
|        3 | Bihar           | Darbhanga    |             50 |
|        4 | Bihar           | Gaya         |             50 |
|        5 | Bihar           | Muzaffarpur  |             50 |
|        6 | Bihar           | Patna        |            150 |
|        7 | Bihar           | Purnea       |             50 |
|        8 | Chandigarh      | Chandigarh   |            100 |
|        9 | Gujarat         | Bhavnagar    |            100 |
|       10 | Gujarat         | Gandhi Nagar |             50 |
|       11 | Gujarat         | Jamnagar     |             50 |
|       12 | Gujarat         | Junagadh     |             25 |
|       13 | Gujarat         | Rajkot       |            100 |
|       14 | Gujarat         | Vadodara     |            100 |
|       15 | Haryana         | Gurugram     |            100 |
|       16 | Haryana         | Faridabad    |            100 |
|       17 | Jammu & Kashmir | Jammu        |            100 |
|       18 | Jammu & Kashmir | Srinagar     |            100 |
|       19 | Maharashtra     | Ahmednagar   |             40 |
|       20 | Maharashtra     | Akola        |             50 |
|       21 | Maharashtra     | Amravati     |             50 |

|   22 | Maharashtra   | Bhiwandi                  |   100 |
|------|---------------|---------------------------|-------|
|   23 | Maharashtra   | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar |   100 |
|   24 | Maharashtra   | Chandrapur                |    50 |
|   25 | Maharashtra   | Dhule                     |    38 |
|   26 | Maharashtra   | Ichalkaranji              |    25 |
|   27 | Maharashtra   | Jalgaon                   |    50 |
|   28 | Maharashtra   | Kalyan Dombivli           |   100 |
|   29 | Maharashtra   | Kolhapur                  |   100 |
|   30 | Maharashtra   | Latur                     |    50 |
|   31 | Maharashtra   | MiraBhayandar             |   100 |
|   32 | Maharashtra   | Nagpur                    |   150 |
|   33 | Maharashtra   | Nashik                    |    50 |
|   34 | Maharashtra   | Sangli                    |    50 |
|   35 | Maharashtra   | Solapur                   |   100 |
|   36 | Maharashtra   | Thane                     |   100 |
|   37 | Maharashtra   | Ullhasnagar               |   100 |
|   38 | Maharashtra   | Vasai Virar               |   100 |
|   39 | Meghalaya     | Shillong                  |    50 |
|   40 | Odisha        | Berhampur                 |    50 |
|   41 | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar               |   100 |
|   42 | Odisha        | Cuttack                   |   100 |
|   43 | Odisha        | Rourkela                  |   100 |
|   44 | Odisha        | Sambhalpur                |    50 |
|   45 | Punjab        | Amritsar                  |   100 |
|   46 | Punjab        | Jalandhar                 |    97 |

| 47   | Punjab     | Ludhiana   |   100 |
|------|------------|------------|-------|
| 48   | Punjab     | Patiala    |    50 |
| 49   | Puducherry | Puducherry |    75 |
|      | Total      | 49         |  3800 |