Lok Sabha Question No. 2584 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-08-05
Subject: Amenities to Urban Poor
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN  POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Asked by: OM BIRLA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2584 TO BE ANSWERED ON AUGUST 05, 2015

## AMENITIES TO URBAN POOR

No. 2584

SHRI OM BIRLA:

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

- (a) whether allocated funds are not being properly utilised with regard to providing basic amenities to the urban poor;
- b) if so, the reaction of the Government thereof;
- c) the number and the name of states which have utilised less than 50 per cent amount out of the allocated funds during each of the last three years and the current year; and
- d) the reasons therefor along with the corrective steps being taken by the Government in this regard?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO)

(a) and (b): Utilisation of funds, allocated under Basic Services to the Urban Poor  (BSUP)  and  Integrated  Housing  and  Slum  Development  Programme (IHSDP)- components of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)  and  Rajiv  Awas  Yojana  (RAY)  for  providing  housing  and  other related basic amenities to urban poor, varies from State to State.

(c):  Year-wise  allocation  of  funds  is  not  made  to  States/UTs  under  BSUP, IHSDP and RAY. Funds are released to States as per the progress of projects. There is no State/UT where less than 50 per cent of Central share has been utilised under BSUP and IHSDP. The deails of States/UTs where less than 50 percent  of  total  committed  central  funds  has  been  utilised  under  RAY  are annexed.

(d): Some of the reasons for slow progress in the projects are:

- (i) Difficulties in making slum residents relocate temporarily  in the case of in situ projects;
- (ii) Beneficiaries' reluctance to move on to the new locations in the case of relocation projects,
- (iii) Cost  escalation  due  to  various  factors  and  inability  to  meet  cost escalation; and
- (iv) Availability of litigation free land.

The corrective steps being taken by the Government are as under:

- (i) Government has recently extended the Mission period of JNNURM upto 31.03.2017  for  completing  on-going  work  only  on  the  projects  sanctioned upto  31.03.2012  so  that  the  States  may  utilise  the  funds  allocated  under BSUP  and  IHSDP.  RAY  has  been  discontinued  but  the  183  on-going  RAY projects have been subsumed along with its liabilities under the new Mission Housing for All (HFA) for completion of these projects as per  RAY parameters.
- (ii) States  have  been  advised  during  the  course  of  review  meetings  at Central/Regional and at State level to complete projects according to a timebound action plan within the Mission period as early possible, and to provide additional state share to implementing agencies to meet cost escalation.

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## States / UTs which have utilized less than 50% of allocated central funds during each of the last three years and current year under Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)

| Sl. No.           | Name of the State / UT   | Central Share Approved   | Central Share Released   | Central Share Released (Rs in Crores)   | Central Share Released (Rs in Crores)   | Central Share Released (Rs in Crores)   | Central Share Released (Rs in Crores)   |
|-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| Sl. No.           | Name of the State / UT   | Central Share Approved   | Central Share Released   | 2012-13                                 | 2013-14                                 | 2014-15                                 | Current Year                            |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 77.39                    | 27.77                    | -                        | 12.91                                   | 14.86                                   | -                                       | 1                                       |
| Bihar             | 297.72                   | 114.51                   | -                        | -                                       | 114.51                                  | -                                       | 2                                       |
| Himachal Pradesh  | 27.62                    | 9.21                     | -                        | 9.21                                    | -                                       | -                                       | 3                                       |
| Jammu & Kashmir   | 15.98                    | 6.26                     | -                        | 6.26                                    | -                                       | -                                       | 4                                       |
| Kerala            | 66.06                    | 25.38                    | -                        | 2.32                                    | 11.49                                   | -                                       | 5                                       |
| Mizoram           | 9.49                     | 3.16                     | 3.16                     | -                                       | -                                       | -                                       | 6                                       |
| Nagaland          | 41.68                    | 16.23                    | -                        | -                                       | 16.23                                   | -                                       | 7                                       |
| Orissa            | 290.16                   | 136.26                   | 20.88                    | 32.23                                   | 77.08                                   | -                                       | 8                                       |
| Rajasthan         | 450.07                   | 197.98                   | 18.88                    | 80.09                                   | 87.57                                   | -                                       | 9                                       |
| Tripura           | 77.92                    | 29.97                    | -                        | -                                       | 29.97                                   | -                                       | 10                                      |
| Uttar Pradesh     | 279.22                   | 116.40                   | 11.62                    | 39.36                                   | 65.41                                   | -                                       | 11                                      |