Centre extends timeline for implementation of Smart Cities Mission to June 2023

In keeping with an earlier deadline, the cities had been anticipated to finish their tasks inside 5 years of being chosen below the Sensible Cities Mission.

The official mentioned all of the 100 sensible cities chosen below the mission will now have to finish their tasks by June 2023.

Hundred sensible cities had been chosen by 4 rounds of competitors from January 2016 to June 2018. The ministry had launched the Sensible Cities Mission on 25 June 2015.

“The timeline for the implementation of Sensible Cities Mission has been prolonged to June 2023 resulting from COVID pandemic and different causes. Cities which have been chosen in 2016 or 2018 must full their tasks below the mission by June 2023,” the official advised PTI.

Prior to now, the federal government has come below criticism from the opposition over the implementation of the sensible cities mission, one of many flagship programmes of the BJP authorities.

In keeping with the ministry, the target of the Sensible Cities Mission is to advertise cities that present core infrastructure and provides an honest high quality of life to their residents and a clear and sustainable setting by the applying of sensible options.

Lately, the Union Housing and City Affairs Ministry had mentioned that as of November 12, 2021, these Sensible Cities have tendered out 6,452 tasks value ₹1,84,998 crore. Out of those, work orders have been issued in 5,809 tasks value ₹1,56,571 crore and three,131 of these tasks value ₹53,175 crore have been accomplished, it mentioned.

Until the identical interval, the Central authorities has launched ₹27,235 crore to states and Union territories for his or her sensible cities.

In a written reply to a query in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Minister of State for Housing and City Affairs Kaushal Kishore mentioned the interval of implementation of the Sensible Cities Mission has been prolonged as much as June 2023.

Requested whether or not extra cities are being thought-about below the mission in Gujarat, the minister mentioned that presently, there is no such thing as a such proposal into consideration of the Central authorities.