- Report by Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs assesses issues and challenges affecting progress of SCM.
- Key issues highlighted in the report
- Project management and implementation: Frequent changing and dropping of projects, lack of adequate financial progress, and intercity disparity in physical progress of implementation.
- Lack of integrated monitoring mechanism and lack of cross-city learning.
- Lesser emphasis on core infrastructure projects such as social infrastructure, smart energy, etc.
- Governance and capacity: Frequent transfer of Smart City CEOs, lack of defined governance structure and monitoring capacity, and inadequate consultation with public representatives.
- Lack of execution capability in smart cities of Himalayan and North-East region and Small UTs.
- Project management and implementation: Frequent changing and dropping of projects, lack of adequate financial progress, and intercity disparity in physical progress of implementation.
- Recommendations
- Master Plan for Greenfield development should be spearheaded by Union ministry.
- Fixed tenure for CEOs of Smart Cities’ Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
- Third party assessment of SCM projects.
- Launch of Phase II of the SCM covering larger number of cities and areas utilizing experience and expertise of SPVs.
- Emphasize more on Pan City projects focusing on implementing technology-driven solutions for ensuring comprehensive and holistic development.
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