Smart Cities Mission

Smart Cities Mission is an city restoration and retrofitting program by the Govt of Indian with a mission to develop 100 Town all over the country making them resident friendly and sustainable. The Union Ministry of Urban Development is responsible for implementing the mission together with situations government authorities of the respective City. The government of Indian under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a vision of creating 100 smart cities as satellite towns of larger city and by modernizing the current mid-sized city.

The 100 prospective smart Cities were selected by all the states and union areas depending on Stage 1 requirements, prepared smart city plans which were analyzed in stage 2 of competitors for showing priority for city for funding. In the first round of this stage, 20 top scorers were selected for funding during 2015-16. The staying will be asked to make up the inadequacies identified by the Apex Committee in the Ministry of Urban Development for participation in the next two units of competitors. 40 cities each will be selected for funding during the next units of competitors.

Attributes

Smart Cities are estimated to be equipped with basic facilities will offer a good quality of life through smart alternatives. Assured water and power source, cleanliness and solid waste management, efficient city flexibility and trains and buses, robust IT connection, e-governance and resident participation along with safety of its people are some of the likely features of these smart cities.

Smart City Challenge

Given the challenges involved in creating 100 smart cities, only the capable city will be selected under the Smart Cities Mission[www.dreamzresidency.co.in] through a two-stage competitors. This was indicated in the Operation Recommendations for Smart City Mission released by Primary Minister Narendra Modi. The choices requirements used in both the stages of competitors were elaborated in the Recommendations.

In the Stage-1 of City Challenge Competition, each State and Union Territory scored all their city with different set of criteria and nominated the top scorers as per the indicated number of prospective smart city for participation in the Stage-2 of competitors.

Stage 1

The record of nomination marked the first stage in the process of smart city, in which situations government authorities selected potential city and the Centre elevated to your shortlist 100.

The evaluation criterion for Stage1 of competition within the State/UT was as below:

Existing Support Levels: This includes Increase service stages over Census 2011, Online Grievance Redressal System, and Publication of at least first monthly newsletter and online publication of municipal budget expenditure details for the last two financial years on website.

Institutional Systems and CapaCity: This covers imposition of charges for setbacks operating distribution and improvement in inner resource creation over the last three years;

Self-financing: This would be shown in payment of incomes by city local systems up to last month, Audit of accounts up to FY 201213, Contribution of inner earnings to the Provide 2014-15 and Amount of establishment and servicing price of drinking water met through user charges during 2014-15.

Past track record: Amount of JNNURM projects completed which was approved until 2012, Percentage of City level changes achieved under JNNURM and level of capital expenses met from internal resources.

Stage 2

The Govt on 27 Aug 2015 launched the record of nominees for the committed smart city project. The record consists of 98 cities, including many state capitals.

Impact of proposal: To what extent the offer is inclusive in terms of benefits to the poor and deprived, Extent of employment creation, Articulation of quantifiable outcomes depending on resident discussions, Impact on environment etc.

Cost efficiency of Smart City Plan: Application of smart solutions for doing more with less of sources, Alternatives considered enhancing affordability of the offer, tightening up of resources required from various sources, Provision for Operation & Maintenance Costs, IT treatments to improve public service distribution.

Innovation and Scalability: Extent of adopting of best practices in consultation with people, Usefulness of venture to the entire city, Adoption of smart alternatives and Pan City improvements.

Processes followed: Extent of citizen consultations, vulnerable segments like the differently abled, children, elderly etc., ward committees and area sabhas and important citizen groups, Extent of use of social networking and mobile government during citizen consultations and accommodation of contrary comments in the strategy and planning.

The Ministry of Urban Development received suggestions from the 97 city to be recipients of the 1st year funding from 2016 onwards. Minister of Urban Development Venkiah Naidu declared the selected top 20 from among them on 28 Jan 2016. Bhubaneswar topped the record of top 20, followed by Pune and Jaipur. They were elevated to your shortlist by three different panels of experts in accordance with the practicality of the offer, cost-effectiveness, result alignment, resident participation, strategic plan, perspective and goals, among other things.

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DDA Plans Housing Schemes in Dwarka

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) plans to build new housing projects in L Zone Delhi Dwarka. Work on other residential projects is already on in Jasola, Rohini, Narela, Jahangirpuri, Bakkarwala, Kondli and Kalkaji.

After the poor response to its 2014 affordable housing scheme aimed for the middle class and lower middle class - 10,000 houses were returned by the allot tees - the DDA is planning to come up with a new scheme to resell these flats. The owners had given up the flats, most of them one-bedroom units, as they found the rooms too small, a senior DDA official said. The agency then offered these surrendered flats to those in the waiting list. "But the response wasn't encouraging.  That's why we have decided to announce a new scheme," the official said.

Registration for flats to get simpler

The registration of flats sold by the Delhi Development Authority has always been a time-consuming affair, but now looks set to become simpler and shorter. The practice of getting the Collector of Stamps (CoS) to adjudicate on the quantum of stamp duty on land deeds executed by the capital's land agency will be discontinued from March 15, shortening the process of registration by around a fortnight.

The district magistrate of New Delhi, Sanjay Kumar, has informed Arun Goel, vice-chairman of DDA, that requests for adjudication on DDA's various deals with customers will no longer be entertained at the CoS branch at Vikas Sadan. In his letter, Kumar said only in "cases where the DDA feels that the duty on a particular instrument needs adjudication" should an application may be made to the stamp authority.

Every day, around 150 documents linked to DDA deeds involving flats and commercial buildings reach the Collector of Stamps at Chanakyapuri for adjudication. As a practice, whenever DDA has to execute a deed with an allottee or owner of a flat or commercial space, it mandatorily requires the customer to get the CoS to determine the quantum of stamp or transfer duty. It is only after the adjudication and after the stamp authority collects the duty and stamps the documents that DDA executes the deed and permits registration.

Kumar's letter said adjudication under provisions of the Stamp Act, 1860 was meant to be resorted to when "the instrument is of complex nature and the executants are, bona fide, unable to determine the quantum of stamp duty payable". He pointed out that the instruments routinely executed by DDA with its allottees or owners were mostly standard in nature, and Schedule 1A of the Act clearly defined the formula on how the stamp duty was to be determined. The magistrate thus felt that the mandatory adjudication of duty insisted upon by DDA at present should be dispensed with.

As for the government, it is happy to have the allottee/owner pay all duties according to the existing rules, while it expects DDA to conduct standard checks at the time of executing the deed. "When the instrument reaches the sub-registrar for execution, he is in any case duty-bound to check that the stamp duty has been paid in full," explained Kumar. In case the registrar finds that duty paid falls short of the designated amount, he is likely to impound the property and send the owner/allottee to the CoS for repaying the shortfall. 

This modification will save at least 10 days because the allottees/owners will no longer be required to apply for and obtain the final stamped documents from the CoS. As it is there is an unnecessary workload on the skeletal staff of the stamp office, so this step will benefit the CoS staff, freeing them to tackle the more pressing cases of duty evasion and incomplete duty payment.

Delhi – A SMART CITY

On June 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi  unveil the ambitious Rs. 48,000-crore Smart City project. For the Capital, the project is bound to catalyse urbanisation with several “Smart Sub-Cities” expected to come up in the future. The Centre has already cleared the decks for implementation of the project by introducing the “Land Pooling Policy”.

For Delhi, the biggest curse has been unplanned urbanisation. Failure to deal with rampant unauthorised construction along with multiplicity of authority has weakened any remote scope of “development through blueprints”. In fact, the situation is so watertight that the land-owning agency, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), has been unable to acquire a single additional plot for over a decade now. Further, Delhi’s population is expected to increase from 1.82 crore to 2.3 crore in just six years. In such a scenario, the only way is to look beyond the haphazardly developed city and focus on its fringes. The Land Pooling or Land Assembly policy will play a pivotal role here as it would make the concept of unauthorised colonies obsolete by bringing in fundamental changes in acquisition and development of land. It is expected that 20,000-25,000 hectares of land will be unlocked through this policy, thereby resulting in the creation of 24 lakh houses.