AURANGABAD: A review meeting of all Smart Cities was held on Wednesday by the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) wherein Aurangabad was given instructions to release funds by the urban local body, expedite the implementation projects and complete the MSI project with the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) application at the earliest.
MoHUA secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, Smart Cities Mission director Kunal Kumar, principal secretaries of urban development department of all states and UTs and the CEOs of all smart cities were present during the meeting.
Maharashtra Urban Development principal secretary Mahesh Pathak, Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) commissioner and administrator and Aurangabad Smart City Development Corporation Ltd. (ASCDCL) CEO Astik Kumar Pandey and ASCDCL additional CEO Arun Shinde participated in the meeting through video conferencing.
The central government, state government and local civic body have 50%, 25% and 25% contribution respectively towards the Smart City project. The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is yet to deposit Rs 147 crore as its contribution to the Smart City Project and without its contribution the remaining funds from the Centre and state will not be released.
During the review, the AMC was instructed to release the funds as soon as possible. Pandey informed the central government that the first instalment is ready and the AMC will release its contribution in the next few days.
It was also highlighted that without the ICCC application the Master System Integrator project cannot be used to its optimum and therefore the cities must also implement the project as soon as possible. To this Pandey informed a tender for the ICCC is ready and will be floated at the earliest.
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