Smart city Puducherry city has emerged as the first
nomination to be received by the Urban Development Ministry for a Smart City
Mission. In this regard, Government of Union Territory of Puducherry has
nominated its capital city for inclusion in the Union Government’s flagship 100
Smart Cities Mission. Chief Secretary of Puducherry has forwarded the
nomination along with all the forms and documents including the details of evaluation
of all the five urban local bodies (ULBs) in the Union Territory as required in
the Stage-1 of 'City Challenge' competition.
The nomination was forwarded based on the recommendations of
the High Powered Steering Committee (HPSC) constituted as per the guidelines of
mission. It was headed by Chief Secretary of UT and had overseen the process of
first stage intra-state competition. For each state and UTs slots assigned for
Smart City are as per the criteria based on equal weightage for urban
population and number of ULBs and the geographical equity. Facts about Stage-1
evaluation criteria of Puducherry Puducherry has a population of 6.5 lakh has
scored 75 of the possible 100 marks in Stage-1 evaluation criteria. Since 2011,
Puducherry Municipal Corporation (PM) has achieved 18 per cent improvement in
provision of household sanitary latrines. Internal revenue generation has
continuously increased by 14 per cent over the past three year period of
2012-13 to 2014-15. It has met 23 per cent of its capital expenditure from
internal resources. It also has met about 80 per cent operation and maintenance
costs of water supply through user charges.
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