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NDMC budget focuses on Smart City, e-governance
The NDMC chairman Naresh Kumar, presented the receipts of Rs 3935.91 crore against Rs 3677.24 crore provided in 2017-18
Updated : Jan 16, 2018, 06:30 AM IST
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Smart City and e-governance remain the two major highlights of the New Delhi Municipal Council's (NDMC) budget for the financial year 2018-19. The NDMC is the civic body catering to Lutyens' Delhi, housing the country's most powerful.
The NDMC chairman Naresh Kumar, presented the receipts of Rs 3935.91 crore against Rs 3677.24 crore provided in 2017-18.
The capital expenditure is projected at Rs 504.39 crore including Rs 66.30 crore in Smart Projects against Rs 315.41 crore in 2017-18.
"NDMC's strategic priorities will be to retain and reinforce its position as one of the most progressive municipal units in terms of sustainability and self-reliance. Hence, the mission and overall goal for the coming financial year will be smart electronic and mobile governance, smart city Initiatives and resource conservation," said Kumar.
Making NDMC area a 100 per cent renewable energy-powered smart city is one of the major goals for the civic body this year.
"It is proposed to move towards running NDMC on 100 per cent clean power in the first phase, wherein coal power of NTPC Dadri will be replaced by bio-mass power from NTPC Dadri while gas power will be sourced from the Delhi unit," he said.
Despite two consecutive budgets centering around Smart City, several projects under the initiative including smart poles, smart parkings and roads, Wi-Fi and making Connaught Place a vehicle-Free' zone are still far from complete.
Smart City is the Prime Minister's flagship project to be worked under the union ministry of urban development (MoUD).
"Various works were conceptualised last year under the smart city mission. Those works are now either completed, or in progress, except for very few which are in the tender stage," said Kumar.
It was also proposed to procure long term 250MW solar power and 200MW hydro power, for which the civic body is to procure 250 MW of solar power from NTPC at the rate of Rs 3.14 per unit, and the plant is likely to be operational by end of the year 2018-19.
"Though NDMC will be fully operational on clean energy, occasional spurt in requirement will be met from power exchange," he added.
