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The authorities should not let the expertise acquired by the Puducherry Smart City Development Limited to dissipate owed to winding up of the Smart City Mission successful Puducherry, erstwhile Member of Parliament and president of the Puducherry Maanila Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam M. Ramadass has said
Mr Ramadass successful a connection said that the decision of the Smart City Mission should not effect successful the nonaccomplishment of the invaluable organization capableness that has been built done the mounting up of PSCDL. The improvement authorization has executed astir ₹ 586 crore task aft the motorboat of the Smart City Mission successful Puducherry, helium said.
“While executing ample and analyzable projects, it has developed sizeable expertise successful task planning, mentation of elaborate task reports, tendering, declaration management, fiscal management, monitoring, evaluation, and coordination among aggregate authorities agencies. The world is that nary specified instauration has truthful acold been created successful Puducherry. It would beryllium unfortunate if the expertise accumulated done PSCDL is allowed to dissipate, helium said.
With a due appreciation of the expertise disposable wrong this agency, the Government should see establishing a imperishable Project Development and Management Agency oregon a specialised Project Management Unit nether the due department.
Recognising the value of specified agencies, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, authorities of India, has advised that Smart City agencies should beryllium repurposed for different developmental functions. The governments of Odisha and Madhya Pradesh person already transformed their Smart City agencies into consultancies.
Such an organisation tin supply nonrecreational enactment to assorted departments successful task formulation, mobilising funds from the Central Government and planetary backing agencies, monitoring task implementation, and evaluating outcomes, the connection added.
