THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI AJAY MAKEN)
(a)to(d): The NCR Planning Board Act, 1985 (Act 2 of 1985) was
enacted by the Parliament with the concurrence of the
Legislatures of Haryana, U.P. & Rajasthan. The Act, 1985
provides for constitution of a Planning Board for the
preparation of a Plan for the development of the National
Capital Region and for coordinating and monitoring the
implementation of such plan for evolving harmonized policies for
the control of landuses and development of infrastructure in the
National Capital Region so as to avoid any haphazard development
of the region and for matters connected therewith and incidental
thereto.
Section 7 of the National Capital Region Planning Board
provides for following two core functions:
- Preparation of Regional Plan, Functional Plans and to
arrange and coordinate preparation of Sub-Regional Plans
and Project Plans.
- To arrange for and oversee the financing of selected
development projects in the National Capital Region
through Central and State Plan funds and other sources of
revenue.
In pursuance of the aforementioned functions, the Board
prepared the Regional Plan-2001 which was notified in January,
1989. The Board had also prepared the Functional Plan on
critical aspects i.e. Functional Plans for Transport, the
Functional Plan on Power, the Functional Plan on
Telecommunications and the Functional Plan on Industry. Two of
the participating States namely, U.P. and Rajasthan had also
prepared their Sub-Regional Plans. For major cities of the
participating States and the National Capital Territory of
Delhi, Master Plan as well as various project plans for
development of infrastructure have been prepared.
NCR Planning Board has prepared the Regional Plan 2021
which was approved by the Board and notified on 17.9.2005. In
the Regional Plan-2021 for NCR excluding NCT-Delhi policies for
development of the Central National Capital Region (CNCR) and
for rest of the NCR have been formulated.
(e): The details of annual budget sanctioned by the Government
of India in respect of NCR Planning Board for the last three
years are as under:
Year Budgetary Grant released to NCRPB
2004-05 Rs.61.70 crore
2005-06 Rs.70.00 crore
2006-07 Rs.75.00 crore
(f)to(h): Infrastructure development in NCR is being undertaken
by the agencies of the central and state governments through
Central and State Plan funds as well as other sources of revenue
including innovative methods like PPP. The financial assistance
given by the NCR Planning Board is only supplementing the
budgetary and other resources available to the participating
state governments and their parastatals for infrastructure
development.
The NCRPB is providing financial assistance for the
infrastructure development projects mainly out of the annual
plan grants received from the Central Government and annual
contribution received from the GNCT of Delhi. The Board
augments its financial resources by recycling repayments of
loans and interest income through a fund viz. `NCRPB Fund` set
up as per the provisions of the NCRPB Act, 1985. The Board has
also raised funds from the capital market in the past to meet
the financing requirement. In this connection, Board had raised
bonds amounting to Rs. 899 crore from the capital market during
the Ninth Plan.
The projects seeking loan assistance are submitted by the
participating state governments and their implementing agencies
and cover wide spectrum of Basic Infrastructure Development,
Sewerage, Drainage and Solid Waste Management, Water Supply,
Transport, Electricity Transmission & Distribution, Hospitals
etc. As on 31st March, 2007, the Board has financed 171
projects with an estimated cost of Rs. 11340 Crore, out of
which an amount of Rs. 3902 Crore has been sanctioned as loan.
The Board has released loans amounting to Rs. 2628 Crore till
31st March, 2007. The total loans released by the Board during
last three years are as under:
(Rs.in crore)
Year Loan released
2004-05 275.72
2005-06 364.95
2006-07 416.46
