appendix - Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation

Annual Report 2006-2007 

Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 

Government of India

Annual Report 

2006-2007 


Government of India

Table of Contents 

Ministry Ministry of of Housing Housing & & Urban Urban P PPoverty 

P overty Alleviation 

Alleviation 

Annual Annual R RReport 

R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Introduction ....................................................................................................................... I-III 

Administration and Organisation ..................................................................................... IV-VIII 

Schemes Schemes & & & Organisations 

Organisations 

Organisations 

1. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY).............................................................1-6 

2. Revision of National Policy on Urban Street Vendors, 2004 ...........................................6-7 

3. Projects/Schemes for the Development of North Eastern States, 

including Sikkim under 10% Lump-Sum Provision earmarked for this Purpose...............8-10 

4. Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) under JNNURM and Integrated Housing 

and Integrated Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) ............................................11-17 

5. Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) ................................................................... 18 

6. National Slum Development Programme (NSDP) .......................................................... 19 

7. On-Going Slum Improvement Projects Being Implemented with the assistance 

from Department For International Development (DFID) of the 

Govt. of United Kingdom Projects ...........................................................................20-21 

8. Twenty Point Programme-1986 ...............................................................................21-24 

9. National Housing and Habitat Policy ........................................................................... 25 

10. Draft National Urban Housing And Habitat Policy 2006 ................................................ 26 

11. Brief Note on Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing & 

Human Settlements................................................................................................27-29 

12. Two Million Housing Programme (2MHP) ................................................................30-31 

13. Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Scheme (ILCS) .............................................................. 32 

14. Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd (HUDCO) ......................................33-41 

15. Human Settlement Management Institute (HSMI) ......................................................41-46 

16. National Buildings Organisation (NBO) ..................................................................47-57 

17. Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL) ...............................................................................58-60 

18. Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC) ...................................61-77 

19. National Cooperative Housing Federation of India (NCHF) ......................................78-86 

20. Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Orranisation (CGEWHO) ................... 87 

Appendix – I : Organisation Chart ................................................................................. 91 

Appendix – II : Subjects Allocated to the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation .... 92 

Appendix – III : Attached and Subordinate Offices, Public Sector 

Undertakings & Statutory and Autonomous Bodies ..................................... 93 

Appendix – IV : Statement Showing Staff Strength as on 31.12.2006 .................................. 94 

Appendix – V : Department-wise details of outstanding Inspection Reports/ Audit 

Objections as on 03/2006 in respect of M/o Housing and Urban 

Poverty Alleviation and its Attached/Subordinate Offices............................. 94 

Appendix – VI : Summary of Important C&AG Observations .............................................. 95


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Abbreviations 

BMTPC Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council 

BSUP Basic Services to the Urban Poor 

CGEWHO Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation 

DFID Department for International Development 

DWCUA Development of Women and Children in Urban Areas 

DPG Directorate of Public Grievance 

DARPG Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievance 

HPL Hindustan Prefab Ltd. 

HUDCO Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd. 

HUPA Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 

IHSDP Integrated Housing & Slum Development 

JCM Joint Consultative Machinery 

JOLIC Joint Official Language Implementation Committee 

JNNURM Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission 

LCS Low Cost Sanitation 

NBCC National Building Construction Corporation 

NBO National Buildings Organisation 

NCHF National Council of Housing Federation 

NSDP National Slum Development Programme 

PMO Prime Minister’s Office 

SJSRY Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 

UBSP Urban Basic Services for the Poor 

ULB Urban Local Body 

USEP Urban Self Employment Programme 

UWEP Urban Wage Employment Programme 

VAMBAY Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana 



Alleviation

Introduction 

The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation is the apex authority of Government 

of India at the national level for formulation of 

housing policy and programme, review of the 

implementation of the plan scheme, collection 

and dissemination of data on housing, building 

materials/techniques and for adopting general 

measures for reduction of building costs. In 

addition, it is entrusted with implementation of 

the specific programmes of urban employment 

and urban poverty alleviation. In the federal 

structure of the Indian polity, the matters pertaining 

to the housing and urban development have been 

assigned by the Constitution of India to the State 

Governments. The Constitutional 74th 

Amendment Act have further delegated many of 

these functions to the urban local bodies. 

Although these are essentially State subjects but 

the Government of India plays a coordinating 

and monitoring role and also supports these 

programmes through Centrally sponsored 

schemes 

2. The Ministry also plays a nodal role in 

addressing various issues of urban employment 

and poverty alleviation and housing sector by 

formulating policies, providing legislative 

guidance and through sectoral programmes. The 

National Policy issues are decided by this Ministry 

which allocates resources to the State 

Governments through various Centrally 

sponsored schemes. In addition, this Ministry is 

also supporting various external assistance 

programmes for housing, urban employment and 

poverty alleviation in the country as a whole. 

3. Recently, urban sector has witnessed 

major changes on account of our country’s 

transition towards market based economy and 

the spirit of decentralization which is embodied 

in the constitution (74th Amendment Act, 1992). 

In addition, the role of urban sector in economic 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

growth and poverty reduction has undergone 

major change. The need for public private 

partnership is now widely appreciated. In order 

to cope with massive problems that have emerged 

as a result of rapid urban growth, it became 

imperative to draw up a coherent urbanization 

policy/strategy to implement projects in select 

cities on mission mode. 

4. The launch of Jawahar Lal Nehru 

National Urban Renewal Mission with a proposed 

outlay of Rs.5500 crores was first announced by 

the Finance Minister in his Budget proposals of 

28-02-2005. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban 

Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched by the 

Prime Minister of India on 3 rd December, 2005 

with an objective to provide focused attention to 

integrated development of urban infrastructure 

and services in select 63 cities with emphasis on 

urban poor, slum improvement, community toilets/ 

baths, etc. The Mission proposes reforms driven, 

fast track, planned development of identified cities 

with focus on efficiency in urban infrastructure/ 

services delivery mechanism, community 

participation and accountability of Urban Local 

Bodies (ULBs) towards citizens. 

5. The need for Sub-Mission on Basic 

Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) under JNNURM 

arose because urbanisation in India is considered 

as an important determinant of national economic 

growth and poverty reduction. As per 2001 

population census, 285.35 million people reside 

in urban areas. It constitutes 27.8% of the total 

population of the country. In post independence 

era while population of India has grown three 

times, the urban population has grown five times. 

At current rate of growth, urban population in 

India will reach a staggering total of 575 million 

persons by 2030 AD. As per 2001 estimates, the 

slum population is estimated to be 61.8 million. 

The ever increasing number of slum dwellers 

I


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

causes tremendous pressure on urban basic 

services and infrastructure. The supply of land in 

housing have failed to keep pace with increase 

in urban population resulting in large number of 

households without access to basic services, poor 

housing and proliferation of slums and widespread 

poverty. 

6. The core objective of the Mission (JNNURM) is 

to achieve planned urban perspective frameworks 

for a period of 20-25 years (with 5 yearly updates) 

indicating policies, programmes and strategies 

of meeting fund requirements of every identified 

city. It calls upon States/cities to undertake fiscal, 

financial and institutional changes that are 

required to create shelter and basic civic amenities 

for the urban poor. 

7. In addition, the Ministry of HUPA have 

formulated a new scheme of Integrated Housing 

and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) which 

is applicable to all cities and towns as per 2001 

census except those cities which are covered under 

mission cities under JNNURM. This scheme aims 

at combining the existing schemes of VAMBAY 

and NSDP under the new IHSDP scheme for 

having an integrated approach in ameliorating 

the conditions of urban slum dwellers who do not 

possess adequate shelter and reside in dilapidated 

conditions. The components for assistance under 

the scheme will include all slum improvement/ 

upgradation/relocation projects including 

upgradation/new construction of houses and 

infrastructural facilities like water supply and 

sewerage. Allocation of funds among States will 

be on the basis of the States’ urban slum 

population to total urban slum population in the 

country. 

8. The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation is headed by Kumari SeIja, Hon’ble 

Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry 

of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. The 

Hon’ble Minister joined on 24.05.2004. 

9. Shri Ranjit Issar is Secretary in the Ministry of 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation. At present, 

he is assisted by two Joint Secretaries. (i) Sri S.K. 

Singh [Joint Secretary (Housing)] (ii) Dr. P.K. 

Mohanty [Joint Secretary & Mission Director 

(JNNURM)]. 

10. The Ministry of Urban Development and 

Poverty Alleviation was bifurcated into two 

Ministries viz, the Ministry of Urban Development 

and the Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty 

Alleviation vide Presidential Notification No. CD- 

160/2004 dated 27.5.2004. Minisry was 

renamed as Housing and Urban Poverty 

Alleviation vide Cabinet Secretariat Notification 

No. 1/22/1/2006-Cab.vol-II (I), dated 2.6.2006. 

However, work relating to Administration, 

Parliament, Finance, Hindi and Vigilance are 

common to both the Ministries. 

11. Under its administrative control, the Ministry 

of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has one 

attached office, two Public Sector Undertakings 

and three Statutory/Autonomous Bodies. 

12. National Buildings Organisation (NBO) 

is an attached office under the Ministry of Housing 

and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA). It was 

established in 1954 under the then Ministry of 

Works and Housing with the following objectives:- 

(a) collect, document, disseminate the 

information on the latest advances in housing, 

(b) develop housing/buildings statistics and 

conduct studies relating to socio-economic, 

financial and investment aspects of housing. 

NBO was restructured in 1992 and having regard 

to the current requirements under the National 

Housing Policy and various socio-economic and 

statistical functions connected with housing and 

building activities and also to ensure that the plan/ 

schemes of Ministry are properly monitored. 

National Buildings Organisation was again 

restructured in the year 2005. 

II II 




13. The Housing & Urban Development 

Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) was set up as a fully 

owned Government company in April, 1970 with 

a view to provide loans and technical support to 

States and City level agencies and other eligible 

organization for various types of housing activities 

and infrastructure development. 

14. The Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL) is 

engaged mainly in the manufacture of prestressed 

cement concrete poles, railing sleepers, 

water storage tanks, vayutan (light weight auto 

cellular concrete) blocks for insulation, partitions, 

etc. 

15. The Building Materials and Technology 

Promotion Council (BMTPC) undertakes the task 

of extension, dissemination and application of 

innovative technologies and low-cost building 

materials based on industrial and agricultural 

wastes, developed by research institutions. It also 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

encourages development of appropriate 

standards for the new materials and their adoption 

in the schedule and specifications for the public 

housing and construction agencies. 

16. The National Cooperative Housing 

Federation (NCHF) of India set up in 1969 is a 

national level organization (registered society) 

spearheading the entire cooperative housing 

movement in India and is supported by Ministry 

of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation as part 

of the Government’s efforts to encourage 

cooperative housing society in the country. 

17. The Central Government Employees 

Welfare Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) has 

been set up as a registered society under the aegis 

of Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 

for construction of houses for Central Government 

employees. 

A Cooperative Housing Project (Shiksha Enclave Sahakari Greh Nirman Samiti, 

Ghaziabad) 

III 

III


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

I. Administration and Organisation 

Kumari Selja, Minister of State (Independent 

Charge), looks after the affairs of this Ministry. 

She is assisted by Secretary, H&UPA and two Joint 

Secretaries. The distribution of work in the Ministry 

may kindly be seen at Appendix I. 

The subjects allocated to this Ministry are indicated 

in Appendix II. The names of various Attached/ 

Subordinate Offices, Public Sector Underta-kings, 

Autonomous 

Bodies and other 

Offices under this 

Ministry are at Demand Demand No. No. & & & Name Name Plan 

Plan 

Appendix III. 

The group-wise 

staff strength of the 

Secretariat of the 

Ministry may be 

seen at Appendix IV. 

II. BUDGET 

Budget Section is 

responsible for the 

preparation of 

Detailed Demands 

for Grants and Outcome Budget of the Ministry, 

Printing and laying of these documents on the 

Tables of both the Houses of the Parliament. Apart 

from this, the Section attends works relating to 

Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Audit Paras and 

Parliamentary Standing Committee. The Section 

functions under the overall control of the Chief 

Controller of Accounts and Joint Secretary and 

Financial Adviser. 

The allocation of Plan & Non-Plan funds 

pertaining to Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation is incorporated in the Detailed 

Demands for Grants. There is one Detailed 

Demand for Grants pertaining to this Ministry i.e. 

Demand No. 102- Ministry of Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation. 

Demand wise Budget Estimates and Revised 

Estimate 2006-07 (Plan) & (Non-Plan) and Budget 

Estimates 2007-08 for Non-Plan are as under: - 

B BB.E 

B .E .E. .E . 2006-07 2006-07 

R.E R.E. R.E R.E 2006-07 

2006-07 

(Rs in crore) 

Plan Non-Plan Non-Plan Total otal Plan Plan Non-Plan Non-Plan Total otal otal 

1. 1. 

2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 

7. 

Demand Demand No. No. 102 102 - - - Ministry Ministry of of Housing Housing & & Urban Urban P PPoverty 



(a) Revenue 421.67 4.39 426.06 410.00 4.54 414.54 

(b) Capital 0.00 5.61 5.61 0.00 5.33 5.33 

Total otal 421.67 421.67 10.00 10.00 431.67 431.67 410.00 410.00 9.87 9.87 419.87 

419.87 

Demand Demand No. No. 55 55 - - Ministry Ministry of of Housing Housing & & Urban Urban P PPoverty 



B.E .E .E. .E . 2007-08 

2007-08 

Demand Demand No. No. & & Name Name Plan Plan 

Non-Plan Non-Plan 

Total otal 

1. 2. 3. 4. 

(a) Revenue 500.00 4.14 504.14 

(b) Capital 0.00 5.61 5.61 

Total 500.00 9.75 509.75 

The Chief Controller of Accounts (CCA) looks after 

the accounting internal audit and monitoring 

functions for the Ministry as a whole including its 

attached and subordinate offices. CCA formulates 

the revenue receipts interest receipts/recoveries 

and loans and capital receipts. A team consisting 

of two Controllers of Accounts, two Deputy 

Controllers of Accounts, Pay and Accounts 

Officers and supporting staff assists him. In 

addition, all work pertaining to Budget Section 

including Annual Plan and Half Yearly 

Performance Review of Plan Schemes is being 

processed through CCA. 

IV IV 




III. PROGRESSIVE USE OF HINDI 

Sincere efforts have been made by the Ministry to 

promote the use of Hindi in its official work during 

the period under review. Apart from various 

incentive schemes in operation and in compliance 

with the suggestions made in the first meeting of 

the Joint Hindi Salahkar Samiti held on 14th 

February, 2006, the amount of the cash awards 

have been increased to create an atmosphere 

conducive to use of Hindi. Besides this, various 

programmes such as Hindi workshops, Hindi 

week/Fortnight have been organized in the 

Ministry and attached/subordinate offices, PSUs 

and Statutory/Autonomous Bodies under its 

control. 


is sharing the services of Official Language 

Division with Ministry of Urban Development. 

Hence, the Hindi Division caters to the entire 

translation needs of both of the Ministries i.e. 

Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation. The offices 

under control of the Ministry are also having 

adequate translation arrangements. 

Second meeting of the Joint Hindi Salahakar 

Samiti was held under the chairmanship of 

Minister of State (Independent Charge) for 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation on 09 

February, 2007. Members of the Committee 

deliberated upon the status of use of Hindi and 

gave various valuable suggestions for further 

improvement. 

In addition to a Joint Hindi Salahakar Samiti 

another Committee known as Joint Official 

Language Implementation Committee (OLIC) is 

working under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary 

(UD & Admn.) to review the status of use of Hindi 

in both of the Ministries. Regular meetings of this 

Committee are held. The meetings of the OLICs 

of the organizations under the Ministry of Housing 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

& Urban Poverty Alleviation are also held at 

regular intervals and representatives of this 

Ministry take part in these meetings to review the 

use of Official Language Hindi. 

During the year under review the performance of 

the Ministry and its offices in implementing the 

Annual Programme issued by D/o Official 

Language regarding the use of Hindi in official 

work has been satisfactory in almost all the items 

of the programme except that of correspondence 

in Hindi. The percentage of correspondence in 

Hindi by various offices of the Ministry is regularly 

monitored. 

Hindi training 

Ministry is making all efforts to impart Hindi 

training to its non-Hindi knowing employees and 

typists & stenos are being regularly sent for Hindi 

typing/stenography training in a phased manner. 

Creating enabling atmosphere for 

encouraging use of Hindi 

In order to create an enabling atmosphere to 

encourage the use of Hindi, various steps such 

as cash awards, making available popular Hindi 

literature to the employees, provision of bilingual 

facilities in computers etc. have been taken. 

Hindi fortnight was organized jointly in the 


and Ministry of Urban Development in the month 

of September, 2006 and various competitions 

were organized during the period. On this 

occasion an appeal was also released by the 

Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) 

for Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 

making an appeal to all concerned to increase 

the use of Hindi in Official correspondence. 

In addition to this, ‘Vishwa Hindi Divas’ was also 

celebrated on 10 January, 2007 by organizing 

V


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Hindi Noting-Drafting competition and Hindi 

workshops for Hindi speaking and non-Hindi 

speaking officials of both of the Ministries. 

During the year, the Committee of Parliament on 

Official Language inspected various offices under 

the control of the Ministry of Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation to take stock of use of Official 

Language. 

Various offices of the Ministry were visited by the 

officers of the Hindi Division under Inspectioncum-Contact 

Programmme to review their 

progress in the use of Hindi in Official work and 

also to acquaint them with the various provisions 

of Official Language Policy. 

IV. PARLIAMENT MATTERS 

Parliament Section of the Ministry deals with all 

parliamentary matters pertaining to the Ministry 

of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. During 

2006, the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation answered 198 (24 Starred and 174 

Unstarred) Parliament Questions on various 

subjects relating to Housing, Basic Services to the 

Urban Poor (BSUP) and Integrated Housing & 

Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) under 

JNNURM, Urban Poverty Alleviation Programme, 

VAMBAY, Slum Development, Urban Reforms 

Incentive Fund (URIF) etc. 

Annual Reports and Audited Accounts for the Year 

indicated against each of the following 

Organisations were laid on the Table of Lok/Rajya 

Sabha during the year 2006:- 

I. Central Government Employees Welfare 

Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) (2005- 

06) 

II. Building Material and Technology Promotion 

Council (BMTPC) (2005-06) 

III. National Cooperative Housing Federation 

(NCHF) (2005-2006) 

IV. Lakshadweep Building Development Board 

(LBDB) (2004-05) 

V. Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL) (2003-2004 

and 2005-2006) 

V. WELFARE 

Staff Welfare activities in the Ministry and its 

Attached/Subordinate offices continued to receive 

active attention and encouragement. Eight 

Recreation Clubs are functioning for the purpose. 

Players of the Ministry and its Attached and 

Subordinate offices under the aegis of these 

Recreation Clubs participated in the various 

Cultural and Sports activities organised by the 

Central Civil Services Cultural and Sports Board, 

Department of Personnel & Training. 

During the year 2006-07, teams, selected from 

amongst the employees of the Ministry and its 

Attached/Subordinate offices, took part in the 

Inter-Ministry Tournaments / Championships / 

Competitions in Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, 

Carrom, Chess, Cricket, Football, Hockey, 

Kabaddi, Music & Dance and Short Play, Power 

lifting, Table-Tennis, Volley Ball and Weight Lifting 

& Best Physique organised by the CCSCSB. A 

number of sportspersons from the Ministry and its 

Attached/Subordinate offices have also been 

selected for Central Secretariat team(s) to play in 

the All India Civil Services Tournaments/ 

Championships. What is more, in the Inter-Ministry 

Best Physique and Weight Lifting Championship, 

2006-07, the team of the Ministry won 1st position 

in the Best Physique and runners-up in the Weight 

Lifting championship. It is hoped that teams 

representing the Ministry would perform well and 

come up with flying colours, in future sports events 

also. 

The Departmental Canteen of the Ministry is under 

renovation at present. As soon as the renovation 

work is complete the Canteen will function full 

fledged in an efficient manner, catering to the 

requirements of the officers and staff of the 

Ministry. 

VI VI 




VI. J.C.M. 

Follow-up activities by JCM continued to be 

performed satisfactorily. Efforts are being made 

to revive the Departmental Council of the Ministry. 

The matter is under process. 

VII. COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE FOR 

SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF 

WOMEN AT WORK PLACE 

In pursuance of Hon’ble Supreme Court Judgment 

and on the recommendation of the National 

Commission for Women, a Complaints 

Committee to look into the matters of sexual 

harassment of women at work place has been 

formed in the Ministry with the following 

composition: 

1. Ms. S. Aparna, Director (DD) Head 

2. Smt. Lalita Das, Under Secretary Member 

3. Smt. S.P. Munjal, Under Secretary Member 

4. Sh. Mehar Singh,Deputy Secretary Member 

5. Representative from YWCA Member 

This Committee represents the M/o- HUPA as well. 

In so far as the Ministries of UD/HUPA are 

concerned, it is reported that no specific complaint 

of sexual harassment was received by the 

Committee during the year under report. 

VIII. VIGILANCE ACTIVITIES 

DURING 2006-2007 

The Administrative Vigilance Unit of the Ministry 

of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 

functions under the charge of the Additional 

Secretary who is also the Chief Vigilance Officer. 

The Chief Vigilance Officer is assisted by one 

Deputy Chief Vigilance Officer of the rank of 

Director, three Under Secretaries (Vig.) and 

Vigilance Officer of Attached Office of the Ministry 

and also the Chief Vigilance Officers of the Public 

Sector Undertakings and the Autonomous Bodies 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

under the administrative control of this Ministry. 

This Unit is responsible for all matters pertaining 

to vigilance in the Ministry of Housing and Urban 

Poverty Alleviation and its Attached Office, Public 

Sector Undertakings and Autonomous Bodies/ 

Societies, etc. 

Vigilance work comprises preventive, surveillance, 

detection and deterrent punitive action. Under 

preventive action, rules and procedures are 

reviewed from time to time and surprise 

inspections are regularly conducted in sensitive 

areas under this Ministry. As regards surveillance 

and detection, lists of officers of gazetted status 

whose conduct needs to be watched are prepared 

in consultation with the Central Bureau of 

Investigation. Under punitive action, penalties 

prescribed under the Rules are imposed on those 

who are found guilty under the Prevention of 

Corruption Act, 1988. 

In addition to the departmental examination of 

the complaints and investigation reports, the 

Ministry also receives reports from the Central 

Bureau of Investigation about the misconduct of 

officers either for taking departmental action 

against them or for issuing sanction for 

prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption 

Act, 1988. 

In respect of Public Sector Undertakings, this 

Ministry processes cases against Board-level 

officers only. The Autonomous Bodies initiate 

action against their officers themselves. However, 

in case an officer is on deputation to these Bodies 

from Central Government, action is taken by this 


IX. INFORMATION REGARDING 

PUBLIC GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL 

PG Cell has been established in the Ministry with 

a view to deliver responsive and expeditious 

redressal of grievances received from the citizens. 

VII 

VII


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

The Cell functions directly under the charge of 

Director (Public Grievance) and under the 

supervision of Joint Secretary (UD), who is also 

the ‘Director of Grievances’ for Ministry of Urban 

Development and Ministry of Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation, their attached and Subordinate 

Offices, Public Sector Undertakings and 

Autonomous bodies under them. 

Grievances are received from various sources. 

During last one year (1-1-06 to 31-12-06) 

grievances received and disposed of along with 

the sources of grievances are summarized in the 

following chart :- 

Grievances normally arise due to interaction 

between citizen and Government agencies at 

various levels. Feedback of the actual redressal 

of grievances is necessarily to come from agencies 

functioning at the base level as they are fully 

conversant with the subject matter of the grievance 

related to their respective fields of activity. To 

achieve the objective of speedy redressal of the 

public grievances, the grievances are promptly 

forwarded to the concerned offices for further 

necessary action in a time bound manner. 

Depending upon the seriousness of issues raised 

in the grievance petitions, they are followed by 

the Ministry till their final disposal with issue of a 

reasoned and speaking reply by the concerned 

organization. 

Overall position of public grievances received & 

redressed till 31/12/2006 is as under:- 

No. of grievances pending at 

the beginning of the year 

i.e. as on 01/01/2006 : 437 

No. of grievances Received 

till 31/12/2006 : 374 

No. of grievances 

disposed of : 309 

No. of grievances pending 

as on 31/12/2006 : 502 

The Ministry is endeavoring 

to ensure truly effective, 

speedy and early redressal of 

grievances. 

X. OUTSTANDING 

AUDIT OBJECTIONS 

AND INSPECTION 

REPORTS 

Details of outstanding 

Inspection Reports/Audit 

objections as on March, 

2006 in respect of the 

Ministry and its Attached/Subordinate Offices are 

given in Appendix-V. 

Summary of important Audit observations on the 

working of the Ministry, by C&AG, is given in 

Appendix-VI. 

VIII VIII 




SCHEMES & ORGANISATIONS 

1. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 

(SJSRY) 

With a view to provide gainful employment to the 

urban unemployed or underemployed through 

encouraging the setting up of self-employment 

ventures or provision of wage employment, a new 

urban poverty alleviation programme, namely, 

Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) was 

launched on 01.12.1997 after subsuming the 

earlier three Urban Poverty Alleviation Schemes, 

namely Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP), 

Nehru Rojgar Yojana (NRY) and Prime Ministers 

Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme 

(PMI UPEP). 

SJSRY Scheme is being implemented through 

State/UT Governments and it is funded on a 

75:25 basis between the Centre and the States. 

Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) 

consists of two major components, namely- 

(i) The Urban Self Employment Programme 

(USEP) 

(ii) The Urban Wage Employment Programme 

(UWEP) 

1.1 THE URBAN SELF EMPLOYMENT 

PROGRAMME (USEP) 

This Component of SJSRY has three distinct parts: 

(i) Assistance to individual urban poor 

beneficiaries for setting up gainful selfemployment 

ventures. 

(ii) Assistance to groups of urban poor women 

for setting up gainful self-employment 

ventures. This sub-scheme has been titled 

as “The Scheme for Development of 

Women and Children in the Urban Areas 

(DWCUA)”. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

(iii) Training of beneficiaries, potential 

beneficiaries and other persons associated 

with the urban employment programme for 

upgradation and acquisition of vocational 

and entrepreneurial skills. 

COVERAGE 

• The programme is applicable to all urban 

towns in India. 

• The Programme is implemented on a whole 

town basis with special emphasis on urban 

poor clusters. 

• This Programme targets the urban poor, as 

those living below the urban poverty line, 

as defined from time to time by the Planning 

Commission. 

• Since the 10 th Plan, annual targets of 

assisting urban poor for setting up 

individual/group micro-enterprises and 

providing skill training to the urban poor is 

being fixed (Central level as well as Statewise), 

under the Scheme, in commensurate 

with the Budget allocation. 

• Special attention is given to women, 

persons belonging to Scheduled 

Castes/Tribes, disabled persons and 

other such categories as may be indicated 

by the Government from time to time. 

• The percentage of women beneficiaries 

under this programme should not be less 

than 30%. All other conditions being 

equal, women beneficiaries belonging to 

women-headed household, viz., widows, 

divorcees, single women, or even 

households where women are the sole 

earners are ranked higher in priority. 

1


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

• SCs and STs must be benefited at 

least to the extent of the proportion 

of their strength in local population. 

• A provision of 3% should be reserved for 

the disabled. 

• Under the Prime Minister’s New 15-Point 

Programme for the welfare of Minorities, 

15% of the physical and financial targets 

regarding assistance for micro-enterprises 

and skill training under SJSRY have to be 

earmarked for the minority communities. 

• There is no minimum educational 

qualification for beneficiaries under this 

programme. However, to avoid an overlap 

with the Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana 

(PMRY), for self employment component, 

this scheme is not applicable to the persons 

educated beyond the IXth standard. 

• A house-to-house survey for identification 

of genuine beneficiaries is prescribed. Noneconomic 

parameters are also applied to 

the urban poor in addition to the economic 

criteria for the purpose of prioritization within 

the BPL. 

A. Setting up Micro –Enterprises 

(individual) 

Eligibility 

Eligibility 

• Annual family income of less than Rs. 

11850/- at the 1991-92 prices. 

• Must be residing in the town for at least three 

years. 

• Should not be a defaulter to any 

Nationalized Bank/Cooperative Bank 

Project roject Details 

Details 

Maximum unit cost = Rs. 50,000/- 

Subsidy = 15% of the project 

cost subject to a 

maximum of 

Rs. 7500/- 

Margin money to be 

contributed by the 

beneficiaries = 5% of the project cost 

B. Skill Training 

Training cost per person= Rs. 2000/- 

Training period = Two to Six months 

subject to a minimum 

of 300 hours 

Tool Kit worth = Rs. 600/- 

C. Development of Women and Children 

in Urban Areas (DWCUA): 

• DWCUA aims at helping groups of urban 

poor women in taking up self -employment 

ventures. 

• The group may consist of at least 10 

women. 

• The ceiling of subsidy under the scheme is 

Rs. 1.25 lakh or 50% of the cost of the 

project whichever is less. 

D. Thrift & Credit Society (T & CS) 

Where the DWCUA group sets itself up as Thrift 

& Credit Society, in addition to its self employment 

ventures, it will be eligible for an additional grant 

of Rs. 25,000 as revolving fund at the rate of Rs. 

1,000 maximum per member. The fund is meant 

for purposes like purchases of raw materials and 

marketing, infrastructure support, one time 

expense on child care activity, expenses upto Rs. 

500 on travel cost of group members to bank, 

payment of insurance premium for self/spouse/ 

child by maintaining savings for different periods 

by a member and any other expense allowed by 

the State in Group’s interest. The revolving fund 

can be availed by a Group only after one year of 

its formation. 

E. Infrastructure Support 

Special assistance may be provided for setting 

up of community seva kendras which could be 

used for multifarious activities such as work 

places/marketing centres etc. for beneficiaries 

under this programme. 

2 Ministry Ministry of of Housing Housing & & Urban Urban P PPoverty 



1.2 THE URBAN WAGE 

EMPLOYMENT 

(UWEP): 

PROGRAMME 

(i) This component seeks to provide wage 

employment to prospective beneficiaries 

living below the poverty line within the 

jurisdiction of urban local bodies by utilizing 

their labour for construction of socially and 

economically useful public assets. 

(ii) Under this component, there are no 

restrictions on educational qualifications. 

(iii) This programme is implemented only in the 

urban local bodies having population less 

than 5 lakh as per the 1991 Census. 

(iv) The material labour ratio for construction 

works under this component is to be 

maintained at 60:40. 

(v) The prevailing 

minimum wage 

rate, as notified 

from time to time 

for each area, has 

to be paid to 

Central Central F 

F 

beneficiaries under 

this component. 

98.63 98.63 158.47 158.47 118.77 

118.77 

FINANCIAL PROGRESS 

1.3 ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITY 

STRUCTURES (CS) : 

The successful implementation of the Swarna 

Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) relies on 

establishing and promoting community 

organisations and structures to provide supporting 

and facilitating mechanism for local development. 

Towards this end community organisations like 

Neighbourhood Groups (NHGs), Neighbourhood 

Committees (NHCs) and Community 

Development Societies (CDSs) will be set up in 

the target areas. Financial assistance will be 

provided to these community structures for 

effective implementation of the programme and 

also for their social activities of community 

empowerment. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

1.4 INFORMATION, EDUCATION 

AND COMMUNICATION (IEC) 

With a view to play an effective role in coordination 

and in organising training, monitoring, evaluation, 

dissemination of information etc. the component 

of IEC has been evolved under SJSRY. It seeks to 

provide a coordinated and uniform level of 

training across the country for training of trainers, 

elected representatives, functionaries of Urban 

Local Bodies and field functionaries like Project 

Officers, Community Organizers etc. through 

National Training Institutes and selected State 

Training/Field Training Institutes. 

Physical & Financial Progress Under Swarna 

Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) 

Central Funds unds unds released released to to the the States States / / UT UTs UT s under under under SJSR SJSRY SJSR 

(Rs. in cores) 

1997- 1998- 1999- 2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- TOTAL 

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 

118.77 85.13 85.13 85.13 38.31 38.31 100.92 100.92 100.74 100.74 122.01 122.01 155.88 155.88 155.88 978.86 

978.86 

It is pertinent from the above that, since its 

inception, total Central funds released under 

SJSRY upto 2005-06 are Rs. 978.86 Crore. After 

adding to it the unspent balance (Central Share) 

of Rs. 252.10 Crore, available from old UPA 

Programmes of NRY, UBSP and PMIUPEP, the total 

amount becomes Rs. 1230.96 Crore. 

During the current financial year 2006-07 2006-07 2006-07 an 

amount of Rs. Rs. 250.00 250.00 Crore Crore has been allocated 

to the States/UTs for the implementation of Swarna 

Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY). Out of 

this, as on 31.12.2006, Rs. Rs. Rs. 179.60 179.60 Crore Crore has 

been released to the States/UTs. 

3


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

PHYSICAL PROGRESS 

Physical cumulative progress under different 

components of SJSRY, as reported in the QPRs 

from the States/UTs, received upto 31.12.2006, 

31.12.2006, 

is as under: - 

1. 1. Urban Urban Urban Self Self Employment Employment Employment P PProgramme 

P rogramme (USEP) 

(USEP) 

(a) Number of people 

assisted to set up individual 

micro enterprises - 725433 

(b) Number of women assisted 

to set up micro enterprises 

(DWCUA Group 

enterprises). - 201412 

(c) Total number of urban poor 

assisted to set up 

micro-enterprises(a)+(b) - 926845 

(d) Number of people given 

skill development training - 980408 

(e) Number of DWCUA 

Groups formed - 54050 

(f) Number of Thrift & Credit 

Societies formed - 178307 

2. 2. Urban Urban W WWage 

W age Employment Employment P PProgramme 

P rogramme 

(UWEP) 

(UWEP) 

Number of man-days of 

work generated - 586.86 lakhs 

3. 3. 3. Assistance Assistance for for Community Community Structures Structures (CS) 

(CS) 

Number of beneficiaries 

covered under 

Community Structures - 337.40 lakhs 

1.5 EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN 

UNDER SWARNA JAYANTI 

SHAHARI ROZGAR YOJANA 

For alleviating the urban poverty the Ministry of 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation is 

implementing a centrally sponsored programme 

called Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 

(SJSRY) through all the State/Union Territory 

Governments. 

Under the Urban Self Employment Programme 

(USEP) component of Swarna Jayanti Shahari 

Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY), special attention is given 

to women, persons belonging to Scheduled 

Castes/Tribes, disabled persons and other such 

categories as may be indicated by the 

Government from time to time. The percentage 

of women beneficiaries under this programme 

shall not be less than 30%. SCs and STs must be 

benefited at least to the extent of the proportion 

of their strength in the local population. A special 

provision of 3% shall be reserved for the disabled 

under this programme. However, in order to 

extend a special incentive to urban poor women 

living below poverty line, there is a special subcomponent 

called Development of Women & 

Children in Urban Areas (DWCUA) within the 

USEP. Under DWCUA, groups of urban poor 

women are given assistance to take up economic 

activities suited to their skill, training, aptitude and 

local conditions. Besides generation of income it 

is intended to empower the urban poor women 

by making them independent as also providing a 

facilitating atmosphere for self-employment. The 

subsidy is borne by the Central and State 

Governments in the ratio of 75:25. The salient 

features of setting up of micro-enterprises are as 

follows:- 

Maximum unit cost =Rs.50, 000/- 

Subsidy =15% of the project cost 

subject to a maximum 

ceiling of Rs.7500/-. 

DWCU WCU WCUA WCU Groups consisting 

of at least 10 urban 

poor women is eligible for 

subsidy of Rs.1, 25,000 

or 50% of the project 

cost, whichever is less. 




Margin money to 

be Contributed by 

the beneficiaries =5% of the project cost 

Where the DWCUA group sets itself as a Thrift 

and Credit Society in addition to its other 

entrepreneurial activity, the group/Thrift and 

Credit Society is also entitled to a lump sum grant 

of Rs.25,000/- as revolving fund at the maximum 

rate of Rs.1,000/- per member. This revolving 

fund is meant for purchase of raw materials and 

marketing; infrastructure support for income 

generation and other group activities; onetime 

expense on child care activity; incentive subsidy 

to be paid on behalf of the T&CS member towards 

health/life/accident/any other insurance scheme 

for herself, subject to saving at least Rs. 500 in a 

fixed deposit for 12 months with the T&CS; etc. 

Beneficiaries under the USEP are given training 

in a variety of services in manufacture and trades 

as well as in local skills and local crafts trades 

suited to their aptitude and local conditions so 

that they can set up self-employment ventures or 

secure salaried employment with enhanced 

remuneration. The salient features of training are 

as follows:- 

Training cost per Person = Rs. 2000/- 

Training period = Two to Six months 

subject to a 

minimum of 300 

hours. 

Tool ool kit kit worth worth = Rs. Rs. 600/- 

600/- 

Selection of the trades and the institutions who 

can impart the requisite training is to be done by 

the State Nodal Agency/Urban Local Bodies in 

the State. The training institutions may include 

I.T.Is, Poly-Techniques, Shramik Vidyapeeths, 

Engineering Colleges, Building Centres existing 

within the States and other suitable training 

institutions run by Government, private or 

voluntary organizations. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Central fund for implementation of SJSRY is 

released to the State Government/State Nodal 

Agencies who in turn disburse the money to the 

District Urban Development Agencies/the Local 

Bodies. The delivery of inputs under SJSRY is 

through the medium of urban local bodies and 

the community structures such as Community 

Development Societies. Since 1.12.1997, a total 

of 4,04,505 women have been assisted to set up 

self-employment ventures (2,03,093 under USEP 

subsidy subcomponent and 2,01,412 under 

DWCUA subsidy sub-component). Also a total 

of 3,53,578 women have been given training. 

1.6 MAJOR EVENTS DURING THE 

YEAR 2006-2007 

1.6.1 Regional Conference of Ministers/ 

Secretary at Shillong 

A one-day Regional Conference of State 

Ministers/ Secretaries of the North-Eastern States 

including Sikkim on Urban Poverty Alleviation was 

held in Shillong. Meghalaya on 18 th September 

2006. Minister of State (Independent Charge) for 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, inaugurated 

the conference. The conference was attended by 

Ministers and other senior officers from all the 8 

NER States. The conference focused on review of 

various Schemes and Urban Poverty Alleviation 

programme being run by the Ministry in the North 

Eastern region including Sikkim. 

1.6.2 Task Force on Urban Poverty 

Ministry has set up a Task Force on Urban Poverty 

under the chairmanship of Secretary (Housing & 

Urban Poverty Alleviation) comprising members 

from the Planning Commission, representatives 

from selected States, representatives from 

Ministries of Finance, Health, Banking, Human 

Resource Development, representatives from the 

Private Sector, NGOs, academic institutions and 

other stakeholders. The terms of reference of the 

5


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Task Force comprise, inter-alia, an in-depth 

systematic and comprehensive assessment and 

analysis of the issues relating to urban poverty 

and suggesting strategies/ policies at the National 

level to alleviate urban poverty in the country. 

1.6.3 Setting up of National Core Group on 

Urban Poverty 

Ministry has set up a National Core Group on 

Urban Poverty under the chairmanship of Hon’ble 

Minister of State (Independent Charge) for 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation comprising 

distinguished members from the prominent NGOs 

and other stakeholders to look into the issues of 

urban poverty alleviation specially with reference 

to the role of civil society in the formulation of the 

strategies/ policies at the National level to alleviate 

urban poverty in the country. 

A Cooperative Housing Project at Delhi 

2. Revision of 

National Policy on 

Urban Street Vendors 

– 2004 

2.1 Street Vendors constitute an integral part of 

our urban economy. They provide an essential 

service to consumers; they create their own selfemployment 

and at the same time contribute to 

the economic growth of the city but they remain 

insecure and poor. Despite this they have not yet 

been recognized as part of the system and not 

included in the town plans and the municipal 

policies. Therefore, they remain insecure leading 

to increase in poverty and unemployment. Law 

and order problems also increase leading to 

inequalities and disharmony in the cities. 

2.2 To discuss the problems/ issues relating to 

street vendors in detail, a National Workshop on 

Street Vendors was organized by the Ministry of 

Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation in 

collaboration with Self Employed Women 

Association (SEWA) in New Delhi on 29-30 May, 

2001. The Workshop recommended for the 

setting up of a Task Force comprising members 

of the Government of India, State Governments, 

Municipal Bodies, Street Vendors’ Unions and 

experts to look into the various matters of the street 

vendors and suggest guidelines for the State 

Governments and Urban Local Bodies for the 

regulation of street vending in an orderly manner. 

2.3 Accordingly, a Task Force was constituted 

under the Chairmanship of MOS (UDPA). The 

first meeting of the Task Force was held on 10th 

September 2001 at New Delhi. In pursuance of 

the decisions taken in the meeting, all Chief 

Secretaries/ Administrators in the Country 

requested to identify a nodal officer for Street 

Vendors and as forward the State Government’s 




comments/ suggestions on the issue of 

formulating of the National Policy on Street 

Vendors. 

2.4 The Second Meeting of the Task Force was 

held on 19th February, 2002 at Ahmedabad 

under the Chairmanship of Hon’ble Minister of 

State for Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation. 

Based on the recommendations of the Second 

Task Force Meeting, a Drafting Committee, under 

the Chairmanship of Chairman-Cum-Managing 

Director, Housing & Urban Development 

Corporation (HUDCO) was constituted to draft 

the national policy on Street Vendors. The Draft 

National Policy prepared by the Drafting 

Committee was discussed by the Task Force in 

their 3rd Meeting held on 30.9.2002. 

2.5 Draft National Policy on Street Vendors was 

circulated to all States/UTs, concerned Ministries/ 

Departments and other stakeholders soliciting 

their comments. On the basis of the inputs 

received from the States etc., final draft policy 

was prepared and approved by the Cabinet on 

20.1.2004. The State Governments were 

requested for suitable and appropriate adoption 

in overall interest of Urban Street Vendors, with 

or without any change, to suit local conditions 

and also respecting any court decisions which may 

impinge on the issue. 

2.6 A one day National Workshop on street 

vendors for effective implementation of National 

Policy on Urban Street Vendors was organized on 

19th October, 2005 at Vigyan Bhawan, New 

Delhi with a view to remove the hurdles come in 

the way of implementation of the policy. Based 

on the various suggestions received and 

viewpoints put forward by participants, States/UTs 

were requested to take a follow-up- action on 

the action points, which were formulated and 

announced at the end of the workshop and asked 

to furnish the action taken/status through regular 

reports to take a comprehensive look at the actual 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

implementation of the National Policy on Street 

Vendors by the various States/UTs. 

2.7 On the instance of PMO, the National 

Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised 

Sector (NCEUS) has submitted their report & 

recommendation on the national policy 

suggesting some changes in the mechanism of 

the implementation of the policy. The report and 

recommendations of NCEUS was forwarded to 

the State/UT Govt. and some NGOs for their 

comments/views on the recommendation. 

2.8 In order to take a comprehensive view on 

the report & recommendation of NCEUS, one day 

National Seminar on Urban Street Vendors held 

in New Delhi on 12.7.2006.The action points 

emerged from the deliberation were sent to all 

the State/UTs for follow up action. 

2.9 On the basis of the deliberation of the 

Seminar and view points received from various 

stake holders on the report & recommendation 

of NCEUS, the existing policy is being revised to 

make it more suitable and implementable. 

2.10 This Ministry proposes to frame draft model 

legislation on Urban Street Vendors to serve as a 

guideline for State/UT Governments on the basis 

of which they may enact the state legislation to 

protect the interests of the Street Vendors. 

Demonstration Houses under VAMBAY 

constructed by BMTPC at Nagpur, 

Maharashtra 

7


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

3. Projects/Schemes for the Development of 

North Eastern States, including Sikkim under 

10% Lump-sum Provision earmarked for this 

Purpose 

3.1 The then Ministry of Urban Development & 

Poverty Alleviation had organized a conference 

of Ministers of Local Self Governments/Urban 

Development/Housing of North Eastern States 

and Sikkim at Gangtok on 19-20 May, 2001. 

The main objective of the conference was to review 

the progress of Centrally Sponsored Scheme being 

implemented by this Ministry in these States and 

to evolve appropriate strategies for the special 

development needs of the eight States. As a follow 

up action of the conference, a Task Force was 

constituted in the Ministry under the Chairmanship 

of the Union Minister for Urban Development & 

Poverty Alleviation for considering project 

proposals from the State Governments of North 

Eastern Region and Sikkim to be funded out of 

the Non-Lapsable Central Pool Fund meant for 

these States. It may be recalled that a decision 

was taken by the Government of India that 10% 

of the total budget provision for the Ministries/ 

Departments will be spent on the projects/schemes 

of development for the North Eastern Region 

including Sikkim. Funds under this provision are 

non-lapsable and unspent balances under this 

provision in a financial year are pooled up in the 

non-lapsable central fund meant for these States, 

and are governed by the Department of 

Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER). 

3.2 Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation is concerned with the project proposals 

for the North Eastern States in the following 

identified areas: 

i) Housing projects (predominantly for the 

urban poor) 

ii) Poverty alleviation projects 

iii) Slum improvement/upgradation projects 

3.3 Accordingly, the project proposals are 

invited from the State Governments of North 

Eastern Region including Sikkim and considered 

in the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation under the 10% lump sum provision of 

the Budget of the Ministry, placed separately for 

the projects/schemes for the benefit of North 

Eastern Region and Sikkim. During the year 2001- 

02, there was a budget provision of Rs.38 crore 

(Rs.19 crore under Capital Head and Rs.19 crore 

under Revenue Head). As the demand of funds 

for the NER projects was to be met mainly from 

the Capital Head only, at the RE stage, the Capital 

Head was increased by the Ministry of Finance to 

Rs. 33 crore and entire amount of Rs.33 Rs.33 crore 

crore 

was was released released during during the the the year year year 2001-02. 

2001-02. 

3.4 During the year 2002-2003, the total funds 

allocated for the benefits of the projects in 

Northern Eastern Regions and Sikkim, were 

Rs.62.50 crore, out of which an amount of Rs. 

Rs. 

44.17 44.17 crore crore was was released released during during 2002-2003 2002-2003. 

2002-2003 

The balance funds of Rs.18.33 crore were placed 

with the Non-lapsable pool maintained by the 

Department of Development of North Eastern 

Region (DoNER). The total allocated funds could 

not be utilized because of the non-receipt of 

project proposals, complete in all respect, from 

the North Eastern States and Sikkim. 

3.5 During the year 2003-2004, an amount of 

Rs.62.50 crores was provided in the budget for 

the benefit of the projects in North Eastern Regions 

and Sikkim. (Rs.1.00 crore under Revenue Head 




and Rs.61.50 crores under Capital Head). In the 

Second Batch of Supplementary Demands for the 

Grants 2003-04, Rs. 10.50 crore was diverted 

from the Rs. 61.50 crores, to SJSRY for the 

utilization in NER States, so the total allocation at 

the RE stage, under Capital Head, became Rs. 

51.00 crores only. The amount of Rs.1 crore 

available under Revenue Head was utilised under 

VAMBAY Scheme for the North Eastern Region 

and Sikkim. Under Capital Head, total amount 

of Rs. Rs. 51.00 51.00 crore crore was was released released to to to NBCC NBCC in 

in 

2003-2004 

2003-2004. 2003-2004 Out of this Rs. 51.00 crore, only 

Rs. 103.67 lakhs was released for a new project 

in Manipur, and the rest of the amount was second 

instalment for the projects sanctioned to NBCC 

in earlier years. 

3.6 During the financial year 2004-2005, an 

amount of Rs.83.00 crores was provided in the 

Annual Plan, for the benefit of the projects in North 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Eastern Regions and Sikkim (Rs.1.00 crore under 

Revenue Head and Rs.82.00 crores under Capital 

Head). Rs. Rs. 82.00 82.00 82.00 Crore Crore Crore was was released released during during the 

the 

year year 2004-05 2004-05 to BMTPC, NBCC and HPL for 

various new and ongoing projects. During the 

financial year of 2005-06, an amount of Rs. 

50.00 crores was provided in the budget for the 

projects /schemes in the NER including Sikkim. 

At the RE stage, since total Plan budget of the 

Ministry was reduced to Rs. 400 crore, the 

allocation under 10% lumpsum provision was also 

reduced to Rs. 40 crore. However, by then, the 

Ministry has already utilized Rs. Rs. 45.06 45.06 crore 

crore 

during during 2005-2006 2005-2006. 

2005-2006 

3.7. During the current financial year 2006- 

2007, allocation of Rs. 50.00 crore has been 

made for this scheme for ongoing projects. Out 

of this upto December 2006, Rs. Rs. 33.75 33.75 crore 

crore 

has has been been utilized utilized during during during 2006-2007. 

2006-2007. 

Demonstration House at Udaipur, Tripura constructed by BMTPC using bamboo 

based technologies. 

9


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Funds released during 2006-07 (for ongoing projects) under 10% lumpsum provision for 

the development of NER States including Sikkim 

Name Name of of Sl. Sl. Name Name of of the the 

File ile No. No. 

Project roject Fund und Executing 

Executing 

the the State State No. No. No.Projects No. rojects Cost Cost Cost relesed relesed Agency 

Agency 

(Rs.in (Rs.in lakhs) lakhs) (Rs.in (Rs.in (Rs.in lakhs) 

lakhs) 

Mizoram Mizoram 1 Urban Poverty Alleviation 

Programme in Southern 

Mizoram 

K-11019/1/2003-UPAI 1066.69 388.71 NBCC 

2 Urban Poverty Alleviation 

Programme in Northern 

Mizoram 

K-11019/1/2003-UPAI 1029.48 420.64 NBCC 

Sikkim Sikkim 3 Construction of Slum 

Rehabilitation Centre and 

allied facilities at Barfung 

Busty, Ravangala, 

South Sikkim 

K-11019/27/2004-UPAI 1864.79 608.11 NBCC 

Tripura ripura 4 Construction of Shopping 

Complex at Ranir Bazar, 

Agartala, Tripura 

K-11019/06/2003-MIS/UPA-I 537.22 107.44 NBCC 

5 Construction of Shopping 

Complex near New Motor 

stand at Sonamura, Tripura 

K-11019/06/2003-MIS/UPA-I 708.56 283.42 NBCC 

6 Construction of Shopping 

Complex for evicted hawkers 

at Kailashahar Nagar 

Panchayat, Tripura 

K-11019/06/2003-MIS/UPA-I 843.21 337.28 NBCC 

Assam Assam 7 Construction of 4 Storied 

RCC Building for LIG 

K-11019/15/2004-UPA-I 2071.5 828.60 NBCC 

Category at Borsojai, Guwahati 

(Plot area 6945 Sq. m) 

Manipur Manipur 8 Development of urban K-11019/12/2005-UPA I 556.67 200.40 Manipur 

infrastructure at sugnu town State 

9 Up gradation of slums in K-11019/13/2005-UPA I 272.39 98.06 Manipur 

Thoubal Athokapam 

(Part of ward No. 5,6,7of 

Thoubal Municipality 

State 

10 Up gradation of slum at 

Lamdeng ( Ward No.-3,4,5 

and 6 of Lamshang N.P. K-11019/15/2005-UPA I 283.16 101.94 Manipur 

State 

TOTAL AL 3374.60 3374.60 

3374.60 

10 10 10 




Cities and towns of India constitute the world’s 

second largest urban system. They contribute over 

50% of country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 

and are central to economic growth. For these 

cities to realize their full potential and become 

true engines of growth, it is necessary that focused 

attention be given to the improvement of 

infrastructure therein. For achieving this objective, 

a Mission mode approach is essential. 

Accordingly, the Hon’ble Prime Minister has 

launched a Mission named Jawahar Lal Nehru 

National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) on 

3 rd December, 2005. The Mission comprises two 

Sub-Missions – one for Basic Services to the Urban 

Poor (BSUP) implemented by Ministry of HUPA 

and the other for Infrastructure and Governance 

implemented by Ministry of UD. The JNNURM is 

to be implemented in select 63 cities (Table-1). 

Along with JNNURM, two schemes, namely 

Integrated Housing and Slum Development 

Programme (IHSDP) – implemented by Ministry 

of HUPA – and Urban Infrastructure Development 

Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) 

– implemented by Ministry of UD have been 

launched. These two schemes are implemented 

in non-JNNURM cities. The duration of the 

Mission is for 7 years beginning from the year 

2005-2006. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

4. Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) 

under JNNURM and Integrated Housing and 

Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) 

Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of State 

(Independent Charge) for HUPA at Port Blair, 

A&N Island for inauguration of Capacity 

Building Programme under JNNURM on 

January 17-18, 2007 

4.1 Basic Services to the Urban Poor 

(BSUP) 

The Sub-Mission Basic Basic Services Services Services to to the the Urban Urban P PPoor 

P oor 

(BSUP) (BSUP) under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban 

Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has been launched 

with the following objectives:- 

• Focused ocused attention attention to to integrated 

integrated 

• 

development development of of of basic basic services services to to the the the urban 

urban 

poor; 

poor; 

Security Security of of tenure tenure at at affordable affordable affordable price, 

price, 

improved improved housing housing, housing , water water supply supply, supply , sanitation; 

sanitation; 

• Convergence Convergence Convergence of of services services in in fields fields of of 

of 

education, education, health health health and and social social security 

security 

• As As far far as as possible possible providing providing housing housing near 

near 

the the place place of of occupation occupation of of the the the urban urban urban poor 

poor 

• Effective Effective linkage linkage between between asset asset creation 

creation 

and and and asset asset asset management management management to to to ensure ensure efficiency efficiency 

efficiency 

• Scaling Scaling up up delivery delivery delivery of of civic civic amenities amenities and 

and 

provision provision of of utilities utilities with with emphasis emphasis on 

on 

universal universal access access access to to urban urban urban poor poor. poor 

11 

11


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

• Ensuring Ensuring adequate adequate adequate investment investment investment of of funds funds funds to 

to Signing of this tripartite MoA is a necessary 

fulfill fulfill deficiencies deficiencies in in the the basic basic basic services services to 

to 

the the urban urban poor poor. poor 

condition to access Central assistance. 

4.2 Integrated Housing & Slum 

4.1.1Funding 

Development (IHSDP) 

The Central fund is released as Additional Central The Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) 

Assistance (in the form of grant). The financing and the discontinued National Slum Development 

of the projects will be as under: 

Scheme (NSDP) are subsumed in the IHSDP. The 

IHSDP has been launched with 

Category Category of of cities cities 

Cities with 4 million plus 

population as per 2001census 

Cities with million plus but less 

than 4 million population as 

per 2001 census 

Grant Grant 

Central Central Share Share 

50% 

50% 

State/ULB/P 

State/ULB/Parastatal 

State/ULB/P arastatal 

share, share, including 

including 

Beneficiary 

Beneficiary 

contribution 

contribution 

50% 

50% 

the objective to strive for 

holistic slum development, 

with a healthy and enabling 

urban environment by 

providing adequate shelter 

and basic infrastructure 

facilities to the slum dwellers 

of the identified urban areas. 

Cities/towns in North Eastern 

States and Jammu & Kashmir 

90% 10% 

Other Cities 80% 20% 

A City Development Plan is required before the 

city can access Mission funds. The State 

Governments and the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)/ 

Parastatals are required to execute a 

Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with 

Government of India indicating their commitment 

to implement the identified reforms (Annexure Annexure Annexure-I Annexure -I -I). -I 

Building Structure demonstrating the use 

of Bamboo in Housing Construction in 

North Eastern States for JNNURM 

4.2.1 Funding 

The sharing of funds under 

IHSDP is in the ratio of 80:20 

between Central Government 

and State Government/ULB/ 

Parastatals. For special category States, the 

funding pattern between Centre and States will 

be in the ratio of 90:10. The Central fund will 

be released as Additional Central Assistance 

(grant). As in the case of BSUP, signing of a 

tripartite MoA is a necessary condition to access 

Central assistance. 

4.3 Beneficiaries under BSUP and IHSDP 

The targeted beneficiaries under BSUP and IHSDP 

are slum dwellers/urban poor. While a minimum 

12% beneficiary contribution is stipulated under 

BSUP and IHSDP, in the case of SC/ST/OBC and 

other weaker sections it is 10%. 

4.4 Special feature of integrated 

development of slums 

Both under BSUP and IHSDP emphasis is given 

for integrated development of slums through 

projects for providing shelter, basic services and 

other related civic amenities with a view to provide 

12 12 12 




utilities to the urban poor. Accordingly, the 

approved projects include physical amenities and 

related infrastructure such as water supply, 

sewerage, storm water drain, roads, multi-purpose 

community centres, parks, etc. 

4.5 Financial & Physical Progress (Year 

2006-07): 

Actual Actual P PProgress 

P rogress up up to to end end end of of of December December December, December 

2006 

2006 

Financial inancial 

Total otal otal Total otal otal P PProject 

P roject Central Central Ist Ist ACA CA 

Number Number of of of Cost Cost Cost Share Share instalment instalment released released 

released 

projects projects (Rs. (Rs. In In crore) crore) (Rs. (Rs. (Rs. In In crore) crore) of of Central Central (Rs. (Rs. In In crore) 

crore) 

approved approved 

Share 

Share 

(Rs. (Rs. In In crore) crore) 

crore) 

BSUP BSUP 93 6,532.55 3,343.19 835.80 394.87 

IHSDP IHSDP 101 1,161.06 817.04 408.52 Nil 

Physical Physical 

Physical 

Total otal Number Number of of Total otal number number of of Total otal number number of 


new new dwelling dwelling units units dwelling dwelling units units dwelling dwelling units units approved approved 

approved 

approved approved for for approved approved for for for for construction 

construction 

constrution constrution 

upgradation upgradation /upgradation 

/upgradation 

BSUP BSUP 2,98,270 00 2,98,270 

IHSDP IHSDP 73,256 2321 75,577 

4.6 Approval of projects under BSUP and 

IHSDP are dependent on the Detailed 

Project Reports submitted by States/ 

UTs. 

BSUP BSUP P PProjects 

P rojects At At a a Glance Glance Glance (since (since inception) 

inception) 

Number of Projects Approved : 102 

Total approved project cost : Rs.7,231.49 crore 

Approved Central Share 

Ist instalment 

: Rs.3,692.52 crore 

(25% of Central Share) : Rs.923.13 crore 

Central Share (ACA) released : Rs.467.02 crore 

Number of Cities covered : 26 

Number of States : 11 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

IHSDP IHSDP P PProjects 

P rojects At At a a Glance Glance (since (since (since inception) 

inception) 

Number of Projects 

Approved/cities covered : 104 

Total approved project cost : Rs.1,170.08 crore 

Approved Central Share 

Ist instalment 

: Rs.540.15 crore 

(50% of Central Share) : Rs.208.22 crore 

Central Share (ACA) released : 0 

Number of States : 10 

13 

13


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

4.7 Other initiatives of the Ministry of 

HUPA for implementation of BSUP 

and IHSDP 

• Regional workshops on capacity building 

of ULB officials organised (all Regions) 

• Meeting held with State Ministers of Urban 

Development and Secretaries of NER States 

• Model DPR document circulated to all 

States, followed up with orientation & 

training programmes 

• Eight technical groups to assist ULBs in 

formulation of projects 

• Study on estimation of housing shortage 

undertaken 

• Land Tenure & Slum policy under finalisation 

• Urban Street Vendors policy under revision 

in consultation with State Governments; 

model Act to follow 

List of Identified Cities/Urban Agglomerations (UAs) 

under Sub-Mission on Basic Services to the Urban Poor(BSUP) 

Sl.No. Sl.No. City City 

Name Name Name of of the the State State State 

Population opulation (in (in lakh) 

lakh) 

a) a) Mega Mega Cities/Uas 

Cities/Uas 

1. Delhi Delhi 128.77 

2. Greater Mumbai Maharashtra 164.34 

3. Ahmedabad Gujarat 45.25 

4. Bangalore Karnataka 57.01 

5. Chennai Tamil Nadu 65.60 

6. Kolkata West Bengal 132.06 

7. Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh 57.42 

b) b) Million-plus Million-plus Cities/Uas 

Cities/Uas 

1. Patna Bihar 16.98 

2. Faridabad Haryana 10.56 

3. Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 14.58 

4. Ludhiana Punjab 13.98 

5. Jaipur Rajasthan 23.27 

6. Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 22.46 

7. Madurai Tamil Nadu 12.03 

8. Nashik Maharashtra 11.52 

9. Pune Maharashtra 37.60 

10. Cochin Kerala 13.55 

11. Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 12.04 

12. Agra Uttar Pradesh 13.31 

13. Amritsar Punjab 10.03 

14. Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh 13.45 

15. Vadodara Gujarat 14.91 

16. Surat Gujarat 28.11 

17. Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 27.15 

18. Nagpur Maharashtra 21.29 

19. Coimbatore Tamil Nadu 14.61 

20. Meerut Uttar Pradesh 11.61 

21. Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh 10.98 

22. Jamshedpur Jharkhand 11.04 


Name Name Name of of of the the the State State State 

Population opulation (in (in lakh) lakh) 

lakh) 

23. Asansol West Bengal 10.67 

24. Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 10.42 

25. Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh 10.39 

26. Rajkot Gujarat 10.03 

Table-I 

14 14 14 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 


Name Name of of the the the State State 

Population opulation (in (in lakh) 

lakh) 

27. Dhanbad Jharkhand 10.65 

28. Indore Madhya Pradesh 16.40 

c) c) Identified Identified cities/U cities/UAs cities/U As with with less less than than than one one million million million population 

population 

1. Guwahati Assam 8.19 

2. Itanagar Arunachal Pradesh 0.35 

3. Jammu Jammu & Kashmir 6.12 

4. Raipur Chhattisgarh 7.00 

5. Panaji Goa 0.99 

6. Shimla Himachal Pradesh 1.45 

7. Ranchi Jharkhand 8.63 

8. Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 8.90 

9. Imphal Manipur 2.50 

10. Shillong Meghalaya 2.68 

11. Aizawal Mizoram 2.28 

12. Kohima Nagaland 0.77 

13. Bhubaneswar Orissa 6.58 

14. Gangtok Sikkim 0.29 

15. Agartala Tripura 1.90 

16. Dehradun Uttaranchal 5.30 

17. Bodh Gaya Bihar 3.94 

18. Ujjain Madhya Pradesh 4.31 

19. Puri Orissa 1.57 

20. Ajmer-Pushkar Rajasthan 5.04 

21. Nainital Uttaranchal 2.20 

22. Mysore Karnataka 7.99 

23. Pondicherry Pondicherry 5.05 

24. Chandigarh Punjab & Haryana 8.08 

25. Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir 9.88 

26. Haridwar Uttaranchal 2.21 

27. Mathura Uttar Pradesh 3.23 

28. Nanded Maharashtra 4.31 

All State Capitals and Capitals of two Union Territories with Legislatures are proposed to be covered. 

The National Steering Group may add or delete cities/towns under category-C other than State capitals. However, the total 

number of category-C cities under JNNURM will be kept at a reasonable level. 

Mass Housing for Urban Poor by utilizing cost effective building materials and 

construction technologies will get a boost through IHSDP scheme 

15 

15


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

URBAN REFORMS 

Urban reforms may include: 

Mandatory Reforms : 

ANNEXURE—I 

Urban Local Body Reforms (at ULB Level) 

i) Adoption of modern, accrual-based double entry system of accounting in Urban Local Bodies. 

ii) Introduction of system of e-governance using IT applications like GIS and MIS for various 

services provided by ULBs. 

iii) Reform of property tax with GIS, so that it becomes major source of revenue for Urban Local 

Bodies (ULBs) and arrangements for its effective implementation so that collection efficiency 

reaches at least 85% within the the the Mission Mission Mission period. 

period. 

iv) Levy of reasonable user charges by ULBs/Parastatals with the objective that full cost of operation 

and maintenance is collected within the the Mission Mission period period. period However, cities/towns in North East 

and other special category States may recover at least 50% of operation and maintenance 

charges initially. These cities/towns should graduate to full O&M cost recovery in a phased 

manner. 

v) Internal earmarking within local body budgets for basic services to the urban poor. 

vi) Provision of basic services to urban poor including security of tenure at affordable prices, 

improved housing, water supply, sanitation and ensuring delivery of other already existing universal 

services of the government for education, health and social security. 

State Level Reforms: 

i) Implementation of decentralization measures as envisaged in Seventy Fourth Constitutional 

Amendment. States should ensure meaningful association/engagement of ULBs in planning 

function of Parastatals as well as delivery of services to the citizens. 

ii) Rationalisation of Stamp Duty to bring it down to no more than 5% within the the Mission Mission period period. period 

iii) Enactment of community participation law to institutionalize citizen participation and introducing 

the concept of the Area Sabha in urban areas. 

iv) Assigning or associating elected ULBs into “city planning function” over a period of five years; 

transferring all special agencies that deliver civic services in urban areas and creating 

accountability platforms for all urban civic service providers in transition. 

OPTIONAL REFORMS 

i) Repeal of Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act. 

ii) Amendment of Rent Control Laws balancing the interest of landlords and tenants. 

iii) Enactment of Public Disclosure Law to ensure preparation of medium-term fiscal plan of ULBs 

and release of quarterly performance information to all stakeholders. 

iv) Revision of bye-laws to streamline the approval process for construction of buildings, development 

of sites, etc. 

v) Simplification of legal and procedural frameworks for conversion of agricultural land for nonagricultural 

purposes. 

16 16 16 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

vi) Introduction of Property Title Certification System in ULBs. 

vii) Earmarking at least 20-25% of developed land in all housing projects (both Public and Private 

Agencies) for EWS/LIG category with a system of cross subsidization. 

viii) Introduction of computerized process of registration of land and property. 

ix) Revision of bye-laws to make rain water harvesting mandatory in all buildings to come up in 

future and for adoption of water conservation measures. 

x) Bye-laws on reuse of recycled water. 

xi) Administrative reforms, i.e., reduction in establishment by bringing out voluntary retirement 

schemes, non-filling up of posts falling vacant due to retirement etc., and achieving specified 

milestones in this regard. 

xii) Structural reforms 

xiii) Encouraging Public-Private partnership. 

NO NOTE NO TE TE: TE States/ULBs will be required to implement all the Mandatory Reforms and Optional Reforms 

within the Mission period. The States/ULBs need to choose at least two Optional Reforms each year 

for implementation. The details of reforms which have already been implemented and/or proposed to 

be taken up should be included in the detailed project reports. 

Urban Reforms through Public Private Partnership 

17 

17


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

5. Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana 

(VAMBAY) 

The then Hon’ble Prime Minister announced on 

Independence Day, 2001, from the ramparts of 

the Red Fort, a new Centrally sponsored scheme 

called Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) 

with a view to ameliorating the conditions of the 

urban slum dwellers living below the poverty line 

who do not possess adequate shelter. The 

scheme has the primary objective to facilitate the 

construction and upgradation of the dwelling units 

for the slum dwellers and to provide health and 

enabling urban environment through community 

toilets under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a component 

of the scheme. This scheme was formally 

launched by the then Hon’ble Prime Minister 

himself on 2 nd December 2001, at Hyderabad. 

This is the first scheme of its kind meant exclusively 

for slum dwellers with a Government of India 

subsidy of 50 per cent; the balance 50 per cent 

to be arranged by the State Government with 

ceiling costs prescribed both for dwelling units/ 

community toilets. The State’s share may consist 

of funds from any source in the form of subsidy or 

loan from Housing and Urban Development 

Corporation Limited (HUDCO) or any other 

agency. The guidelines of the scheme provides 

for submission of proposals by the nodal agencies 

of State Governments to HUDCO who, in turn, 

process and forward them to this Ministry with 

their recommendations. The funds are released 

by this Ministry only after a VAMBAY account is 

opened by the State Nodal Agency and the share 

of the State/Union Territory Government is 

deposited in that account. 

2. Details of Allocation and Releases of funds 

are as under: - 

Year ear Allocation Allocation GOI GOI subsidy subsidy GOI GOI Subsidy Subsidy Net Net R RReleases 

R eleases No. No. of of DUs DUs DUs No. No. of of TSs 

TSs 

(Rs. (Rs. in in L LLakhs) 

L akhs) released released released refunded refunded (3-4) (3-4) targeted targeted for for targeted targeted for 

for 

(Rs. (Rs. in in L LLakhs) 

L akhs) (Rs. (Rs. in in L LLakhs) 

L akhs) (Rs. (Rs. in in L LLakhs) 

L akhs) construction/ construction/ construction 

construction 

upgradation 

upgradation 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

2001-02 6900.00 7356.000 488.650 6867.350 25150 4342 

2002-03 25685.01 21835.030 2505.745 19329.285 105449 21393 

2003-04 23850.00 23854.600 39.035 23815.565 108160 3090 

2004-05 28058.00 26941.161 0.000 26941.161 112143 35086 

2005-06 24900.00 16713.420 311.600 16401.820 89772 1420 

2006-07* 7501.00 325.080* 0.000 325.800* 18025 0 

Total otal otal 116894.01 

116894.01 116894.01 97025.291 97025.291 3345.030 3345.030 93680.981 93680.981 458699 458699 458699 65331 

65331 

Note – * indicates position upto December, 2006 & the Govt. of India subsidy sanctioned. 

3. VAMBAY and the discontinued National 

Slum Development Programme (NSDP) have been 

subsumed in a new scheme called Integrated 

Housing and Slum Development Programme 

(IHSDP). This scheme was launched along with 

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal 

Mission (JNNURM) by the Hon’ble Prime Minister 

on 3 rd December 2005. IHSDP aims at having 

an integrated approach to ameliorate the 

conditions of the urban slum dwellers who do not 

possess adequate shelter and reside in dilapidated 

conditions. 

4 . The scheme is applicable to all cities and 

towns as per 2001 Census except cities/towns 

covered under JNNURM. 

5. IHSDP is funded on 80:20 basis between 

Central Government and State Government/ ULB/ 

Parastatals and 90:10 basis between Central 

Government and Special category States. 

18 18 18 




6. National Slum Development 

Programme 

The National Slum Development Programme 

(NSDP) was inaugurated and launched by the 

Prime Minister in August, 1996 at Kanpur in (U.P.). 

Under National Slum Development Programme, 

Additional Central Assistance (ACA) was being 

released to the States/UTs for the development of 

urban slums. The objective of this programme 

was upgradation of urban slums by providing 

physical amenities like water supply, storm water 

drains, community bath, widening and paving of 

existing lanes, sewers, community latrines, street 

lights etc. Besides, the funds under NSDP could 

be used for provision of community infrastructure 

and social amenities like pre school education, 

non formal education adult education, maternity, 

child health and primary health care including 

immunization etc. The programme also had a 

component of shelter up gradation or construction 

of new houses. 

Under the programme, funds in the form of 

Additional Central Assistance (ACA) were 

allocated by the Planning Commission annually 

on the basis of slum population of the State/UT. 

While the Ministry of Finance released the funds 

to the States under this Programme, the Ministry 

of Home Affairs released the funds to Union 

Territories. The States released the funds to the 

Implementing Agencies as per their requirements. 


Alleviation had been nominated as the Nodal 

Ministry to monitor the progress of the programme 

in respect of States. 

During the years 1996-97 to 2004-2005, a total 

amount of Rs. 3089.63 crores was released to 

the States and UTs under this programme as 

indicated below:- 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Sl. Sl. Year ear Amount Amount R RReleased 

R eleased 

No. No. 

(Rs. (Rs. in in crores.) 

crores.) 

1 1996-97 250.01 

2. 1997-98 290.99 

3. 1998-99 351.63 

4. 1999-2000 384.96 

5 2000-2001 247.34 

6 2001-2002 282.40 

7 2002-2003 333.44 

8 2003-2004 335.08 

9 2004-2005 613.78 

Total otal 3089.63 3089.63 

3089.63 

NSDP has since been discontinued from the 

financial year 2005-06. 

As reported by the States/UTs, since the inception 

of the programme and upto 28-12-2006 28-12-2006 out of 

the total funds of Rs.3089.63 Rs.3089.63 crore released by 

the Central Government, an amount of Rs. 

Rs. 

2512.39 2512.39 crore has been spent and about 4.60 

4.60 

crores of slum dwellers, covering 69333 69333 slum 

pockets in 2586 2586 2586 towns, have benefited from this 

programme. 


constructed by BMTPC at Dehradun, 

Uttranchal 

19 

19


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

7. On-going Slum Improvement Projects 

being Implemented with the Assistance from 

Department for International Development 

(DFID) of the Govt. of United Kingdom 

Projects 

7.1. Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for the 

Poor (APUSP) 

Objectives:- Objectives:- This project is intended to bring about 

more effective urban poverty reduction through 

the convergence and developing existing poverty 

alleviation schemes in three programme areas 

(economic, environmental and social). The 

project will introduce a number of carefully 

selected innovations in each of the three 

programme area to meet identified gaps and 

opportunities. The project will, thus, ensure 

greater impact on the poor by focusing on:a) 

better complementary within and between 

the programme areas 

b) more effective management of resources; 

c) improving and adapting forms of service 

provisions; 

d) better access to the range of government 

schemes through community based 

organizations. 

Project roject Components Components - - There are following three 

components in the project: 

C1 Component - Municipal Reforms – Revenue 

improvement, Institutional Development, 

Capacity Building. 

C2 Component - Environmental infrastructure 

– Water supply, Drainage, Roads and 

Footpaths, Solid Waste Management, street 

lighting. 

C3 Component - Working with Civil Society - 

Health, Education, livelihoods, Vulnerable 

groups, SHGs, Capacity building 

Duration Duration of of of the the P PProject 

P roject – The project period is 

from June, 1999 to 31.3.2008. 

Cost Cost of of the the P PProject 

P roject – Under this project, DFID will 

provide Rs.745.39 crore. The budget comprises 

71% financial aid and 29% technical assistance. 

Coverage Coverage – 42 class I cities of Andhra Pradesh 

7.2. Kolkata Urban Service for the Poor 

Programme (KUSP) 

Objectives:- Objectives:- The KUSP programme aimed at; 

improving urban planning and governance; 

access to basic services for the poor and 

promoting economic growth in the Kolkata 

Metropolitan Areas(KMA). The project will 

support provision of infrastructure in slums, fill 

critical infrastructure gaps at the town level and 

in some cases also support infrastructure that serve 

two or more municipalities. In addition, the project 

will support process of economic visioning and 

planning involving the formal and informal 

business sectors and also capacity building of 

municipalities and state level agencies. 


P roject roject:- roject Under this project, DFID will 

provide £102,000,000.00 

Duration Duration of of the the project project:- project Project duration is from 

14.1.2004 to 31.3.2011. 

7.3. Madhya Pradesh Urban Services for the 

Poor (MPUSP) 

Objective:- Objective:- Objective:- The Madhya Pradesh Urban Services 

for the Poor Programme (MPUSP) seeking DFID 

assistance of £41 million pounds will be focused 

on 4 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) i.e. Bhopal, 

20 20 20 




Indore, Jabalpur and Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh. 

MPUSP programme will enhance capacity and 

strengthen institutional systems of the state to 

deliver sustainable access to quality services for 

the urban poor. This will support the overall goal 

of sustainable poverty reduction and economic 

growth in Madhya Pradesh (MP). 

Duration Duration of of of the the the P PProject 

P Project 

roject – The project period is 

from 1.9.2006 to 31.12.2011. 


P roject – Under this project, DFID will 

provide £41 million. 

Coverage Coverage – Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur and 

Gwalior 

The MoU of this project has just singed on 

13.11.2006 and the project is at preliminary 

stage. 

Jibandeep Cooperative Housing Society, 

Siliguri, West Bengal 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

8. Twenty Point 

Programme - 1986 

The 20-Point Programme envisages the nation’s 

commitment to eradicate poverty, reduce income 

disparity, socio-economic inequalities and also 

to provide basic amenities, including housing, 

for improving the quality of life of the poor and 

other weaker sections of the society. 


Alleviation is the nodal Ministry to monitor the 

following points:- 

• 14(d) - Economically Weaker Section 

(EWS) Housing 

• 14(e) - Low Income Group (LIG) Housing 

and 

• 15(EIUS)- Environment Improvement of 

Urban Slums 

The Ministry in consultation with the States/Union 

Territories fixes the physical targets in respect of 

the points mentioned above and monitors the 

progress made by them. The States/Union 

Territories are required to furnish progress reports 

on Monthly/Half Yearly and Annual basis to this 

Ministry. The physical monitoring is done by 

obtaining periodical reports from them. Besides 

this, two evaluatory items namely ‘use of low cost 

building material’ under Point 14 and ‘restricting 

growth of urban slums’ under Point 15 are also 

monitored. 

Based on the information received from various 

States/Union Territories, it has been observed that 

the level of performance varies in matters of 

physical achievements. The low level of 

performance in housing sectors can be attributed 

to inadequate Budget provision, land acquisition 

problem, difficulty in providing services, 

inadequate access to institutional finance, 

shortage of building materials/resources, rising 

21 

21


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

cost of construction, etc. 


Alleviation does not provide the funds for the 

above mentioned schemes under the Twenty Point 

programme. 

14(d)- Economically Weaker Section(EWS) 

Housing 

Investments for EWS housing are made by the 

State Governments and UT Administrations 

through provision made under their Plans. This 

is supplemented by loans from Institutional 

finance. Refinance is also available from the 

National Housing Bank to States, HUDCO, 

Cooperatives and other Organizations involved 

in the construction of EWS Housing. 

During the year 2006-07, 22960 dwelling units 

have been constructed upto August, 2006 against 

the annual targets of 114181 dwelling units 

(Annexure-A). 

14(e)-Low Income Group(LIG) Housing 

This scheme is long term in nature and is being 

executed by the State Governments/Union 

Territories through Housing Boards and Housing 

Departments. The Budget provisions are made 

under the States/Uts Plans and are supplemented 

by institutional finance. 

During the year 2006-07, 2251 dwelling units 

have been constructed upto August, 2006 against 

the annual targets of 24003 dwelling units 

(Annexure-B). 

8.1 Point No. 15 (EIUS) - Environmental 

Improvement of Urban Slums 

The objective of the scheme is to ensure 

environmental improvement of urban slums by 

extending basic infrastructure in the peripheral 

dwelling units. Under this scheme, State 

Governments and Union Territories promote 

environmental improvement by providing the 

following basic amenities. 

• Water Supply 

• Sewer-open drains with normal outflow 

avoiding accumulation of stagnant waste 

water 

• storm water drains 

• community baths and latrines 

• widening and paving of existing pathways 

• street lighting 

• other community facilities to slum dwellers. 

During the year 2006-07, 330958 persons have 

been covered upto August, 2006 against the 

annual targets of 2669342 persons (Annexure- 

C). 

8.2 Restructuring of Twenty Point 

Programme – 2006 (to be 

operationalized from 1.4.2007) 

According to restructuring of TPP-2006, Ministry 

of HUPA is nodal Ministry for the following points” 

I) I) Garibi Garibi Hatao Hatao Hatao (P (P (Poverty (P (P overty Eradication) 

Eradication) 

With Item to deal with urban poverty 

“Swaran Jayanti Shehari Rojgar Yojana” 

II) II) Subke Subke Liya Liya Awaas Awaas (Housing (Housing for for all) 

all) 

With item EWS/LIG Houses in Urban Areas 

III) III) Basti Basti Sudhar Sudhar (Improvement (Improvement of of Slums) 

Slums) 

With Item 7 – Point Charter 

(1) Security of land tenure for urban poor 

(2) Affordable housing (3) Water supply (4) 

Sanitation (5) Education (6) Health (7) Social 

Security. 

22 22 22 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Annexure-A 

TARGETS & ACHIEVEMENT OF POINT NO.14(D) EWS HOUSING 

OF 20 POINT PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 2006-07 

Targets argets Achievement Achievement 

% % % of 


2006-07 2006-07 

(upto (upto August,06) August,06) 

Achievement 

Achievement 

1 Andhra Pradesh 85085 18897 22 

2 Assam 84 0 0 

3 Bihar 116 58 50 

4 Chhatisgarh 3000 0 0 

5 Gujrat 300 0 0 

6 Haryana 2000 0 0 

7 J&K 326 0 0 

8 Karnatka 11435 3309 29 

9 Kerala 1343 178 13 

10 Maharashtra 90 62 69 

11 Manipur 270 0 0 

12 Mizoram 120 0 0 

13 Orissa 100 0 0 

14 Pondicherry 210 0 0 

15 Punjab 4275 0 0 

16 Rajasthan 1650 108 7 

17 Sikkim 2 0 0 

18 Uttar Pradesh 3500 348 10 

19 West Bengal 270 0 0 

20 Daman &Diu 5 0 0 

Total 114181 22960 20 

Annexure-B 

TARGETS & ACHIEVEMENT OF POINT NO.14(E) LIG HOUSING 

OF 20 POINT PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 2006-07 


% % of 


2006-07 2006-07 

(upto (upto August,06) August,06) 

Achievement 

Achievement 


2 Assam 18 0 0 

3 Bihar 119 0 0 

4 Chhatisgarh 2000 0 0 

5 Goa 225 0 0 

6 Haryana 442 0 0 

7 Kerala 2580 433 17 

8 Maharashtra 1896 14 1 

9 Manipur 231 0 0 

10 Mizoram 160 0 0 

11 Pondicherry 180 0 0 

12 Punjab 2700 0 0 

13 Rajasthan 110 64 58 

14 Tamilnadu 3828 696 18 

15 Uttar Pradesh 630 119 19 

16 West Bengal 176 0 0 

Total 24003 2251 9 




23 

23


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Annexure-C 

TARGETS & ACHIEVEMENT OF POINT NO.15 ENVIRONMENTAL 

IMPROVMENT OF URBAN SLUMS FOR THE YEAR 2006-07 


% % of 


2006-07 2006-07 (upto (upto August,06) August,06) Achievement 

Achievement 


2 Assam 1250 0 0 

3 Bihar 70374 34960 50 

4 Chattisgarh 25000 4500 18 

5 Delhi 93750 18557 20 

6 Himachal Pradesh 2550 212 8 

7 Jammu &Kashmir 16500 0 0 

8 Jharkhand 81675 0 0 

9 Karnataka 150530 0 0 

10 Kerala 11818 3335 28 

11 Manipur 3866 0 0 

12 Meghalaya 5625 807 14 

13 Mizoram 3500 44 1 

14 Nagaland 7500 0 0 

15 Orissa 2000 762 38 

16 Pondicherry 11646 2325 20 

17 Rajasthan 50000 11667 23 

18 Sikkim 6000 0 0 

19 Tripura 16100 4640 29 

20 Uttranchal 125670 17321 14 

21 Uttar Pradesh 1500000 92039 6 

22 West Bengal 29152 11941 41 

23 A&N Island 250 0 0 

24 Daman & Diu 9 0 0 

Total 2669342 330958 12 

Demonstration Houses under VAMBAY being constructed by BMTPC at Bilaspur, 

Chhatisgarh 

24 24 24 




9. National Housing and Habitat Policy 

The exercise of formulating a National Housing 

Policy began in 1986. At that time, extensive 

consultation with State Governments and others 

was carried out. The final National Housing Policy, 

as approved by the Cabinet, was placed before 

the Parliament in 1988. However, with the change 

of Government in 1990, it was decided to redraft 

the National Housing Policy. The redrafted 

Housing Policy was finally placed in the Parliament 

in August, 1994. This policy was further reviewed 

and revised in July, 1998, which is the current 

National Housing & Habitat Policy-1998. 

Shelter is one of the basic human needs just next 

to food and clothing. The need for a National 

Housing and Habitat Policy emerges from the 

growing requirements of shelter and related 

infrastructure in the country. These requirements 

are growing due to the rapid pace of urbanization, 

increased migration from rural to urban centres 

in search of livelihood, mis-match between 

demand and supply of sites & services and 

dwelling units at affordable cost and the inability 

of most new and poorer urban settlers to access 

formal land markets in urban areas due to the 

high costs and their own lower incomes, leading 

to non-inclusive cities and towns for some sections 

of the society and thus a non-sustainable situation. 

Hence, it has been decided to review the existing 

Housing Policy and revise the same with the 

intention to promote sustainable development of 

habitat in the country, and to ensure equitable 

supply of land, shelter and services at affordable 

prices to all sections. 

9.1 NEED FOR A REVIEW 

The ultimate goal of any Housing Policy is to 

ensure that the basic need of ‘shelter to all’ is 

fulfilled and a better quality of life is provided to 

all citizens by harnessing fully the potential in the 

public, private and the household sectors. There 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

have been major changes in habitat and human 

settlement issues and housing and real estate 

sectors since the current National Housing & 

Habitat Policy came into existence in 1998. In 

particular the urban housing sector has been 

made to face new and emerging challenges with 

regard to available versus required shelter, slums, 

sanitation, and basic amenities. It has also lately 

become important and necessary to address the 

issues of sustainable development and provision 

of urban housing and infrastructure through strong 

public-private partnership in view of limited public 

finances. There is an enormous shortage in urban 

housing sector specially for the economically less 

privileged classes and major deficiencies in 

housing related infrastructure. Large investments 

are required to overcome the shortages and 

improve infrastructure facilities. This would 

necessitate a paradigm shift to encourage the 

private and cooperative sectors to play a major 

role in the housing sector including through 

encouragement by way of modification in the 

existing legal and regulatory regime wherever 

necessary and through providing continued fiscal 

incentives. Some initiatives have already been 

taken by the Government in this regard and these 

need to be adequately reflected in the new policy. 

This policy support would realize the full potential 

of public-private partnerships. The Government’s 

direct intervention in social housing for the benefit 

of the poor and deprived also needs to be 

strengthened as well as mandatory guidelines 

need to be provided to private developers to 

support social housing. Accordingly, one of the 

major recommendations that emerged in the 

Conference of Housing Ministers of States / UTs 

organized by this Ministry on 29-30 November, 

2004 at New Delhi was to review and revise/ 

update the existing Housing Policy to provide for 

these and other changes which have become 

necessary since 1998 to achieve the goal of 

housing for all. 

25 

25


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

10. Draft National Urban Housing and 

Habitat Policy 2006 

A Task Force was constituted under the 

Chairpersonship of Secretary of the then Ministry 

of Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation on 

27.1.2005 representing members from Planning 

Commission, M/o Finance & Other Ministries/ 

Deptt./State Governments and Financial and 

other institutions dealing with Housing sectors. 

The terms of reference of the Task Force were: 

(i) to review the existing Housing & Habitat 

Policy, suggest changes and draft a new 

Policy, 

(ii) to review the existing schemes, policies, 

guidelines, laws, bye-laws and rules & 

regulations at the Central/State level in the 

housing and habitat sector and suggest 

revision of these in the light of the proposed 

revised Housing Policy; and 

(iii) to recommend the broad parameters on the 

lines of which the model laws, bye-laws, 

rules & regulations of the Central/State level 

may be drafted to boost the housing 

activities and to remove legal impediments 

in achieving goals of the proposed policy. 

The Task Force further constituted 5 Subcommittees 

to examine in detail various issues 

such as legal & regulatory, financial, technological 

etc. involved while implementing the Housing 

Policy and make their recommendations to the 

Task Force. On the basis of the reports of the 

sub-committees, the Task Force submitted a formal 

draft Policy to the Ministry. This draft Policy has 

further been discussed in a National Consultation 

convened under the Chairpersonship of Minister 

of State (Independent Charge) of this Ministry with 

representatives from State Govt. and Central 

Ministries, Task Force Members, NGOs & other 

stakeholders etc. on 5.10.2005 at New Delhi. 

A draft of the National Housing and Habitat Policy, 

2006 (NUHHP-2006) has, therefore, been 

prepared to address these issues. The central 

theme of the proposed Policy is strong publicprivate 

partnerships for tackling housing and 

infrastructure problems. The Government would 

act as enabler and provide fiscal concessions, 

carry out legal and regulatory reforms and create 

a supportive environment. The private sector as 

the other partner is expected to come forward to 

undertake actual construction activities and invest 

and also run infrastructure services. Whereas the 

private sector would also be encouraged to carve 

plots and to make houses for the EWS/LIG through 

earmarking of land, cross subsidy, FAR relaxation 

& other models, the Public sector would, however, 

retain a key role in social housing for the EWS/ 

LIG. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban 

Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is seen as an 

important vehicle for social housing delivery by 

making housing affordable to slum dwellers. 

A draft Cabinet Note enclosing the draft National 

Urban Housing & Habitat Policy, 2006 was 

circulated in November 2005 to the concerned 

Ministries/Departments and would be submitted 

to Cabinet for its consideration shortly. 

Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences 

(KIMS) funded by HUDCO 

26 26 26 





Alleviation organized the first ever Asia-Pacific 

Ministerial Conference on Housing and Human 

Settlements in New Delhi in collaboration with 

the UN-HABIT UN-HABITAT UN-HABIT T from from 13 13 th to to 16 16 16 th December December, December 

2006, 2006, at at V VVigyan 

VV 

igyan Bhavan, Bhavan, Bhavan, in in New New Delhi. 

Delhi. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

11. Brief Note on Asia Pacific Ministerial 

Conference on Housing & Human Settlements 

The Conference aimed at addressing the 

challenges of Urbanization, Housing and Habitat 

Management, Millennium Development Goals, 

Urban Poverty and Slum Development and to 

develop strategies and policies for integrated 

development, in which land and housing are 

key components. The goal of this Conference is 

to share and exchange knowledge on land and 

housing and national and city strategies for 

poverty alleviation. 

India being one of the largest countries in this 

region can support UN-HABITAT in monitoring 

MDG goals and the Habitat Agenda in Asia 

Pacific countries Ministers dealing with Housing 

and Human Settlements. 

As this was an important International Conference 

organized by the Ministry of Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation, His Excellency the President 

of India had inaugurated the Ministerial Segment 

of the Conference on 15 th December, 2006. 

Delegations from thirty five countries including 18 

ministers from the Asia Pacific region participated 

and deliberated on pro-poor urban governance 

and planning, slum upgrading, delivery of 

Millennium Development Goals on water and 

sanitation and financing sustainable urbanization. 

Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam during Asia-Pacific Ministerial 

Conference on Housing and Human Settlements, New Delhi, 13 th to 16 th December, 

2006, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi 

27 

27


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Glimpses of First Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Human 

Settlements, New Delhi, 13 - 16 December, 2006, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi 

28 28 28 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Glimpses of First Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Human 

Settlements, New Delhi, 13 - 16 December, 2006, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi 

29 

29


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

12. Two Million Housing Programme (2MHP) 

In accordance with the National Housing & 

Habitat Policy 1998 which focuses on Housing 

for All as a priority area, with particular stress on 

the needs of the Economically Weaker sections 

and Low Income Group categories, the Two 

Million Housing Programme was launched during 

1998-99. This is a loan based scheme, which 

envisages facilitating construction of 20 lakh 

additional units every year (7lakh DUs-in Urban 

areas; 13 lakh DUs in Rural areas). HUDCO is 

to meet the target of 4 lakh dwelling units in Urban 

areas and 6 lakh dwelling units in Rural areas 

annually. The target of 2 lakh dwelling units in 

Urban areas is to be met by Housing Finance 

Institutions [HFIs] recognized by the National 

Housing Bank & Public Sector Banks and the 

balance 1 lakh dwelling units in Urban areas by 

the Co-operative Sector. 

The physical and financial progress of the 2 MHP 

since its inception [1998-1999] till 2005-06/ 

2006-07 in Urban areas is as under. The progress 

made by HUDCO in the Rural areas under this 

programme is also as under: 

I. HUDCO (year-wise target, number of DUs & loan sanctioned) 

YEAR YEAR ANNU ANNUAL ANNU AL No. No. of of of Amount Amount Amount ANNU ANNUAL ANNU AL No. No. of of Amount 

Amount 

TARGET ARGET Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Sanctioned Sanctioned TARGET ARGET Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Sanctioned 

Sanctioned 

(DUs) (DUs) (DUs) Units Units [Rs. [Rs. in in crore] crore] 

(DUs) (DUs) (DUs) Units Units Units (Rs. (Rs. (Rs. in in crore) 

crore) 

URBAN URBAN 

RURAL 

RURAL 

1998-99 1998-99 400000 430399 1193.35 600000 634638 697.42 

1999-00 1999-00 400000 460218 1159.11 600000 654050 933.89 

2000-01 2000-01 400000 470881 578.87 600000 732131 643.33 

2001-02 2001-02 400000 401078 450.48 600000 333113 494.39 

2002-03 2002-03 400000 459969 2792.91 600000 413078 431.48 

2003-04 2003-04 400000 427455 685.77 600000 542428 590.91 

2004-05 2004-05 400000 254885 1055.52 600000 864857 2002.50 

2005-06 2005-06 400000 184597 749.28 600000 7600 48.00 

2006-07* 2006-07* 400000 12060 594.57 600000 80000 140.00 

Total otal 3600000 3600000 3600000 3101542 3101542 9259.86 9259.86 5400000 5400000 4261895 4261895 5981.92 

5981.92 

*as as on on on 31.12.2006 

31.12.2006 

II. HFIs and Public Sector Banks (year-wise target, number of DUs & loan sanctioned) 

YEAR YEAR ANNU ANNUAL ANNU ANNUAL 

AL No. No. of of Amount Amount No. No. of of Amount Amount No. No. of of Amount Amount 

Amount 

TARGET ARGET ARGET Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Sanctioned Sanctioned Sanctioned Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Sanctioned Sanctioned Sanctioned Dwelling Dwelling Dwelling Sanctioned Sanctioned 

Sanctioned 

(DUs) (DUs) (DUs) 

(Rs.in (Rs.in (Rs.in crore) crore) 

(Rs.in (Rs.in (Rs.in crore) crore) 

(Rs.in (Rs.in (Rs.in crore) 

crore) 

HFIs HFIs HFIs 

Public ublic Sector Sector Bank Bank Bank 

Total otal 

1998-99 1998-99 1998-99 200000 153932 5032.69 39739 1090.36 193671 193671 6123.05 

6123.05 

1999-00 1999-00 1999-00 200000 135035 3583.64 91460 2055.75 226495 226495 5639.39 

5639.39 

2000-01 2000-01 2000-01 200000 171496 4587.3 162240 4284.36 333736 333736 8871.66 

8871.66 

2001-02 2001-02 2001-02 200000 262991 7420.89 195624 5449.23 458615 458615 12870.12 

12870.12 

2002-03 2002-03 2002-03 200000 259772 7433.21 377319 11715.5 637091 637091 19148.71 

19148.71 

2003-04 2003-04 2003-04 200000 291955 11548.78 329376 10942.57 621331 621331 22491.35 

22491.35 

2004-05 2004-05 200000 235250 13585.24 199425 7431.74 434675 434675 434675 21016.98 

21016.98 

2005-06* 2005-06* 200000 327594 27529.70 113265 4974.34 440859 440859 32504.04 

32504.04 

Total 1600000 1838025 80721.45 1508448 47943.85 3346473 128665.30 

*as as on on 31.10.2006 

31.10.2006 

30 30 30 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

III. Co-operative Sector (URBAN): (year-wise target, number of DUs & loan sanctioned) 

Year ear ANNU ANNUAL ANNU AL T TTARGET 

TT 

ARGET No. No. of of Amount Amount Amount Sanctioned Sanctioned 

Sanctioned 

(DUs) (DUs) (DUs) 

Dwelling Dwelling Units Units Units 

(Rs. (Rs. (Rs. in in crores) 

crores) 

1998-1999 1998-1999 

100000 174944 1205.88 

1999-2000 

1999-2000 1999-2000 

100000 88218 1240.86 

2001-2001 2001-2001 

100000 80899 1367.72 

2001-2002 2001-2002 

100000 73659 1392.90 

2002-2003 2002-2003 

100000 73461 1287.09 

2003-2004 2003-2004 

100000 89948 1538.93 

2004-2005 2004-2005 

100000 117004 1782.16 

2005-2006* 2005-2006* 

100000 69499 0.00 

Total otal *T *Tentative *T entative F FFigures 

F igures 

800000 800000 

767632 767632 

9815.54 

9815.54 

The primary responsibility for fulfillment of the 

targets in physical terms rests with the State 

Governments, while HUDCO and other agencies 

make the funds available in the form of loans. 

Hence the successful implementation of the 

scheme largely depends upon the cooperation of 

the agencies of the State Governments responsible 

for launching and implementation of various 

housing schemes. Housing Cooperative societies 

and private sector will also be encouraged to 

participate in the housing activity in a big way 

provided a facilitating environment is created by 

the State Governments in the form of legal, 

administrative and fiscal reforms. 

HUDCO financed Housing Scheme at Indirapuram, Distt. Ghaziabad 

31 

31


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

13. Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Scheme 

(ILCS) 

13.1 Background of ILCS: 

• From rom1980-81:1980-81:initially started through the Ministry of Home 

Affairs & later through Ministry of Social 

Justice & Empowerment. 

• From rom1989-90:- 1989-90:- 1989-90:- 

Transferred to Ministry of Urban 

Development & Poverty Alleviation 

• From rom2003-04:- 2003-04:- 2003-04:- 

Transferred to Ministry of Urban Employment 

& Poverty Alleviation / Ministry of Housing 

& Urban Poverty Alleviation 

13.2 Components of integrated Low Cost 

Sanitation Scheme (ILCS) 

• The scheme envisages conversion of dry 

latrines into low cost twin pit sanitary latrines 

and construction of new individual toilets 

where none exists. 

• The scheme has been taken up on a ‘whole 

town basis’ meaning thereby all sections of 

population of the town (HIG, MIG, LIG & 

EWS) are presently covered by the ILCS 

guidelines. 

• The scheme is being operated through the 

Housing and Urban Development 

Corporation (HUDCO) by providing a mix 

of subsidy from the Central Government 

and loan from the HUDCO. 

• Demand driven scheme and hence no state 

allocation/ targets are fixed. 

13.3 Pattern of Assistance: 

The HUDCO is providing a mix of loan and 

subsidy from the Central Government in a 

synchronised manner as per the following 

financing pattern. 

Category Category Category Subsidy Subsidy Loan oan oan Beneficiary Beneficiary 

Beneficiary 

contribution 

contribution 

EWS 45% 50% 5% 

LIG 25% 60% 15% 

MIG/HIG Nil 75% 25% 

The present unit cost for different categories of 

sanitary latrines is as follows:- 

5 user unit Rs.4000.00 



13.4 Cumulative Financial & Physical 

Progress* upto (31/12/2006) 

(a) (a) Financial inancial P PProgress 

P rogress 

• Total Release : Rs. 311.86 crores 

• Total UCs Pending : Rs. 38.83 crores 

• % of UCs Pending : 13% 

(b) (b) Physical Physical P PProgress 

P Progress 

rogress 

• Total no. of Dry Latrines 

** ** yet to be converted : 6 lakhs (approx.) 

• No. of Dry Latrines 

Converted/ New Units 

Constructed : 21.86 lakhs 

• Total constructions/ 

conversions in progress 

* Source: HUDCO 

: 1.32 lakhs 

** ** as reported by the some State/UT Governments in the 

prescribed performa, some States/UT at different points 

of time and in some cases the source of the data is as 

old as 1989 NSSO report. 

13.5 Details of Budget Allocation and 

Expenditure during 10 th Five year Plan 

under ILCS. 

The details of Budget Allocation and Expenditure 

incurred during 10th Five year Plan under ILCS 

are as under:- 

(Rs. In Crores) 

Year ear B.E .E R.E R.E R.E Actual Actual 

Actual 

Expenditure 

Expenditure 

2002-03 30.00 4.80 4.80 

2003-04 30.00 4.80 4.80 

2004-05 30.00 30.00 20.00 

2005-06 30.00 5.00 2.00 

2006-07 30.00 30.00 30.00 

32 32 32 




14. Housing & Urban Development 

Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) 

HUDCO, since its inception in 1970, has made 

steady and significant strides in the field of housing 

and urban infrastructure financing, to emerge as 

the pioneer and the trend-setter. Catering to the 

needs of every section of the population, with a 

basket of delivery options both in housing and 

urban infrastructure development, HUDCO aims 

to achieve sustainable growth in these sectors. 

Having emerged as the market leader in its 

operational arena, HUDCO aims at consolidating 

its position and enhancing the performance by 

laying emphasis on its core competencies and 

exploring diversified avenues of service delivery. 

The effective span of HUDCO omnipresent 

techno-financial umbrella could be gauged by 

the fact that on an average, one in every 16 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

houses in the country has invariably availed 

HUDCO’s assistance. This has earned the 

institution the rare distinction of being in the array 

of the largest facilitators of housing across the 

globe. In a bid to widen its coverage, HUDCO 

has fanned out and spread its wings far and wide, 

touching the daily lives of the people in every 

alternate town and city in India besides thousands 

of villages. 

HUDCO is fast emerging as the only organisation 

of its kind for dealing with the unique needs of 

shelter and infrastructure development and still 

ensuring profitable results. HUDCO, during the 

three decades of its existence, has extended 

assistance for taking up over 141 Lacs dwelling 

units both in urban and rural areas. In sharp 

Government General Hospital, Chennai (Scheme No.17477), Borrowing Agency – 

Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation Ltd., Implementing Agency – Public Works 

Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Cost of Construction – Rs.104 crores, 

Inaugurated on – 01.07.2005 

33 

33


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent 

Charge) for HUPA inaugurating HUDCO 

BuildTech 2006 - India International Trade 

Fair, 14 November 2006, New Delhi 

contrast to the policy adopted by the contemporary 

housing finance companies in the fraternity, of 

targeting the affluent middle and high income 

groups, HUDCO’s assistance covers the 

housing needs of every class of the society, 

with special emphasis on the weaker sections 

and the deprived. The social mandate in line 

with HUDCO motto of “Profitability with Social 

Justice” envisages about 95% of the total dwelling 

units sanctioned by HUDCO are for the 

economically weaker section and the low income 

group. HUDCO has also contributed significantly 

to the Government’s launched during 1998-99 

Housing Programme by assisting 104.92 Lacs 

housing units within a short span of 8 years and 

nine months. 

HUDCO continued its emphasis on the disaster 

mitigation front. Continuing on its course of 

extending substantial techno-financial assistance 

for rehabilitation and reconstruction in the 

aftermath of natural calamities. 

Cumulatively till 31.12.2006, HUDCO has been 

able to contribute over 41 Lacs houses in disaster 

affected regions with project cost of over Rs.5170 

Crores and HUDCO’s financial assistance of 

Rs.3262 Crores. HUDCO has been advocating 

pre-disaster mitigation and risk reduction involving 

Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent 

Charge) for HUPA visiting HUDCO Stall in 

India International Trade Fair, 2006, 

New Delhi 

Prediction, Preparation, Prevention, Publicity and 

Protection, as against the prevalent post-disaster 

actions of Rescue, Relief, Rehabilitation, 

Reconstruction, Repairs, Renewals and Retrofitting. 

Adequate basic services and appropriate social 

amenities along with associated infrastructure has 

been an integral part of HUDCO agenda of 

sustainable habitat development. The urban 

infrastructure window of HUDCO, opened in 

1989, has sanctioned a total of 1269 projects 

(Excludes sanitation schemes) with a total project 

cost of Rs.149992 Crores and HUDCO financial 

assistance of Rs.42446 Crores, contributing to 

the improvement in the physical quality of life of 

the citizens at large in the urban areas. 

With the cost of construction increasing year after 

year, housing is becoming beyond the reach of 

most sections of the society and the need for 

utilizing cost-effective technologies has become 

imperative. HUDCO has been promoting the use 

of alternative building materials and appropriate 

technologies to ensure cost-effective, 

environment friendly, ecologically appropriate, 

energy saving and yet aesthetically pleasing and 

affordable housing. The question of transfer of 

technology at the grass root level is addressed by 

the support extended to the establishment of 577 

34 34 34 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Rural Habitat Improvement Scheme (Swachcha Grama Yojana) by Karnataka Land Army 

Corporation Ltd. (KALC) (Scheme No.17281) 

Building Centres in urban areas and 78 Building 

Centres in rural areas across the country. 

The future belongs to those who dare to dream, 

who foresee the possibilities and perceive the 

hurdles before they become obvious. Anchored 

on the cornerstones of Growth, Innovation and 

Leadership and equipped to face the challenges 

of the new millennium, the company would be 

striving for the pinnacle of excellence in service 

delivery, towards making HUDCO a household 

brand name. HUDCO with diligent vision, proven 

strengths and prudential strategies would be 

banking on core competencies, quality of service, 

customer orientation and professionalism to tap 

the right opportunities in achieving prolific and 

vibrant growth in the years to come. 

14.1 HUDCO OPERATION DURING 

2006-2007 

HUDCO during the nine months of the current 

year i.e. 2006-07 from April-December 2006 has 

achieved sanctions of Rs.3511 Crores providing 

assistance for construction of a 92060 Lacs 

dwelling units, over 11744 sanitation units, and 

67 urban infrastructure projects throughout the 

country. The loan released during the year 

amounted to Rs.1696 Crores. 

Cumulatively till December 2006, HUDCO has 

sanctioned 15628 schemes involving a total 

project cost of Rs.198284 Crores (Excludes 

HUDCO Niwas) with loan component of 69998 

Crores. An amount of Rs.55033 Crores has been 

released. HUDCO’s assistance has helped in 

the construction of 141 Lacs residential units, 

about 59 Lacs sanitation units and in undertaking 

1269 urban infrastructure schemes effectively 

improving the living conditions in the urban and 

rural areas, in over 1797 towns and thousands 

of villages. 

During the year 2006-2007, the MoU target of 

Rs.13860 Crores for sanction for housing and 

infrastructure projects, and Rs.6,930 Crores of 

releases as part of its normal operations as well 

as the Housing Programme launched during 

1998-99 has been setup by HUDCO. All efforts 

are being made to excell to reach over Rs.13,860 

Crores in Sanctions and Rs.6,930 Crores in 

releases during the current year. 

14.2 HOUSING FOR ALL 

During the year 2006-2007 HUDCO has 

sanctioned loans of Rs.911 Crores (Includes 

HUDCO Niwas) for housing programme in the 

nine months of the year i.e. upto Dec. 2006. These 

schemes will provide 92060 residential units, 600 

non residential buildings and 11744 sanitation 

units. Out of total residential units sanctioned by 

35 

35


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

HUDCO 92% are for the EWS and LIG families. 

Included in above is loan sanctions of Rs140 

crores for construction of 80000 dwelling units in 

rural areas. 

14.3 HUDCO OPERATIONAL PERFOR- 

MANCE (As on 31.12.2006) 

During the current financial HUDCO has 

sanctioned 150 schemes with a total loan of 

Rs3511 cr. out of which Rs.911 cr. have been 

sanctioned towards Housing schemes (Incl. Retail 

Finance) and Rs.2600 cr. have been sanctioned 

towards various Urban Infrastructure schemes. 

Further an amount of Rs.1696 cr. has been 

disbursed which includes Rs.386 cr. towards 

housing schemes and Rs.1310 cr. towards Urban 

Infrastructure schemes. 

Further, during the current year, so far, out of the 

total Dwelling Units sanctioned, 92% have been 

sanctioned for priority sector (EWS/LIG), and 18% 

of the loan under housing has been sanctioned 

for priority sector. 

It is expected that during the current year HUDCO 

will achieve sanctions to the tune of Rs.13860 cr. 

(Housing : 3960 cr., UI : 9900 cr.) & disbursement 

to the tune of Rs.6930 cr. (Housing : 1980 cr., UI 

: 4950 cr.), atleast. 

14.4 HUDCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO 

HOUSING PROGRAMME OF 

GOVT. OF INDIA LAUNCHED 

DURING 1998-99. 

Under the Housing Programme of Govt. of India 

which was started since 1998-1999, HUDCO has 

been entrusted for providing loan assistance for 

construction of 10 Lacs units annually (6 lacs units 

in rural areas and 4 lacs units in urban areas, out 

of the 13 lacs houses in rural areas and 7 lacs in 

urban envisaged under the programme). Against 

the same since 1998 to 2006-2007 as on 

31.12.2006. HUDCO. HUDCO has supported 

a total of 104.92 lacs units in both rural and urban 

areas. 

14.5 VALMIKI AMBEDKAR AWAS 

YOJANA (VAMBAY) 

VAMBAY and NSDP schemes have been 

subsumed in the Integrated Housing & Slum 

Development Programme (IHSDP), which was 

launched on 3 rd December, 2005. In the current 

year 2006-2007, under VAMBAY, only ongoing 

VAMBAY schemes (inc. schemes approved inprinciple) 

will be considered for release of GOI 

subsidy, subject to the furnishing of 100% due 

Utilisation Certificates and achieving atleast 50% 

physical/financial progress against past releases. 

Accordingly, agencies have been asked to reframe 

the fresh proposals under VAMBAY, as per IHSDP 

guidelines. 

14.5.1 Cumulative Status 

Till 31.12.2006, Govt. of India subsidy of 

Rs.93379.421 lacs has been released for 

construction/upgradation of 457254 dwelling 

units and 65331 toilet seats. 

As per progress reports, 321837 DUs are 

completed & 55874 DUs are under progress and 

53596 WCs are completed & 4717 WCs are 

under progress. 

14.6 BASIC SERVICES TO THE URBAN 

POOR(BSUP) & INTEGRATED 

HOUSING AND SLUM DEVELOP- 

MENT PROGRAMME (IHSDP) 

14.6.1 BASIC SERVICES TO THE URBAN 

POOR(BSUP) 

Background 

Background 

• The Basic Services to the Urban Poor was 

launched by the Prime Minister in December 

36 36 36 




2005 with a view to ameliorate the 

conditions of the urban slum dwellers who 

are residing in dilapidated conditions in the 

identified 63 mission cities. 

• The basic objective of the scheme is to strive 

for holistic slum development with a healthy 

and enabling urban environment by 

providing adequate shelter and basic 

infrastructure facilities to the urban slum 

dwellers. 

Role ole of of HUDCO 

HUDCO 

• HUDCO is one of the appraising agencies 

for appraisal of Detailed Project Reports 

(DPRs) received under BSUP. 

• HUDCO is assisting the State Govts., 

implementing agencies in preparation of 

DPRs as per guidelines. 

• HUDCO is organizing Training/Workshops 

at various places to familiarize the agencies 

with the programme’s guidelines. 

• HUDCO may also monitor the progress of 

the project and implementation of reform 

agenda. 

14.6.2 INTEGRATED HOUSING AND 

SLUM DEVELOPMENT PROGRA- 

MME (IHSDP) 

Background 

Background 

• The Integrated Housing and Slum 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Development Programme was launched by 

the Prime Minister in December 2005 with 

a view to ameliorate the conditions of the 

urban slum dwellers who are residing in 

dilapidated conditions. 

• The existing Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana 

(VAMBAY) and the discontinued National 

Slum Development Programme (NSDP) are 

subsumed in the IHSDP, to strive for holistic 

slum development with a healthy and 

enabling urban environment by providing 

adequate shelter and basic infrastructure 

facilities to the urban slum dwellers. 

• The programme covers all the towns except 

the 63 mission towns/cities covered under 

the Basic Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) 

under JNNURM. 

Role ole of of HUDCO 

HUDCO 

• HUDCO is the only appraising agencies for 

appraisal of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) 

received under IHSDP, keeping in view the 

large quantum of projects and HUDCO’s 

extensive network of Regional Offices. 

• HUDCO is assisting the State Govts., 

implementing agencies in preparation of 

DPRs as per guidelines. 

• HUDCO is organizing Training/Workshops 

at various places to familiarize the agencies 

with the programme’s guidelines. 

• HUDCO may also monitor the progress of 

Housing under VAMBAY scheme at Narayanapuram, Andhra Pradesh 

37 

37


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Cyclone Flood 96-97 Colony, S.C.Savampudi & KfW Civic Amenities, C.C.Roads, 

Prakasam (Dt.) 

the project and implementation of reform 

agenda. 

14.7 LOAN ASSISTANCE TO 

INDIVIDUALS THROUGH 

HUDCO NIWAS 

In order to reach out to the beneficiaries directly, 

HUDCO launched its Individual Housing Loan 

Window-HUDCO NIWAS in March,1999. The 

scheme is extremely popular with its most 

competitive terms, value added services and user 

friendly options among the public at large. The 

HUDCO Niwas has emerged as the fastest 

growing retail lending window in our country. 

During the current financial year 2006-07 (till 

31.12.2006), a loan assistance of Rs.35.03 

Construction of Road over Bridge at Tirur by Roads & Bridges Development 

Corporation 

38 38 38 




Crores has been sanctioned for 795 beneficiaries 

and Rs.32.04 Crores has also been released. 

14.8 URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE : 

TOUCHING THE DAILY LIVES OF 

CITIZENS 

As the market leader in urban infrastructure 

financing, HUDCO continued extending finance 

for a variety of projects. During the nine months 

of current financial year, from 1.4.2006 till 

31.12.2006. HUDCO has sanctioned 67 urban 

infrastructure schemes with a total project cost 

of Rs.3783.92 Crores and HUDCO loan 

component of Rs.2599.99 Crores. During the 

remaining three months of the current financial 

year, HUDCO proposes to achieve the MoU 

targets. Against the MOU target of Rs.4950 

Crores for the current financial year HUDCO has 

already released the Rs.1310 Crores. The 

balance amount will be released in the remaining 

three months. The Sector-wise details of urban 

infrastructure projects sanctioned by HUDCO are 

as follows:- 

(Rs. In Crores) 

Sector Sector 

No. No. Project roject Cost Cost Loan oan Amount 

Amount 

Water Supply 3 243.88 214.50 

Sewerage/ 3 54.82 39.74 

Drainage/Solid 

Waste Management 

Transport & 6 363.30 267.25 

Roads/Bridges 

Commercial & 36 2963.55 1978.28 

Others 

Social Infrastructure 19 158.38 100.22 

Total 67 3783.93 2599.99 

14.9 SPECIAL INITIATIVES IN THE 

NORTH-EASTERN REGION 

HUDCO continued its special thrust towards 

development of the North-Eastern States through 

a special allocation of 10 percent of its annual 

allocations for North-Eastern States under its 

housing portfolio. During the nine months of the 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

current financial year HUDCO has sanctioned 9 

housing schemes with a project cost of Rs.38.24 

Crores and HUDCO loan component of Rs.30.63 

Crores. This would help in construction of 412 

dwelling units in the States of Assam, Arunachal 

Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland. 

Beside above HUDCO has also sanctioned 11 

Urban Infrastructure projects with HUDCO loan 

assistance of Rs.30 Crores in the state of Assam, 

and Nagaland. 

14.10 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 

INITIATIVES THROUGH 

BUILDING CENTRES 

HUDCO continued its efforts in strengthening the 

Building Centre Movement towards promoting 

environment friendly, ecologically appropriate, 

energy efficient, functionally durable, aesthetically 

pleasing and yet cost effective and affordable 

building materials and technologies in the 

construction sector. 577 Building Centres 

sanctioned of which 392 Building Centres are 

doing good works in propagating the innovative 

building materials and technologies, and others 

are in various stages of establishment. So far (till 

31.12.2006), total grant of Rs.2216.10 Lacs has 

been sanctioned for Urban Building Centre out 

of which Rs.1667.94 Lacs have been released. 

14.11 ESTABLISHMENT OF ADARSH 

GRAM/ADARSH BASTI 

HUDCO continued its programme for 

development of Model Villages(Adarsh Gram) and 

Model Improved Slums (Adarsh Basti)for providing 

integrated inputs of physical planning, 

architectural design, efficient utilization of land 

and appropriate technologies ensuring user 

participation, use of innovative/renewable sources 

of energy etc., with a convergence mode in all 

the States and Union Territories. HUDCO 

cumulative sanctions upto 31.12.2006 is of 116 

39 

39


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Model Village/Basti with total grant of Rs.3891.83 

Lacs. 

14.12 NEW INITIATIVES 

A) Targeted Implementation of 

Community Toilets & Sanitation 

programme 

HUDCO has recently formulated above scheme 

where community toilets can be proposed in busy 

market places, bus stands, Railway Stations, 

Schools, Institutes, Hospital, slums etc. The 

implementing agency can be any corporate sector 

NGO, CBO, Local Govt., State Govt. Institute 

etc. HUDCO will provide grant of 50% of total 

project cost or Rs. 20,000/WC whichever is less, 

after the agency invest their share in the project. 

Upto December, 2006 HUDCO has sanctioned 

17 schemes (including In principle) for Rs.851.40 

lacs as HUDCO grant for the schemes. 

B) Construction of KIOSKS For Urban 

Poor 

The scheme is to provide loan facility to urban 

poor living below the poverty line in any urban 

Centres. The scheme provides employment 

opportunities also to urban poors by providing 

construction loan facility to enable them to 

construct Kiosks, vending platforms for petty items, 

etc. The main emphasis of this scheme is to 

encourage disabled and female members of the 

urban poor families to run Kiosks so that income 

of the family can be supplemented. Loan upto a 

maximum of Rs.34,000/- or 95% of the cost, 

whichever is lower, for each Kiosk can be availed 

from HUDCO. 

14.13 RESOURCE MOBILISATION 

INITATIVES 

In 2006-07, HUDCO has been able to mobilize 

an amount of Rs.3596.45 crores upto 

31.12.2006. The resources were generated 

through a prudential mix of bank loans, bonds 

and public deposits (both short term & long term 

funds) so as to minimize the incremental cost 

of funds. With upgradation of HUDCO to 

Mini-Ratna status in 2004, no further equity 

infusion is being received. 

14.14 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 

EFFORTS 

HUDCO has attained a high proficiency in its 

Jind Barwala Road, Scheme Name – Improvement and Upgradation of State 

Highways, Phase – I & II, Scheme No. 16648 

40 40 40 




design and development efforts through which a 

large number of projects in the area of cost 

effective housing, environmental improvement, 

development plans, post disaster projects, 

landscape and urban conservation projects have 

been undertaken. Some of the prestigious and 

on-going projects undertaken are as follows:- 

1. Gujarat Rehabilitation Works – Construction 

of Community Assets Buildings under 

MPLAD Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha. 

2. Reconstruction of Dholavira Village in 

Gujarat. 

3. Pilgrimage Centre at Solophok for 

Government of Sikkim. 

4. Construction of Community Asset Buildings 

utilizing cost effective, energy efficient and 

environment friendly building materials and 

technology integrated Shopping Complex, 

Nursery cum Crech Primary School, Samaj 

Sadan and Polyclinic at Narela and Tikri 

Khurd. 

5. Office Building for National Commission 

for Women at Jassola, New Delhi. 

6. Indian Council for Cultural Relations 

Campus at Africa Avenue, New Delhi 

7. Pilot Project for Construction and 

Reconstruction of facilities at Manikarnika 

Ghat for JICA. 

8. Shopping cum Interpretation Centre at 

Fatehpur Sikri, Agra. 

9. Detailed Project Report Study for Tourism 

Development in Assam & Arunachal 

Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir 

and Karnataka for ITDC. 

10. Office Complex of ASI at Tilak Marg, New 

Delhi. 

11. Development Plan for Gaya. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

15. Human Settlement 

Management Institute 

(HSMI) 

HSMI is operating as Research and Training 

Division of HUDCO and its activities are 

supported by a core group of qualified and 

experienced professionals from various 

disciplines. HSMI continued its efforts to provide 

capacity building to the professionals engaged 

in the Housing and Urban Development Sectors, 

including HUDCO borrowing agencies, local 

bodies, NGOs, private sector Housing Finance 

Institutions etc. HSMI is the nodal institute on 

behalf of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation, to coordinate various training and 

documentation activities under Information, 

Education and Communication (IEC) component 

of (SJSRY). 

During the period, HSMI activities covered a series 

of training research and related activities, the 

detail of which are briefly indicated as below: 

(I) TRAINING 

During the period 2006-07, HSMI has organized 

training programmes for agency professionals and 

had drawn participants from Urban Local 

Governments, Other Urban Sector Agencies and 

Institutions from Third World countries including 

Africa, Latin America, Central Asia/Eastern Europe 

and Asia-Pacific region. These programmes were 

on Urban Development Management 

(International Training Programme Oct.-Dec. 

2006), programmes for Ministry of Housing & 

Urban Poverty Alleviation, SJSRY and programmes 

for the Ministry of Urban Development and 

Ministry of Rural Development. HSMI in 

association with NAREDCO had organized four 

programmes for the Real Estate Professionals 

upto December, 2006 The total training man days 

41 

41


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

achieved through the programmes for the agency 

professionals is 5486 as on 31 st December, 2006. 

HSMI had also organized in-house programmes 

during the period covering areas i.e. ISO 

implementation, IT application, HR, issues, Project 

Appraisal for Legal Officers etc. The achievement 

on training is shown below: 

S. Description Description of of Performance erformance upto 

upto 

No. No. Targets argets 31 31 31 st December December, December 

2006 

2006 

1 Training to HUDCO 

Employees during 

the year 186 Employees 

2 No. of man-days 

organized for agency 

professionals 5486 man days 

(II) RESEARCH & EVALUATION 

ACTIVITIES 

Following are the major research activities 

undertaken during the period : 

• Implementation of concurrent evaluation of 

SJSRY study for the Ministry of Housing & 

UPA, Government of India through Access 

Development Services of Care India. 

• Preparation of detailed agenda and 

technical papers for National Conference 

on Human Settlements held at Hyderabad. 

• In response to a global call for project ideas 

from USAID (28 entries were received from 

India and abroad). HSMI’s proposal was 

one of three ideas short-listed for funding 

for the second phase of project design. The 

idea proposed was for taking up of training 

of construction workers in Jharkhand, as 

well as for demonstration of a suitable 

institutional model for certification of work 

force training in the construction sector. 

Over 60 days, the proposal was developed, 

earning a consultancy fees of Rs.11.4 lakhs 

apart from reimbursement of all actual 

expenses. 

(III) OTHER ACTIVITIES 

• Preparation of Draft National Urban 

Housing and UPA 

- Preparation of Eleven Drafts based on 

feedback from five Sub-Groups, State 

Governments, Central Government 

Departments and other Public 

agencies and Private sector. 

- The policy is currently being finalized 

by the Government of India. 

• Eleventh Plan Sub-Group on Housing 

Finance/Legislatives 

- Report is under preparation, giving a 

background of housing finance 

reforms for 11 th Plan, projected flow 

of funds and ways and means to 

remove the barriers in the expansion 

of housing finance. 

• Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference 

- Professional and Administrative 

Coordination of first ever Asia Pacific 

Housing Ministerial Conference on 

13 th to 16 th December 2006 on 

Human Settlements held at New 

Delhi. The Conference included a 

Expert Group Meeting at National 

Conference to deliberate on major 

issues pertaining to financing, slum 

improvement, institutional, legal and 

related aspects and came up with 

Enhancing Framework of Actions and 

Delhi Declaration. 

• As part of AIHDA delegation, EDT and other 

Representative of HSMI participated in the 

Conference/Network event of the World 

Urban Forum-III (WUF-III) held at Vancouver 

Canada from 17 th -25 th June 2006. 

• An operational agreement i.e. MoU was 

signed between IHS, Rotterdam and 

42 42 42 




HUDCO at Rotterdam in July 2006 for 

working jointly for mutual benefit to 

strengthen professional activities i.e. 

International and National training, 

Capacity Building Services and Training at 

IHS for Indian professionals. In pursuant to 

the said agreement further activities have 

been planned which includes training 

programme at Vietnam with funds provided 

by NUFFIC, other short and long term 

programmes. 

(IV) NETWORKING ACTIVITIES 

HSMI carried out a series of professional 

networking with various national and International 

agencies to exchange experience and expertise 

on areas of urban governance, housing and 

related issues. These include participation of HSMI 

and HUDCO officers in the international level 

training programmes, seminars, workshops etc. 

HSMI also carried out networking with various 

stakeholders within India, covering State level 

institutions under the networking of HUDCO 

Chair, NHB, NAREDCO and other HFIs, 

• Executive Director Training visited at Haixing 

Teaching Shanghai Administration Institute 

(SAI), Shanghai, PR China from 19 th March- 

25 th March, 2006 to participate Regional 

Workshop Promoting Local Economic 

Development thorough strategic Planning 

and 5 th General Council Meeting of 

LOGOTRI. 

15.1 VIGILANCE FUNCTIONS IN 

HUDCO 

Besides investigation of complaints several steps 

for improving preventive vigilance were initiated 

during the year. Corporate Vigilance Department 

has been stressing the need for putting systems in 

place and preparation of Operating Manuals for 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

various operational areas. Suggestions have been 

made to stream line the loan accounting systems 

to provide assurance to the Company as well as 

the borrowing agencies about the correctness and 

reliability of demand statements. Flaws in schemes 

on retail finance and financing of housing of EWS 

through NGO, were communicated to the 

concerned functional heads for appropriate 

remedial action. 

Inspection of Regional Offices as Bhopal, 

Dehradun, Guwahati, Chennai, HSMI, Patna, 

Kolkata and Trivandrum were carried out during 

the year and employees detailed about preventive 

aspects of Vigilance. Three handbooks, covering 

various facets of vigilance activities were prepared 

by the Corporate Vigilance Department and 

circulated to all the offices of HUDCO. Corporate 

Vigilance Department took a major initiative for 

obtaining ISO Certification, which has since been 

granted by the accrediting agency. Vigilance 

Awareness Week was observed by the Corporation 

from 6 th November to 10 th November, 2006 at 

Head Office with focus on preventive vigilance. 

15.2 ORGANIZATIONS NETWORK & 

HUMAN RESOURCE 

DEVELOPMENT 

With the emerging new scenario and competitive 

environment, HUDCO’s approach has been to 

increase professional inputs in shelter and 

infrastructure projects at all stages of the project 

cycle. To achieve this, HUDCO utilizes 

professional skills available in house as well as 

elsewhere in the country. The total human resource 

strength of HUDCO as on 31.12.2006 is 1097, 

out of which 581 are executives with multidisciplinary 

professional backgrounds of finance, 

law, architecture, civil, PHE, urban and regional 

planning, environmental and transport 

specialisation, community development, systems, 

economics, real estate development, human 

resource, public relation, documentation etc. 

43 

43


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

44 44 44 




From being an organization that operated only 

from its Corporate Office in Delhi till 1983, with 

a view to ensure its speedy services to all regions, 

HUDCO has laid emphasis on decentralization 

of its activities. HUDCO has spread its wings to 

develop a closer and stronger rapport with the 

agencies in various States and to identify new ones 

in different regions. 

HUDCO is making profit since its inception and 

based on the performance, HUDCO was granted 

Mini-Ratna status with respect to Financial and 

Operational Autonomy during the year 2004. 

The ever-changing business environment calls for 

more responsive and innovative approaches to 

stay put in the competitive market. HUDCO is 

reorienting its corporate strategies to achieve 

corporate goals. 

With a view to enhance competitive capabilities 

of its human resources, 446 employees were 

nominated/sponsored for training both in India 

and abroad during the year 2006-07 (upto 31 st 

December, 2006). As on 31 st December, 2006 

the total employee strength was 1097 comprising 

of 581 executives and 516 non executives. The 

total number of women employees as on 31 st 

December, 2006 was 296. HUDCO also 

continued its efforts to promote gender equality 

and empowerment of women employees to ensure 

their best contribution. 

The Corporation continued to follow the 

Government policies on reservation for SCs/STs/ 

OBCs. Out of the total strength, there were 191 

SCs, 66 STs, 85 OBCs, 20 physically 

handicapped and 34 ex-servicemen. 

HUDCO continued to maintain good industrial 

relations with its employees. 

With reference to Ministry of Personnel Public 

Grievances and Pension order dated July 2001, 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

HUDCO has adopted Citizen Charter where 

details of activities undertaken have been taken 

careof. The Citizen Charter has been put on 

HUDCO Website for publicity and awareness. 

15.3 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 

IMPLEMEN-TATION 

HUDCO has been making all out efforts to 

implement the Official Language Policy of 

Government of India in all its offices and 

encouraging the employees at all levels to achieve 

the targets set in the Annual Official Language 

Programme issued by Department of Official 

Language, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government 

of India. Various Hindi workshops and meetings 

of the Official Language Implementation 

Committee were held regularly at the corporate 

offices as well as at all Regional Offices during 

the year. All the meetings at the corporate office 

were presided over by the Chairman of Official 

Language Implementation Committee, HUDCO 

and at Regional Offices, by the respective 

Regional Chiefs. To encourage use of Hindi in 

various official work, monthly competition were 

organized at the corporate office. Rajbhasa 

pakhwara was organised at the Corporate Office 

as well as in its Regional Offices. In order to 

promote use of Hindi in official work, various 

competitions were organized during the Rajbhasa 

Pakhwara at its corporate office as well as 

Regional offices. Inspection were conducted at 

Goa, Thiruvananthpuram, Regional Offices 

during June 2006 and December 2006 

respectively to ascertain implementation of Official 

Language policy. The Committee of Parliament 

on Official Language had inspected on Goa and 

Thiruvananthpuram Regional offices on 12-9- 

2006 and 18-1-2007 respectively. On inspection 

the Committee expressed satisfaction on the use 

of Hindi in both offices. In recognition of our efforts 

towards progressive use of Hindi in HUDCO, our 

Regional Offices at Thiruvannanthpuram and 

Lucknow were awarded by NARAKAS. 

45 

45


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

15.4 Important Audit Paras pertaining to 

HUDCO 

15.4.1 15.4.1 CA CAG CA G P PPara 

P ara No. No. 24.1.1 24.1.1 – “Avoidable 

Expenditure Due to not Retaining Call Option in 

Bonds Issue” 

Para: ara: Housing and Urban Development 

Corporation Limited did not retain a call option 

in its infrastructure bonds issue, inspite of expert 

advice. Accordingly, the Company had to service 

the high interest borrowings in an era of falling 

interest rates, which resulted in an avoidable 

interest expenditure of Rs. 48.98 crore. 

HUDCO HUDCO’S HUDCO ’S REPLIES REPLIES: REPLIES 

While concluding as above, Audit has not 

considered HUDCO’s requirement of long term 

funds for financing infrastructure projects with long 

repayment period of 10-15 years, which would 

not have been met if call option had been inserted. 

The decision regarding fixation of coupon rates 

and tenures was also guided by HUDCO’s lending 

rates, the prevailing coupon rates in the market 

for similar Rated bonds and the Credit rating of 

its bonds. Though SBI Capital Markets Ltd., the 

lead manager (expert) to the issue had suggested 

(after preliminary discussions) incorporation of 

call/put option in the Issue Structure, in June 

1996, the actual issue structure and “Draft 

Prospectus” indicating “not retaining of call 

option” was finalized by SBI Capital Markets Ltd 

(after detailed discussions of several rounds, 

keeping in view the peculiarity of Hudco 

operations and market conditions etc.) nearer to 

the launch of the bond issue (Feb 1997). The same 

was dully approved by the HUDCO’s Board of 

Directors. Further, Hudco was benefited in the long 

run since funds borrowed @ 15% through 

infrastructure bonds were deployed in projects 

giving returns, of 16.50% or higher rates of 

interest. 

15.4.2 15.4.2 15.4.2 CA CAG CA G P PPara 

P ara No. No. 24.1.2 24.1.2- 24.1.2 “Avoidable 

Interest Liability Due to Acceptance of over 

Subscription at Higher Rates of Interest.” 

Para: ara: Housing and Urban Development 

Corporation Limited did not consider the 

downward trend of interest rates and accepted 

over subscription of Rs. 137.51 crore at higher 

rates of interest. Consequently, it incurred extra 

expenditure of Rs. 13.29 crore till October 2005 

and committed future liability of Rs. 17.37 crore 

towards interest over the remaining tenure of 

bonds. 

HUDCO HUDCO’S HUDCO ’S REPLIES REPLIES: REPLIES 

While concluding as above, Audit has not 

considered that the precise forecasting of trend 

of interest rates is never possible. Moreover Hudco 

always has a requirement of long term funds to 

match the long term financing of infrastructure 

and housing projects. Further the decisions 

regarding amount to be mobilized during an issue, 

coupon rate, tenor etc. have to be taken on the 

basis of market offering at that moment and the 

need for funds of the company. At no stage, Hudco 

decided to retain all the amount bidded which 

could have actually created mere additional 

interest liability. The decision to retain Rs. 637.51 

crore (against total offer of Rs. 835.66 crore), 

through book building was judiciously taken while 

maintaining a balance between the requirement 

of funds and also at the same time containing 

the cost of funds. Hence it may not be fair to 

calculate gain or loss retrospectively for the issue. 

46 46 46 




16. National Buildings Organisation 

16.1 16.1 NBO is an attached office working under 

the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty 

Alleviation (HUPA),was restructured in March 

2006 the mandate is revised keeping in view 

with the current requirements under the National 

Housing Policy, and various socio-economic and 

statistical functions connected with housing and 

building activities. 

16.2 16.2 The mandate of the National Buildings 

Organisation in its restructured form is as follows: 

(a) To collect, collate, validate, analyse, 

disseminate and publish the housing and 

building construction statistics. 

(b) To organize training programmes for the 

officers and staff of the State Govts. 

engaged in collection and dissemination of 

housing and building construction statistics. 

(c) To create and manage a documentation 

centre relating to housing, poverty, slums 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

and infrastructure related statistics. 

(d) To coordinate with all the State 

Governments / Research Institutions / 

UNCHS/ International Bodies etc. as being 

a nodal agency in the field to cater to the 

statistical needs of the planners, policy 

makers and research organization in the 

field of housing and related infrastructural 

facilities. 

(e) To conduct regular short-term sample 

surveys in various pockets of the country to 

study the impact of the plan schemes which 

are being run by this Ministry by utilizing 

the service of the staff so employed on 

contractual basis. At least two such studies 

will be conducted in a year. 

(f) To undertake special Socio-Economic 

studies evaluating the impact of the plans, 

policies and programmes in the field of 

housing and infrastructure, as and when 

required, by the Ministry for which the 

Release of NBO Publication “Compendium on Urban Poverty & Urban Slums” by 

Dr.Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy.Chairman, Planning Commission during the 1 st Asia 

Pacific Ministerial Conference 

47 

47


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation at the NBO Display during 1 st Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference, 

Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi 

additional funds will be provided by the 


16.3 16.3 16.3 The National Building Organisation has 

carried out the following major activities during 

the last 9 months (01/01/06 to 31/12/06). 

16.3.1 16.3.1 T TTechnical 

T echnical Advisory Advisory Committee Committee (T (TAC) (T C) C) 

Report eport eport: eport As per the recommendations of the 

National Statistical Commission to look into the 

various aspects of the construction sector, a 

Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on 

Construction Statistics under the Chairmanship 

of Addl. Director General, CSO, Ministry of 

Statistics and Programme Implementation was 

constituted . The Technical Advisory committee 

has submitted its report and same was accepted 

by the government. Necessary steps have been 

taken for implementation of the TAC 

recommendations. 

16.3.2 16.3.2 Schedule Schedule T TTabulation 

T abulation and and Analysis Analysis 

Analysis 

through through Outsourcing: Outsourcing: For analysing and 

tabulating approximately twenty lakhs Schedules 

on Building construction data relating to 6 years 

NBO has selected Interra Infotech Software 

company to carry out this assignment. The 

tabulation work is in progress. 

Release of NBO Publication “Report of the Technical Group on Estimation of Urban 

Housing Shortage” by Dr.Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy.Chairman, Planning 

Commission during the 1 st Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference 

48 48 48 




16.3.3 16.3.3 16.3.3 State State L LLevel 

L evel W WWorkshops 

W Workshops 

orkshops on on Housing Housing & 

& 

Building Building Statistics: Statistics: NBO has Organised three 

training camps (Kohima, Pondicherrty, Goa) to 

impart training to the officials of State/LSGD/State 

PSU/other state construction agencies engaged 

in collection of housing statistics. 

16.3.4 16.3.4 Committees Committees & & R RReports 

R eports eports: eports A Technical Group 

on estimation of the Housing Shortage was 

constituted in NBO to estimate the housing 

shortage and housing requirement at the national 

and state level in urban areas during the 11th Plan 

(2007-2012) period. The report submitted by 

the technical group in September 2006 was 

accepted by the Government. 

16.3.5 16.3.5 16.3.5 P PPublication: 

P ublication: During this period the 

following publications have been brought out by 

NBO:- 

(a) Housing Statistics – An Overview 2006. 

(b) Report of the Technical Group on 

ESTIMATION OF HOUSING SHORTAGE 

(c) Compendium on Urban Poverty and Urban 

Slum 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Foreign delegates visiting NBO Display during 1 st Asia Pacific Ministerial 

Conference, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi 

16.4 NBO Role in Jawaharlal Nehru 

National Urban Renewal Mission 

(JNNURM) Activities 

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal 

Mission Activities (JNNURM) was launched by 

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India on 3 rd December, 

2005 for 63 Mission Cities. Mission has got two 

Sub-Missions viz. Urban Infrastructure and 

Governance which is looked after by Ministry of 

Urban Development & Sub-Mission- II Basic 

Services for Urban Poor which is looked after by 

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. 

National Buildings Organisation (NBO) has been 

entrusted with the following task under JNNURM: 

a. To look after MIS Cell for JNNURM 

(including Data Centre and E-Governance 

Unit). 

b. To act as a Nodal Agency for receipt of all 

Projects Reports under BSUP and IHSDP and 

getting them appraised by BMTPC, 

HUDCO, NBCC etc. 

c. To co-ordinate all capacity building 

49 

49


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

programmes concerning project 

preparation, appraisal and reforms 

pertaining to JNNURM traning of Municpal 

Officers, Implementing BSUP, IHSDP etc. 

16.5 16.5 16.5 The following activities are proposed to be 

carried out by National Building Organisation is 

in the next three months (01/01/07 (01/01/07 to 31/3/07): 31/3/07): 

31/3/07): 

16.5.1 16.5.1 Training raining camps camps It is proposed to conduct 

two more training camps to impart training to the 

officials of State/LSGD/State PSU/other state 

construction agencies engaged in collection of 

housing statistics. 

16.5.2 16.5.2 Publication: 

ublication: Handbook of Housing 

Statistics 2007 will be brought out by the end of 

March 2007. 

16.5.3 16.5.3 Resource esource / / Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge Centre Centre 

Centre In NBO 

a separate Cell will be established which will be 

hub for Urban Housing, Urban Poverty and Urban 

Slums Statistics/data. 

16.5.4 16.5.4 Setting up of National Data Centre on 

issues relating to Urban Poverty, Slums and 

Housing. 

16.5.5 16.5.5 Setting up of National Resource Centre 

on Issues relating to Urban Poverty, Slums and 

Housing. 

16.6 Details of activities undertaken for 

implementation of Citizen Charter in 

National Buildings Organisation; 

i) The Citizen Charter is already uploaded 

on the website of NBO (www.nbo.nic.in) 

ii) One officer of the rank of Deputy Director 

is notified as a Public Grievances Officer 

for public grievances. 

iii) It is proposed to print the Citizen Charter of 

the Organisation in all future publications 

of NBO. 

An expenditure of Rs.1,44,32,427/=(One Crore 

and forty four Lakhs and thirty two Thousand four 

Hundred and twenty seven only.) have been used 

till 31 /12/06 out of the total allocated Rs.2.00 

Crore for the year 2006-2007 (Plan) 

In so for Non Plan is concerned, Rs.71,02,486/ 

=(Seventy one Lakhs and two thousand four 

hundred and eighty six only) have been spent so 

for out of the total allocation of Rs.1,00,00000/ 

=(One Crore.) for the year 2006-07. 


Poverty Alleviation dealt the press during Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference 

50 50 50 







Table 1 

Growth of Population (1901-2001) 


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Year ear Total otal Rural ural %age %age share share Urban Urban 

%age %age share 

share 

1901 1901 

238.4 212.6 89.2 25.8 10.8 

1911 1911 

252.1 226.2 89.7 25.9 10.3 

1921 1921 

251.3 223.2 88.8 28.1 11.2 

1931 1931 

278.9 245.5 88.0 33.4 12.0 

1941 1941 

318.6 274.5 86.2 44.1 13.9 

1951 1951 

361.1 298.7 82.7 62.4 17.3 

1961 1961 

439.2 360.3 82.0 78.9 18.0 

1971 1971 

548.2 439.1 80.1 109.1 19.9 

1981@ 1981@ 

683.3 523.8 76.7 159.5 23.3 

1991* 1991* 1991* 

846.3 628.7 74.3 217.6 25.7 

(In (In Million) 

Million) 

2001 2001 2001 

1028.6 742.5 72.2 286.1 27.8 

Source: Source: R RRegistrar 

R egistrar General General General of of India 

India 

@ Includes projected population of Assam where 1981 census was not conducted. 

* Includes projected population of J & K where 1991 census was not conducted. 

51 

51


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Table 2 

Growth of Urban Agglomerations & Towns by Size 

Class/Category during 1901-2001 

(In (In Numbers) 

Numbers) 

Year ear Class/Category Class/Category of of Cities/T Cities/Towns 

Cities/T Cities/Towns 

owns 

All All Classes Classes Class Class -I -I Class Class -II -II Class Class-III Class -III Class Class Class-IV Class -IV Class Class - --V 

- Class Class-VI Class VI 

1901 1901 1917 25 44 144 427 771 503 

1911 1911 1909 26 38 158 388 750 546 

1921 1921 2047 29 49 172 395 773 626 

1931 1931 2219 31 59 218 479 849 580 

1941 1941 2424 49 88 273 554 979 478 

1951 1951 3060 76 111 374 675 1195 629 

1961 1961 2700 107 139 518 820 848 268 

1971 1971 3126 151 219 652 988 820 296 

1981* 1981* 3949 226 325 883 1247 920 348 

1991** 1991** 4615 322 421 1161 1451 973 287 

2001 2001 2001 5161 441 496 1388 1561 1041 234 

Size class by population 


R egistrar General General of of of India 

India 

I – 100000 & above, II – 50000 – 99999, III – 20000-49999 

IV – 10000-19999 V – 5000-9999 VI – Less than 5000 

* Excludes figures for Assam where census of 1981 was not held. 

** Excludes figures of Jammu & Kashmir where census of 1991 was not conducted. 

52 52 52 







Table 3 

Number of Houseless Households & Houseless Population 

Year ear Houseless Houseless Households Households 

Houseless Houseless P PPopulation 

P opulation 


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Total otal Rural ural Urban Urban Total otal Rural ural ural Urban 

Urban 

1961 1961 

… … … 12.65 9.70 1.95 

1971 1971 5.65 3.88 1.77 19.86 15.20 4.66 

1981 1981 6.16 4.13 2.03 23.43 17.24 6.19 

1991 1991 5.22 3.05 2.17 20.07 12.82 7.25 

2001 2001 4.48 2.60 1.88 19.44 11.65 7.89 

(In (In lakh) 

lakh) 


R egistrar General General of of India 

India 

53 

53


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Table 4 

Housing Stock, Households And Housing Shortage 

In Urban India, 1991-2007 

1991 1991 1997 1997 1997 1998 1998 1999 1999 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2007 

2007 

Pucca ucca 29.8 40.07 42.13 44.28 46.55 41.17 47.49 

Semi Semi Semi P PPucca 

P Pucca 

ucca 6.2 6.64 6.72 6.80 6.83 8.08 9.16 

Kutcha utcha 3.2 3.35 3.37 3.40 3.42 2.74 2.18 

Households Households 40.7 50.08 51.85 53.67 55.56 55.8 66.30 

Housing Housing shortage shortage shortage 8.23 7.57 7.36 7.18 6.93 10.56 24.71 

(In (In Million) 

Million) 

Source: Source: National National Buildings Buildings Organisation 

Organisation 

54 54 54 







Table 5 

Urban Housing Shortage in India by States 

2001 2001 

2007 

2007 

State Urban Urban 

Andhra Pradesh 0.95 1.95 

Arunachal Pradesh 0.02 0.02 

Assam 0.14 0.31 

Bihar 0.35 0.59 

Chhatisgarh 0.08 0.36 

Goa 0.02 0.07 

Gujarat 0.99 1.66 

Haryana 0.21 0.52 

Himacal Pradesh 0.01 0.06 

Jammu Kashmir 0.07 0.18 

Jharkhand 0.11 0.47 

Karnataka 0.66 1.63 

Kerala 0.31 0.76 

Madhya Pradesh 0.39 1.29 

Maharastra 1.37 3.72 

Manipur 0.03 0.05 

Meghalaya 0.02 0.04 

Mizoram 0.01 0.04 

Nagaland 0.00 0.03 

Orissa 0.37 0.50 

Punjab 0.21 0.69 

Rajasthan 0.30 1.00 

Sikkim 0.00 0.01 

Tamil Nadu 1.54 2.82 

Tripura 0.03 0.06 

Uttar Pradesh 1.04 2.38 

Uttaranchal 0.08 0.18 

West Bengal 0.64 2.04 

A& N Islands 0.01 0.01 

Chandigarh 0.02 0.08 

D & Nagar Haveli 0.00 0.01 

Daman & Diu 0.00 0.01 

Delhi 0.53 1.13 

Lakshawdeep 0.00 0.00 

Pondicherry 0.03 0.06 

All India 10.56 24.71 


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

(in (in million) 

million) 

Source Source : : National National Buildings Buildings Buildings Organisation 

Organisation 

55 

55


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Table 6 

Population Total Population of States/Union Territories by Sex and Percentage 

Share of Population in Total Population - 2001 

India/State/UT 

India/State/UTs India/State/UT 

Total otal P PPopulation 

P opulation % % % share share in in 

in 

Persons ersons ersons Males Males 

Females emales Total otal P PPopulation 

P opulation 

1 2 3 4 5 

India India 

1028610328 532156772 496453556 100.00 

Andhra Andhra P PPradesh 

P radesh 76210007 38527413 37682594 7.41 

Arunachal Arunachal P PPradesh 

P radesh 1097968 579941 518027 0.11 

Assam Assam 

26655528 13777037 12878491 2.59 

Bihar Bihar 

82998509 43243795 39754714 8.07 

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh 

20833803 10474218 10359585 2.03 

Goa Goa 

1347668 687248 660420 0.13 

Gujarat Gujarat 

50671017 26385577 24285440 4.93 

Haryana Haryana 

21144564 11363953 9780611 2.06 

Himachal Himachal Himachal P PPradesh 

P radesh 6077900 3087940 2989960 0.59 

Jammu Jammu Jammu & & K KKashmir 

K ashmir 10143700 5360926 4782774 0.99 

Jharkhand Jharkhand 

26945829 13885037 13060792 2.62 

Karnataka arnataka arnataka 52850562 26898918 25951644 5.14 

Kerala erala 31841374 15468614 16372760 3.10 

Madhya Madhya P PPradesh 

P radesh 60348023 31443652 28904371 5.87 

Maharashtra Maharashtra 

96878627 50400596 46478031 9.42 

Manipur Manipur 

2166788 1095634 1071154 0.21 

Meghalaya Meghalaya Meghalaya 

2318822 1176087 1142735 0.23 

Mizoram Mizoram 

888573 459109 429464 0.09 

Nagaland Nagaland 

1990036 1047141 942895 0.19 

Orissa Orissa 

36804660 18660570 18144090 3.58 

Punjab unjab 24358999 12985045 11373954 2.37 

Rajasthan ajasthan 56507188 29420011 27087177 5.49 

Sikkim Sikkim 

540851 288484 252367 0.05 

Tamil amil Nadu Nadu 

62405679 31400909 31004770 6.07 

Tripura ripura 3199203 1642225 1556978 0.31 

Uttar Uttar Uttar P PPradesh 

P Pradesh 

radesh 166197921 87565369 78632552 16.16 

Uttaranchal Uttaranchal 

8489349 4325924 4163425 0.83 

West est Bengal Bengal 

80176197 41465985 38710212 7.79 

Andamans Andamans & & & Nicobar Nicobar Islands Islands 356152 192972 163180 0.03 

Chandigarh Chandigarh 

900635 506938 393697 0.09 

D D & & Nagar Nagar Haveli Haveli 

Haveli 

220490 121666 98824 0.02 

Daman Daman & & Diu Diu 

158204 92512 65692 0.02 

Delhi Delhi 

13850507 7607234 6243273 1.35 

Lakshadweep 

akshadweep 60650 31131 29519 0.01 

Pondicherry ondicherry 974345 486961 487384 0.09 

56 56 56 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 


R egistrar General General of of India 

India 

57 

57


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

17. 17. Hindustan Hindustan Pr Prefab Pr efab Limited Limited (HPL) 

(HPL) 

17.1. 17.1. 17.1.Hindustan 17.1. 17.1. Prefab Limited is functioning 

under the administrative control of Ministry of 

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation a 

Government of India Enterprise since 1955. The 

Company has its registered office and Factory at 

Jangpura, New Delhi 110014 

17.2.MANAGEMENT 

The Company is managed by a Board of 

Directors. It had 359 regular, 25 contract and 

32 employees appointed on compassionate 

grounds employees on its rolls as on 31.12.2006. 

Full Time CMD took over the charge of company 

w.e.f. 1.8.2006. Company extended Voluntary 

Retirement Scheme up to 31.12.2006. 11 

employees availed VRS during the period under 

report. Board of Director in their meeting held 

on 26/8/2006 closed VRS/VSS Scheme to Group 

A & B officers and kept the same open up to 

31.12.2006 for group C & D only excluding 

Junior Engineers. 

17.3.OPERATIONAL AREAS 

a) a) Construction Construction works works at at Jangpura Jangpura factory: 

factory: 

i) Prestressed Cement Concrete Rly 

Sleepers. 

ii) Rly Bridge slabs/ballast retainers. 

iii) Prestressed cement concrete electric 

poles. 

iv) Light weight autoclaved cellular 

concrete blocks for insulation and 

partition walls etc. 

b) b) Technical echnical Services Services Services: Services Testing of concrete 

cubes/bricks and other building materials 

at its modern laboratory. 

c) c) Maintenance of Buildings. 

17.4. 17.4.Company 17.4. undertakes maintenance of 

Residential and Office Buildings. 

17.5. 17.5. 17.5.The 17.5. 17.5. Company’s authorized and paid-up 

capital stands at Rs. 10 Crores and Rs. 6.97 

Crores respectively. The loan liability to the 

government is Rs.46.07 Cr. Crores excluding 

interest of Rs. 62.83 Crores thereon as on 

31.12.2006. 

17.6.PERFORMANCE DURING 2005-06 

UPTO 31.12.2006 

Turnover urnover (Rs. Rs. Rs. In In In L LLacs 

L acs acs) acs 

a) Factory turnover 0.13 

b) Construction works 1180.69 

1181.82 

1181.82 

View of Police Station Complex, Mandir Marg, New Delhi 

58 58 58 




Due to lack of Working Capital the turnover was 

affected adversely. 

17.7 ORDER BOOK POSITION: 

The net value of orders to be executed as on 

01.01.2007 

(Rs. (Rs. In In Crores) 

Crores) 

a) Factory 1.30 

b) Construction works 123.84 

125.14 

125.14 

In addition, Govt. of Rajasthan has decided to 

award works in Alwar, Jaipur Districts etc. on 

turnkey basis. Estimated cost of EPFO Vellore 

works (Ph-I) is Rs.3.00 Crores. Similarly Govt. of 

Meghalaya has also decided to award work on 

turnkey basis. Together the estimated value is 

Rs.400 Crores. 

17.8.INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: 

A cordial atmosphere prevails on the industrial 

relations scene. 

17.9.FAMILY WELFARE: 

A. Number of persons who adopted small 

family norms during the preceding year was 

02 Employees were benefited by way of cash 

incentive, one additional increment and 

special casual leave. 

B. 2 employees with disabilities availed 

disability benefit during the year. 

17.10 VIGILANCE: 

Security arrangements have been tightened. 

Effective steps were taken for preventive vigilance 

detective surveillance and punitive action. Surprise 

checks; were conducted by the Chief Vigilance 

Officer. Shri M. Kundu was appointed as CVO 

and Shri N K Gupta as VO of this company. 




17.11 WELFARE OF SC/STs : 


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

a) Activities of the special cell set-up under 

the control of Liaison Officer. 

SC/ST Cell set-up under the control of the Liaison 

Officer continued to keep watch over the 

implementation aspects of reservation of posts in 

the Company as per Government’s directives. 

Rosters were maintained as per Government 

directives. Backlog vacancies have been cleared 

for the posts where eligible candidates are 

available. Shri R Sridharan, Sr. Engg(C) remained 

Liaison officer SC/ST cell-up to 31.5.2006 

thereafter Shri M Gupta was appointed as Liaison 

Officer of SC /ST Cell. Roaster for back log 

vacancies in respect of SC/ST have been got 

checked and certified from Shri Variyam Singh, 

Ex. Dy. Director of National Common of 

Scheduled Caste. Last meeting of the members 

of SC/ST Welfare association was held with Liaison 

Officer on 9 th December 2006. During the year 

following Welfare activities pertaining to SC/ST 

were undertaken. 

a) 10 Vacancies filled by promotion. 

b) A Cell under the liaison Officer has been 

set up to look into the grievances of SC/ST 

employees. Last meeting of members of 

SC/ST Welfare association was held with 

Liaison Officer on 9 th Dec. 06, 

c) Roster inspected by Liaison Officer on 9 th 

Dec 2006. 

d) i) Appreciation /orientation courses for 

SC/ST conducted for various level 

officers. Out of 17 Nos. employees 

who attending the upgradation 

training course, 09 nos. employees 

belong to SC/ST communities. 

ii) Computer Course Training was given 

to 2 SC & 1 ST Candidate. 

59 

59


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

e) Nil 

f) Advance of Rs. 3, 76,100/- (Rs. Three lacs 

Seventy Six Thousand one hundred only) 

were disbursed up to 31 st Dec. 2006. 

g) Activities relating to Tribal sub-plan and 

special component plan for SC/ST are a 

subject of State Govt. However Scheme of 

special interest-free advance to the 

employees belonging to SC/ST and weaker 

sections of society continued. A total 

amount of of Rs Rs 13.71 13.71 lacs was advanced to 

SC/ST communities during 01.04.2006 

to 31.12.2006 as per given below:- 

Paid aid No. No. No. of of 

employees 

employees 

(SC/ST) 

(SC/ST) 

Amount 

Amount 

Annual Advance 104 6, 76,000 

SC/ST Advance 95 5, 61,600 

Festival Advance 70 1, 05,000 

Cycle Advance 20 28,500 

13, 13, 13, 71,100 

71,100 

17.12 ABATEMENT OF POLLUTION 

FOR ENVIRONMENT: 

HPL took the following steps for the abatement of 

pollution for environment 

i) Park maintained near Office building and 

in front of Labour office. 

ii) New park developed in front of Main Gate 

and about 200 nos. new plants planted. 

17.13 USE OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: 

Various steps have been taken for propagation 

of Official language in HPL. During this period, 

three meetings were held on 30.06.2006, 

25.09.2006 and 30.12.2006, which were 

attended by HOD’s. Hindi weeks were observed 

in the months of June & Dec. 2006. However 

expenditure incurred on purchase of Hindi Book 

is nil. 

17.14 NATIONAL INTEGRATION 

The company is observing Anti terrorism day, 

Sadbhawana Diwas and Quami Ekta Diwas every 

year. 

17.15.ISO CERTIFICATION 

Company is now ISO-9001 Certified and keeping 

the documents/records as per the requirement of 

ISO. Audit was done for the renewal of certification 

for the year 2006 on 27/10/2006. 

i) Designing and production of all precast 

concrete components & joinery items; 

ii) Planning, Designing & Construction Civil 

Engineering Projects; 

iii) Testing of various Civil Engineering raw 

materials and products; 

iv) Design of concrete Mixes. 

4 th Surveillance Audit along with awareness 

programme was conducted by the Auditors of ISO 

certifying Authority NQAQSR Certification Private 

Ltd M-64 Greater Kailash-II, New Delhi. 

17.16 DETAILS OF NORTH –EAST 

ACTIVITIES IN HPL 

HPL has been awarded the construction of cost 

effective houses for Safai Karamchari’s in 

Arunachal Pradesh by Ministry of HUPA. The work 

involves Civil Construction at Site located in 

Itanagar, Passighat, Twang, Seepa, Roing, 

Deporizho. The works have started at these sites. 

60 60 60 




18. Building Materials & Technology 

Promotion Council (BMTPC) 

Building Materials and Technology Promotion 

Council (BMTPC) was established in 1990-91 to 

bridge the gap between laboratory development 

and field application of innovative building 

materials and technologies. BMTPC in its 

endevour to promote the use of innovative and 

environment-friendly building materials and 

construction technologies, has initiated series of 

activities for the accomplishment of multi-faceted 

objects, enshrined in the mandate of the Council. 

Over the years, the Council has focused on the 

promotion and development of the innovative, 

cost-effective, environment-friendly and energyefficient 

building materials and technologies. 

However, off late with the active support of Ministry 

of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Council 

has also embarked upon the field level application 

of innovative building materials and technologies 

by way of implementation of the mass housing 

projects under the VAMBAY Scheme. The activities 

of the Council are structured in such a manner 

that it not only focuses on the various operational 

areas of the Council but also leads to the tangible 

results with societal benefits. In view of the 

changing scenario in the housing sector, the 

Council in recent years has reoriented its 

approach towards promotion and marketing of 

technologies through intensive evaluation, 

dissemination and demonstration of cost effective 

building materials and construction techniques. 

The role of the Council in the light of this new 

strategy is reflected in the following objectives: 

1. To promote development, production, 

standardisation and large-scale field 

application of cost-effective innovative 

building materials and construction 

technologies in housing and building sector. 

2. To promote manufacturing of new waste- 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

based building materials and components 

through technical support, facilitating fiscal 

concessions and encouraging entrepreneurs 

to set up production units in different urban 

and rural regions. 

3. To develop and promote methodologies 

and technologies for natural disaster 

mitigation, vulnerability & risk reduction and 

retrofitting/ reconstruction of buildings and 

disaster resistant planning of human 

settlements. 

4. To provide support to professionals, 

construction agencies and entrepreneurs in 

selection, evaluation, upscaling, design 

engineering, skill-upgradation, and 

marketing for technology transfer from lab 

to land in the area of building materials 

and construction. 

Major initiatives and activities undertaken in 

2006-2007 (upto December, 2006) 

18.1 Disaster Mitigation, Management and 

Preparedness 

1. As a follow up of Yokohama strategy for 

safer world during Mid term review of International 

Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) 

1990-2000, the then Ministry of Urban 

Development constituted an Expert Group (1994) 

to prepare the first ever Vulnerability Atlas of India. 

This Atlas prepared in 1997 by BMTPC contains 

hazard maps with respect to earthquakes, cyclones 

and floods and district wise risk tables of housing 

stock. Since its publication, the Atlas has proved 

to be a very effective initial tool for pre-disaster 

mitigation and preparation planning of the 

Government. 

61 

61


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Release of digitised version of 

Vulnerability Atlas of India during Asia 

Pacific Ministerial Conference 

Considering the formation of new states and 

districts, changes in earthquake hazard zonation 

Maps, changes in flood scenario, availability of 

seismo-tectonic details, updated storm surge data 

from IMD, changes in housing scenario, Ministry 

of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation set up 

multidisciplinary Peer Group under the 

chairmanship of Prof. A.S. Arya, National Seismic 

Advisor with experts from other concerned 

organizations to revise and update the Atlas. 

The revised Atlas, prepared by BMTPC is the 

outcome of detailed study of all the available data 

in a series of meetings and dialogue by the Peer 

Group. This Atlas contains digitized hazard maps 

with respect to earthquakes, cyclones, floods and 

district wise risk tables of housing stocks as per 

Census 2001. This also includes Landslide hazard 

maps and a chapter on Tsunami. 

The revised Atlas, with latest information on the 

possible intensities in the event of natural hazards 

and resulting risk level to housing and buildings 

will be very useful in our future disaster 

management planning and preparedness. 

The Peer Group constituted by the Ministry of 

HUPA submitted its report to the Ministry on 9 th 

October, 2006. The revised Vulnerability Atlas of 

India has also been printed and the publication 

was released by Shri S.Jaipal Reddy, Hon’ble 

Minister of Urban Development in the gracious 

presence of Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of State 

(IC) for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation during 

the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing 

and Human Settlements on 13 th December, 2006. 

2. An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 (Richter 

Scale) struck on 8th October, 2005 with epicenter 

located at Muzzafarabad in Pakistan, just near 

the LOC, only 140 km from Srinagar. The impact 

of earthquake was so intensive that it caused 

extensive damages in the State of Jammu & 

Kashmir and mainly in Baramula and Kupwara 

districts of Kashmir valley. 

BMTPC represented the Ministry of Housing & 

Urban Poverty Alleviation, Govt. of India, in the 

Central Team to have on the spot assessment of 

the situation in the wake of earthquake in Jammu 

& Kashmir. During the visit, Sub-District hospital 

in Kupwara, which has suffered damage due to 

Retrofitted Sub-Divisional Hospital Building at Kupwara, Jammu & Kashmir 

62 62 62 




Retrofitted MCD School at Vasant Vihar, 

New Delhi 

earthquake, was visited by BMTPC official along 

with Dr.A.S.Arya, National Seismic Advisor, GOI. 

It was observed that the hospital had number of 

deficiencies in so far safety against earthquake 

are concerned. During the discussion with 

Divisional Commissioner, Srinagar and 

Dr.A.S.Arya, it was suggested that the hospital 

being a lifeline building could be taken for seismic 

strengthening by BMTPC to demonstrate the 

retrofitting techniques for safety against 

earthquakes. 

The retrofitting work of Sub Divisional Hospital 

Building at Kupwara has been completed. Local 

public, hospital staff, security staff etc. showed 

keen interest in knowing details of retrofitting 

techniques. Posters prepared for dissemination of 

information regarding earthquake resistant 

construction deployed in hospital building 

attracted good response from general public. It 

has generated awareness about safe construction 

practice in Kupwara. 

A set of 10 posters describing techniques of 

retrofitting and booklet titled “Simple ways to 

Earthquake Safety” for earthquake resistant 

construction of houses using local materials in 

Jammu & Kashmir region, both in Urdu and 

English language, were also printed and circulated 

widely in earthquake affected areas of Jammu & 

Kashmir. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Training Course on “Earthquake Resistant 

Design and Construction of Buildings”, New 

Delhi, 18 - 22 September 2006, orgaised in 

collaboration with IIT – Roorkee. 

The Council alongwith IIT Roorkee provided 

training to 300 engineers in earthquake affected 

region in disaster mitigation and management 

techniques. 

3. In most of the disasters resulting from 

earthquakes, the inadequacy of the buildings, to 

standup against the seismic forces is the single 

most cause of the loss of life and loss of property. 

In recent earthquakes, number of lives were lost 

under the debris of the buildings that collapsed 

in the quake. It is certainly important to ensure 

that the new structures are adequately strong. But 

even more important is to strengthen or retrofit 

the existing structures, especially the public 

buildings like schools, community centres, primary 

health centres, anganwadis, etc. as also the place 

of work. The mitigation measures in the form of 

retrofitting could significantly reduce chances of 

collapse in the event of future earthquake thus 

saving human lives. 

Keeping this in mind, BMTPC has taken lead to 

carry out the retrofitting of 12 MCD school 

buildings, one in each 12 Municipal wards in 

Delhi, so that the awareness could be generated 

among the people as well as various government 

agencies about the need and techniques of 

retrofitting. With the help of MCD Officials, 

schools have been identified for retrofitting. To 

63 

63


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Technical Workshop on Model Amendments in Town & Country Planning Act, Zoning 

Regulations, Development Control Regulations/Byelaws 

at Aizawl, Mizoram and Kohima, Nagaland 

begin with, seismic strengthening and retrofitting 

of MCD School building at Indian Airlines Colony, 

Vasant Vihar was initiated and the work has been 

completed. During the retrofitting local MCD 

engineers and contractors were also trained. Four 

more schools have been surveyed and retrofitting 

plan has been worked out. Retrofitting of these 

schools will be started shortly. 

4. MHA sponsored one day Technical 

Workshops on Model Amendments in Town and 

Country Planning Act, Zoning Regulation, 

Development & Control Regulation and Building 

Regulation for safety against natural hazards was 

organized by BMTPC in: 

a. Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh (April 25, 

2006), 

b. Imphal, Manipur (August 21, 2006), 

c. Aizawl, Mizoram (October 24, 2006) and 

d. Kohima, Nagaland (November 23, 2006). 

Officials from various state Govt. departments 

including engineers and architects attended these 

workshops. State Governments are taking actions 

to modify their respective bye-laws on the basis 

of recommendations of the Expert Group set by 

MHA. 

18.2 Human Settlements and Building 

Design 

1. Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation has entrusted BMTPC with Construction 

of Demonstration Houses using Cost-Effective 

Building Materials and Disaster Resistant 

Construction Technologies under Valmiki 

Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) - now merged 

with JNNURM. Presently, Under this project, 

demonstration houses are being constructed in 

five states as mentioned below: 

• 70 Demonstration houses in Nagpur, 

Maharashtra 

• 100 Demonstration houses in Dehradun, 

Uttaranchal 

• 100 Demonstration houses in Bilaspur, 

Chhattisgarh 

• 70 Demonstration houses in Kudulu, 

Karnataka 

• 100 Demonstration houses in Trichi, 

Tamilnadu 

The status on various projects is as under: 

Nagpur Nagpur : The construction of 70 dwelling units 

have been completed including laying of internal 

services. The houses are ready for possession. 

Uttaranchal Uttaranchal : With completion of finishing work 

and laying of internal services for all 100 

constructed units, these units are now ready for 

possession. 

Kudalu udalu & & T TTrichy 

T richy richy: richy The masonry work of all 70 units 

at Kudalu site upto roof level has been completed. 

The superstructure work of all 100 units at Trichy 

site is in progress. 

Bilaspur Bilaspur : The superstructure work in six blocks 

64 64 64 





constructed by BMTPC at Nagpur, 

Maharashtra 


being constructed by BMTPC at Bilaspur, 

Chhatisgarh 

has reached upto lintel level. The masonry work 

in remaining six blocks above plinth level is in 

progress. 

2. The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 

Alleviation, Govt. of India, is implementing Basic 

Services to Urban Poor (BSUP), sub-component 

of recently launched Jawaharlal Nehru National 

Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). 

The Council has been designated as one of the 

Appraisal Agencies for appraisal of Detailed 

Project Reports received under BSUP from 

identified Mission Cities by the Ministry. So far, 

BMTPC has appraised 37 DPRs received from the 

States of Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Chandigarh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Nagaland. 

These were put up for the consideration of Central 

Sanctioning and Monitoring committee and these 

projects have been sanctioned. The state wise 

break up of these projects are as follows: 

State State No. No. of of P PProjects 

P rojects Project roject Amount Amount 

Amount 

(Rs. (Rs. (Rs. in in crores) 

crores) 

Andhra Pradesh 12 1110.20 

Gujarat 5 380.85 

Karnataka 2 234.45 

Madhya Pradesh 15 442.07 

Chandigarh 2 564.93 

Nagaland 1 147.00 

Total 37 2879.50 

BMTPC is also helping the Municipal Bodies and 

State Nodal Agencies in preparation and 

modifications of DPRs through various workshops, 

meets, etc. The Council has also received request 

from Orissa and North Eastern States to prepare 

DPRs for their States. 

The Council has actively taken part in the capacity 

building programmes organized by the Ministry 

of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation for the 

capacity building of the municipal functionaries 

in preparation of DPRs for the BSUP and IHSDP 

projects. Detailed presentation on preparation of 

DPRs for BSUP and IHSDP have been made in 

such programmes in Meghalaya, West Bengal, 

Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa. 

The Council is also being designated as a 

Monitoring Agency for monitoring of the projects 

in the States where the projects have been 

appraised by the Council. A detailed monitoring 

mechanism in consultation with the Ministry of 

HUPA is being evolved for effective monitoring of 

these projects. 

3. The Council provided technical support for 

construction of 3164 houses to Delhi State 

Industrial & Infrastructural Development 

65 

65


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Corporation (DSIIDC) at Bawana, Delhi. The new 

schemes have been initiated for construction of 

1892 units in Narela, 1200 units in Borgarh and 

1184 units in Bawana by DSIIDC. Greater Noida 

Industrial Development Authority has also initiated 

new scheme of 1848 EWS houses at Omicron-II, 

Greater Noida and 576 EWS houses at Dadra & 

Nagar Haveli by Omnibus Industrial Development 

Corporation, Govt. of Daman. 

4. BMTPC has been nominated as one of the 

expert Institutions for Evaluation of certain criteria 

under TERI-Griha (TERI-Green Rating for 

Integrated Habitat Assessment). The criteria to be 

evaluated by BMTPC are as follows; 

a. Efficient water use during construction 

b. Utilization of fly ash in building materials 

c. Use of paints/adhesives/sealants 

Preliminary evaluation of the project “Hitkarini 

College of Engineering & Technology”, Jabalpur 

submitted under TERI-Griha was done by BMTPC. 

18.3 Technology Development 

1. Under BMTPC supported project on Rice 

Husk Ash being implemented at Regional 

Research Laboratory (RRL), Thiruvananthapuram, 

10 kgs of reactive silica has been produced having 

potential of application in high performance 

concrete. Structural Engineering Research Institute, 

Chennai and Kerala Highway Research Institute, 

Trivandrum have been approached for industrial 

application tests of this rice husk ash and based 

on the facilities available SERC, Chennai has been 

selected for testing. Rice Mills Owners Consortium 

based in Kochi, Kerala has evinced interest in this 

technology to convert their husk to value added 

product. 

2. Design for fabrication of a prefab house 

using bamboo based technologies has been 

developed in collaboration with IPIRTI Bangalore. 

3. Development of design for construction of 

two-storey house using bamboo based 

technologies is under advanced stages. 

4. Developing a technology for light weight 

inter-locking block masonry for building 

construction jointly with IIT Madras. 

5. The Council has initiated a project for 

development of building components from granite 

industry waste. 

18.4 Network for Technology Transfer 

1. Apropos the visit of Indian delegation to 

Bhutan last year, the Govt. of Bhutan evinced their 

interest in setting up of Technology Demonstrationcum-Production 

Centre (TDPC) for cost effective 

and innovative building materials in Bhutan so 

that the demand of the building materials for the 

housing and building sector can be fulfilled. 

Subsequently, during the visit of the Secretary- 

HUPA to Bhutan, Executive Director, BMTPC and 

Chief (PM&T) visited Bhutan and an MoU was 

signed between the Secretary, Ministry of Housing 

& Urban Poverty Alleviation, GOI and the 

Secretary, Ministry of Works & Human Settlement, 

Govt. of Bhutan on May 15, 2006 for establishing 

a Technology Demonstration cum Production 

Centre in Gyelposhing, District Mongar, Bhutan 

with the technical assistance from BMTPC. The 

Secretary-HUPA also had a meeting with the Prime 

Minister of Royal Govt. of Bhutan, where issues 

Training Programme on Standards and 

Quality Control in Construction 

organised by BMTPC at Thimpu, Bhutan 

during May 16 - 18, 2006. 

66 66 66 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Signing of MoU by the Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, 

GOI and the Secretary, Ministry of Works & Human Settlement, Govt. of Bhutan on 

May 15, 2006 for establishing a Technology Demonstration cum Production Centre in 

Gyelposhing, District Mongar, Bhutan with the technical assistance from BMTPC. 

like vulnerability assessment of non-engineered 

buildings and issues related to urbanization were 

discussed vis-à-vis the JNNURM of the Ministry. 

BMTPC and SQCA organized a training 

programme on “Standards and Quality Control 

in Construction” on 16.5.2006 in Thimpu. The 

Secretary, HUPA, Government of India, 

inaugurated the Training Programme. The 

inaugural function was also attended by the 

Secretary, Ministry of Works & Human Settlements, 

Bhutan, ED-BMTPC, Director-SQCA and Dy. 

Chief of Mission, Indian Embassy, Thimpu, 

Bhutan. A presentation on housing technologies 

was made by BMTPC. About 40 engineers, 

architects and professionals from various 

Government departments, Private organizations 

and practicing professionals attended the training 

programme. 

2. The Council is establishing Technology 

Demonstration-cum-Production Centre in 

Panchkula in cooperation with DRDA, Panchkula, 

Government of Haryana. 

3. With the delivery and installation of Brick & 

Block Making Machine and Pan Mixer on July 

22, 2006 at Hindustan Prefab Ltd.(HPL), BMTPC’s 

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the 

Federative Republic of Brazil and the Government of the Republic of India on 

cooperation in the field of Human Settlements, January 2006, Brazil. 

67 

67


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

supported Fly Ash Brick Production cum 

Technology Demonstration centre at HPL has been 

established. Presently various production 

parameters are being optimized and trial 

production of Fly Ash bricks is going on. 

4. Coordinated the activities for the delegation 

from South Africa led by Hon’ble Minister for 

Housing. The delegation was also shown the low 

cost housing project for industrial workers at 

Bawana. 

5. BMTPC is in advanced stage of negotiation 

with the Chandigarh Housing Board for giving 

technologies for low cost housing. 

6. The Council has initiated a process for 

strengthening the Building Centres at Srinagar 

(Garhwal) and Raipur (Chhattisgarh). 

7. The Council has initiated preparation of 

video film on VAMBAY Projects. 

8. The Council has initiated a project for 

preparation of Comprehensive Guidelines for 

Green Habitat. A Core Group of Experts was 

initially constituted and two meetings were held 

at BMTPC office. The Group of Experts included 

professors from IIT- Delhi, UNDP consultant, an 

Environment specialist, practicing architects etc. 

A concept note for proposed activities under the 

subject was prepared and a proposal was 

submitted for the Ministry. The Ministry of Housing 

& Urban Poverty Alleviation, Govt. of India, has 

Demonstration of bamboo based technologies in Tripura and Mizoram 

Picnic Hut at Nehru Park, Agartala, Tripura Demonstration House at Udaipur, Tripura 

Model School Building at Aizawl, Mizoram Bamboo Mat Production Centre at Kowaifung, 

South Tripura 

68 68 68 




constituted a Task Force for formulation of 

Guidelines for Green Habitat with BMTPC as the 

Secretariat. 

18.5 Activities in the North Eastern Region 

1. BMTPC has undertaken construction of 10 

demonstration structures, each, using bamboo 

based technologies in Mizoram and Tripura. 

These include houses, OPD buildings, Library 

buildings, Picnic huts, Schools, etc. The 

construction of all ten structures at Mizoram have 

been completed and handed over to state Govt. 

Construction of 6 structures using bamboo based 

technologies were completed in Tripura and 

handed over to the Tripura Government. The work 

on remaining 4 structures is in progress. 

The cost of construction is considerably reduced 

by 25% to 30% using bamboo based technologies 

for different types of structures as compared to 

conventional construction. During constructing 

various types of structures local contractors, 

masons, artisans were provided training on use 

of bamboo in building construction. 

Action was initiated for setting up Technology 

Demonstration cum Production Centre in Tripura. 

The work on construction of shed is in progress. 

2. The Council is establishing four Bamboo 

Mat Production Centres in Tripura (1), Mizoram 

(2) and Meghlaya (1) in the first phase. Bamboo 

Mat Production Centres have been established 

at: 

• Kowaifung, Tripura 

• Sairang, Mizoram 

The training of personnel at Kowaifung Centre, 

Tripura has been completed. The shed for other 

two Centres at Bualpui, Mizoram and Sohkar 

Nongtluh village, Meghalaya have been 

completed. The required machinery for Centre at 

Bualpui, Mizoram have been dispatched and 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

machines for Centre at Sohkar Nongtluh village, 

Meghalaya have been fabricated. 

3. The Council has initiated establishment of 

Bamboo Mat Production Centre at Nagaland, 

construction of 4 demonstration structures using 

bamboo based technologies in Meghalaya and 

construction of a canteen building in Nagaland. 

18.6 Standardization and Product 

Evaluation 

1. First meeting of the BMTPC Board of 

Agreement (BMBA) for operationalisation of 

Performance Appraisal Certification Scheme 

(PACS) under the chairmanship of President Shri 

B.Majumdar the then DG, CPWD was held on 

April 18, 2006. The policy guidelines were 

approved by of the Board. 

2. Meeting of Technical Assessment 

Committee (TAC) of Performance Appraisal 

Certification Scheme (PACS) being operated by 

BMTPC was held on June 28, 2006 at BMTPC 

Office. This being the first meeting, the concept 

of PACS, detailed procedures and role of TAC 

members were informed to Members. TAC 

approved one PAC on VSBK technology for brick 

manufacturing with certain modifications. It was 

also decided to review the PACS already issued 

at the time of their renewal which are now due. 

3. Performance Appraisal Certificate (PAC) for 

Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln (VSBK) technology has 

been finalized. The Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln (VSBK) 

technology is an environment friendly brick 

manufacturing technology being promoted by 

Development Alternatives in the country and 

abroad. M/s Reliance Industry have also applied 

for renewal of PAC for Recron 3S. 

4. Three more new applications namely for 

construction chemical, doors made of finger 

jointed plantation timber and polycarbonate 

sheets for roofing by M/s Contech Chemicals, 

69 

69


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Training Programme on Use of Chemical and 

Mineral Admixtures for Concrete 

Construction, New Delhi, April 27 – 28, 2006 

M/s Priya Doors and M/s V.I. Plastics respectively 

have been received under Performance Appraisal 

Certification Scheme of the council. These are 

being processed for PAC. 

18.7 Promotion of Cost Effective Building 

Materials & Technologies 

1. A 3-days training programme was 

organized on “Standards and Quality Control in 

construction” jointly by BMTPC and Standards and 

Quality Control Authority (SQCA), Ministry of 

Works & Human Settlements, Royal Government 

of Bhutan during May 16-18, 2006 which was 

attended by more than 50 engineers, architects 

& professionals from various Govt. Departments 

& private organizations of Bhutan. The training 

programme was inaugurated by Secretary (HUPA), 

GoI. Secretary-Works & Human Settlement, Royal 

Govt. of Bhutan, Acting Indian Ambassador. A 

presentation was made by BMTPC on Housing 

technologies after the inauguration. 

2. With the emergence of new building 

materials, advancement of technologies and the 

need for disaster resistant construction to mitigate 

the effect of natural disasters, it is important that 

working professionals regularly update their 

knowledge and understanding of subjects. 

Realizing this need of capacity building of 

Training Workshop on Team Building at New 

Delhi, November 9-10, 2006. 

professionals, BMTPC has continued its efforts in 

organizing structured training programmes on 

various topics. 

Faculties for these training programmes are well 

known experts from academic institutions as well 

as practising professionals besides BMTPC’s own 

officers. More than 300 professionals, in last one 

year, both from leading public and private 

organizations like CPWD, PWDs, Railways, NTPC, 

GAIL, Cement Industry and Construction 

Agencies, etc. attended the training programmes. 

Since the last meeting of the EC, following training 

programmes have been organized: 

• Use of Chemical and Mineral Admixtures 

for Concrete Construction, April 27 – 28, 

2006 

• Water Proofing and Damp Proofing 

Materials and Techniques for Buildings and 

Structures” at Pune, May 25 - 26, 2006 

• Retrofitting and Repair for seismic 

strengthening of buildings and Structures”, 

14-16 June, 2006. 

• Repair, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of 

Buildings & Structures, 22-23 August, 2006 

• Concrete Making Materials, Mix Design and 

High Performance Concrete, 6th to 8th 

September 2006. 

• Team Building, November 9-10, 2006. 

70 70 70 




In addition to the above, the Council organised 

a 5 days short term training course on “Earthquake 

Resistant Design and Construction of Buildings” 

during 18 th to 22 nd September 2006 in 

collaboration with IIT – Roorkee. It was the 

inaugural course of the series of short term courses 

conceived by the Council in joint associations with 

the institutions of excellence such as IITs. The 

training programme received overwhelming 

response and was attended by 39 senior officials 

from Indian Army, Indian Railway, NTPC, 

Rajasthan Housing Board, BHEL, offices of United 

Nations, BEL, Satluj Jal Vidut Nigam, CPWD, SAIL, 

PWD-Chennai and other various State Municipal 

Administrations/Boards etc. 

3. The Standing Committee of the Parliament 

on Urban Development undertook on the spot 

study tour to Leh and Srinagar during last week 

of May, 2006 and first week of June, 2006. The 

Parliament Standing Committee visited the Green 

Houses project constructed by BMTPC for ITBP in 

Leh for growing of the green vegetables in 

inhospitable terrain. The Committee highly 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Third Sub-Committee of the Committee of 

Parliament on Official Language inspected and 

reviewed the use of Hindi language in official 

works in BMTPC on September 15, 2006. 

appreciated the BMTPC project and also desired 

that these should be replicated all over the State. 

During the informal discussion with the officials 

of the State Government, HUDCO, BMTPC, 

CPWD, etc. in Srinagar, the Committee advised 

the State Government to take the help of BMTPC 

for adoption of cost effective disaster resistant 

construction and also the construction of Green 

Houses all over the State. 

Standing Committee of the Parliament on Urban Development inspected the Green Houses, 

constructed by BMTPC for Indo Tibetan Border Police, during the on-the-spot-study-tour to Leh during 

last week of May, 2006. 

71 

71


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

4. BMTPC took part in World Expo – 2006 

which was organized at Pragati Maidan from 1-3 

June, 2006. In this exhibition, a large number 

stakeholders connected with the construction 

sector participated with BMTPC stall and attended 

number of engineers, architects, professionals and 

the general public. 

5. BMTPC celebrated its sixteenth Foundation 

Day on 29 th of June, 2006. Secretary (HUPA) 

presided over as Chief Guest of the function. Dr. 

C.S. Venkata Ratnam, Director, International 

Management Institute, New Delhi delivered a 

guest lecture on “Empowering People for 

organizational effectiveness”. The function was 

attended by the officials of the Ministry and the 

departments/organizations under the Ministry. 

6. BMTPC participated in the meeting of 

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) 

in connection with the preparation of Strategy 

Paper on Disaster Management in the country by 

NDMA and provided list of multi hazard districts 

and districts lying in different zones of earthquakes 

to NDMA for inclusion in its report. 

7. Action for implementing Quality System as 

per ISO 9000 has been initiated in the Council. 

8. BMTPC organized a one day awareness 

programme for the contractors of DSIDC in the 

field of Innovative building materials and 

construction technologies. 

9. Third Sub-Committee of the Committee of 

Parliament on Official Language inspected and 

Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of State 

(Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation releasing the Building 

Materials News - Cities of Magnets of Hope, 

brought out on the occasion of World Habitat Day, 

2006. 

Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for HUPA giving away the prizes to 

Award Winners of Painting Competition for Differently Abled Children during World Habitat Day. 

72 72 72 




Training Programme on Cost Effective 

Building Materials and Construction 

Technologies for Working Women, 

Vidisha 

reviewed the use of Hindi language in official 

works in BMTPC on September 15, 2006. The 

Committee Members were satisfied with the 

progress made by BMTPC in this regard. While 

reviewing the work of the Council, it suggested 

the some initiatives in the rural areas are also 

required to be made. 

10. To mark the occasion of World Habitat Day, 

BMTPC organized Painting competition for Special 

(Differently Abled) Children. More than 60 

children under 3 different categories namely 

Mentally Retarded-Moderate, Mentally Retarded- 

Severe and Visually Impaired participated in this 

competition. During the function organized to 

celebrate World Habitat Day by M/o HUPA on 

October 3 2006, Hon’ble Minister of State (IC) 

for HUPA distributed prizes to winners of the 

competition. Hon’ble Minister also released the 

Eight Edition of BMTPC’s “Directory on Indian 

Building Materials & Products” along with CD and 

BMTPC’s “Building Materials News” on this 

occasion. 

11. A permanent Display Centre of BMTPC’s 

promoted Products and Technologies has been 

set up at School of Planning and Architecture 

(SPA), New Delhi. 

12. A Permanent Display Centre of BMTPC’s 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Permanent Technology Display Centre 

at Samrat Ashok Technology Institute, 

Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. 

promoted products and technologies has also 

been set up at Samrat Ashok Technology Institute, 

Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. 

13. Prepared a draft Chapter on Promoting 

Cost-Effective Construction Techniques and 

Disaster Mitigation for 11 th Plan Document of 

Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation. 

14. Prepared a draft Chapter on Technology for 

11 th Plan of the Ministry of Rural Development. 

15. BMTPC organized and sponsored a 

workshop on “Rural Development through 

Integration of Agro-Forestry and Wood-Based 

Industries” on October 11-12, 2006 at India 

Habitat Centre, New Delhi, jointly with IPIRTI - 

Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training 

Institute. The inaugural session of the workshop 

was chaired by Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, Secretary, 

MoEF, GoI. 

16. Presentations on “Preparation & Appraisal 

of DPRs for IHSDP and BSUP under JNNURM” 

were made by the Council at following workshops 

& training programmes - 

• State Level workshop of “Municipal 

Engineers and Functionaries of the various 

Municipal Corporations and Municipalities” 

73 

73


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Regional Workshop on Project Development under Jawaharlal Nehru National 

Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) at Shillong, Meghalaya 

at Hyderabad on 7 th July, 2006. 

• Two Day Workshop on BSUP and IHSDP 

for HUDCO Officers, New Delhi on July 

13 – 14, 2006. 

• The Training Programme held on “JNNURM 

for Municipal Functionaries” on July 20-22, 

2006 at YASHADA, Pune. 

• One Day meeting on BSUP and IHSDP at 

Kolkatta on July 31, 2006. 

• MoHUPA Conference on JNNURM for 

Housing Ministers, Secretaries and 

commissioners of North Eastern States on 

September 18, 2006. A presentation was 

also made on the preparation and appraisal 

of DPRs for BSUP and IHSDP under 

JNNURM. 

• One day workshop on BSUP for In-house 

capacity building of BMTPC officers 

organized on October 27, 2006 at IHC 

Office of the Council. 

• “Preparation & Appraisal of DPRs for BSUP 

under JNNURM” to Municipal Functionaries 

at Bhubaneswar on October 28, 2006. 

• Training programme on “Preparation & 

Appraisal of DPRs for BSUP under 

JNNURM” to Municipal Functionaries at 

Pune on November 13, 2006. 

18.8 Participation in Exhibitions/Seminars/ 

Workshops 

BMTPC participated/organized the following: 

• “India International Construction and 

Contracting (ICON – 2006)” held during 

2-4 May, 2006 at Greater Noida. 

• One day Conference on the theme 

“Earthquake Resistant Houses – Indian 

Perspective” was organized by BMTPC on 

May 3, 2006 during ICON 2006. 

• World Expo Exhibition with the theme to 

address environmental issues through green 

buildings during 27-30 May, 2006 at 

Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. 

• Annual Conference of the Relief 

Commissioner of States/UTs organized by 

the Ministry of Home Affairs on June 5, 

2006 

• One Day Workshop on “National Building 

Code of India 2005” on 19 th June, 2006 

jointly organized by Bureau of Indian 

Standards (BIS) and Institution of Engineers 

(IE). 

• One Day Training Programme on “Effective 

Written Business Communication” held on 

June 16, 2006 organised by Delhi 

74 74 74 




Training Workshop on Team Building at 

New Delhi, 

November 9-10, 2006. 

Management Association, New Delhi. 

• One Day Training Programme on “Discover 

your Hidden Potential” held on June 30, 

2006 organised by Delhi Management 

Association, New Delhi. 

• Round Table Conference on “Green 

Buildings-Mainstreaming Solar Passive 

Buildings through Rating Systems”, 

organized by Ministry of Non-Conventional 

Energy Sources, Govt. of India on 

September 01, 2006. 

• Exhibition at 10 th National Expo at Kolkata, 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Visit of Indian Delegation of Building 

Materials Manufacturers to Italy, 13-17 

November, 2006 

1-8 September, 2006. 

• 5th Asian Symposium on Polymers in 

Concrete from September 11-12, 2006 

organized by Structural Engineering 

Research Centre, Chennai. 

• Monitoring Committee meeting held at 

CBRI, Roorkee of the project “Mathematical 

Modeling for Optimizing Clay Flyash Mix 

in different regions of the country for 

manufacturing Clay Flyash Bricks” 

sponsored by Flyash utilization programme, 

Kumari Selja, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for HUPA at BMTPC 

Display during India International Trade Fair 2006, New Delhi 

75 

75


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 


Poverty Alleviation inaugurating the Regional Workshop on Building Byelaws and 

Project Development under JNNURM, 17-18 January 2007, Port Blair 

TIFAC on October 31st, 2006. 

• 8th National Convention on Construction- 

”Development of Physical Infrastructure- 

Synergy Approach”-Seminar on Housing & 

Civic Infrastructure Development” held on 

October 20-22, 2006 at IHC, New Delhi. 

• Four days workshop on Preparation of DPRs 

for Water Resources Sector Projects from 

October 17-20, 2006 organized by Central 

Soil and Material Research Station, New 

Delhi. 

• Presentation on “Risk Assessment of 

Housing Stock – Vulnerability Atlas of India”, 

during Housing Ministers Conference at 

Hyderabad, 16-17 November, 2006. 

• Exhibition at HUDCO BuildTech 2006 

during India International Trade Fair, 14- 

27 November, 2006. 

• Exhibition at TECHMART 2006 during IITF, 

14-27 November, 2006. 

• Exhibition organized by FICCI at New Delhi, 

4-6 December, 2006. 

• Exhibition at BAMFEST 2006 at Agartala, 

16 – 23 December, 2006. 

• Exhibition during the Asia Pacific Ministerial 

Conference on Housing and Human 

Settlements from 13-16 December, 2006, 

New Delhi. 

18.9 Activities to be undertaken during 

Jan.2007 to March 2007 

BMTPC is focussed on the following activities 

which are in various degrees of progress: 

1. Establishment of Demonstration-cum- 

Production Centre in Tripura 

2. Construction of remaining 4 bamboo 

structures in Tripura. 

3. Organisation of 3 workshops on Model 

Building Bye-laws. 

76 76 76 




4. Processing of applications for awarding the 

certificates under Performance Appraisal 

Certification Scheme (PACS). 

5. Retrofitting for Earthquake safety of four 

MCD School buildings 

6. Development of prefabricated Coir/ 

Bamboo Composites as Building 

Components 

7. Construction of 4 Demonstration structures 

using Bamboo Based Technologies each in 

Meghalaya and Chattisgarh. 

8. Setting up of one Bamboo Mat Production 

and training units in Bamboo growing areas 

9. Construction of demonstration buildings 

using solar passive architecture in hilly 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

areas. 

10. Organisation of International Workshop on 

Emerging Building Technologies at New 

Delhi. 

11. Organisation of following Training 

Programmes: 

i. Performance based Design and 

Retrofitting of Buildings against 

Earthquakes- Jointly with IIT Roorkee, 

January 8-12, 2007 

ii. Water Proofing and Damp Proofing – 

Materials & Techniques for Buildings 

& Structures to be held during January 

22-23, 2007. 

Meeting during the visit of Nepalese Delegation to the BMTPC’s Display Centre 

at Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi, July, 2006 

77 

77


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

19. National Cooperative Housing Federation 

of India (NCHF) 

The National Cooperative Housing Federation of 

India (NCHF) is a national level organisation of 

the entire cooperative housing sector in the 

country. The primary objective of NCHF is to 

promote, guide and coordinate the activities of 

housing cooperatives in the country. 

The main activities and achievements of NCHF 

during the period from April, 2006 to December, 

2006 are placed below: 

19.1 Promotional Activities 

1. In order to promote Apex Cooperative 

Housing Federations(ACHFs) in those States where 

such organisations do not exist, NCHF requested 

the concerned State Governments to do the 

needful. It may be mentioned that housing 

activities in the cooperative sector has been 

initiated in Uttaranchal . The Uttaranchal State 

Cooperative Federation (USCF) has been 

designated as the ACHF in the State. The 

Government of Uttaranchal has constituted a 

Housing and Regional Development Committee 

for formulation of State Housing Policy. The 

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttaranchal was 

requested to advise the above Committee to 

incorporate necessary provisions in the Policy 

Document to facilitate larger and important role 

for housing cooperatives in solving housing 

problems of the State. 

2. The Government of India has fixed a target 

for construction of one lakh housing units to the 

cooperative sector under the Two Million Housing 

Programme. NCHF approached the major 

funding institutions like LIC, NHB and HUDCO 

to increase the flow of funds to ACHFs so as to 

achieve above targets. NCHF monitored and 

reviewed the progress made by cooperatives 

under the said programme and also collected the 

data and supplied to the Ministry of Housing and 

A Cooperative Housing Project (Sahyog Apartments), Vidyadharnagar, Jaipur 

financed by the Rajasthan State Cooperative Housing Federation 

78 78 78 




Urban Poverty Alleviation at regular intervals. 

3. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) 

was requested for reduction in the interest rate 

on its loans to ACHFs, increasing the quantum of 

annual loan assistance, raising borrowing limit 

of ACHFs, increasing individual loan ceiling, 

reschedulement of over-dues etc. A delegation 

from NCHF also met the Chairman of LIC on 

26 th October, 2006 at Mumbai. The LIC has 

made an allocation of Rs.164 crore as loans to 

ACHFs for the year 2006-07 and also accepted 

the one time settlement of out-standing dues of 

Meghalaya Housefed thereby waiving the 

compound interest. 

4. National Housing Bank (NHB) was 

requested to contribute towards the share capital 

of ACHFs; waive the prepayment charges in case 

of refund of loans raised at higher interest rates; 

grant refinance without insisting on Government 

guarantee; provide at least Rs.250 crore as 

refinance assistance every year; etc. 

5. The Housing and Urban Development 

Corporation (HUDCO) was requested to waive 

processing fee and front-end-fee from ACHFs; 

appoint ACHFs as marketing associates under 

HUDCO Niwas Scheme; accept repayment 

reschedulement proposals of ACHFs having 

genuine problems; etc. 

6. The State Governments were requested to 

adopt the Model Cooperative Housing Societies 

Law drafted by NCHF and approved by the 

Government of India. Relevant extracts from the 

Cooperative Societies Acts of Delhi, Goa, Jammu 

and Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh regarding 

Separate Chapter/Special Provisions for the 

cooperative housing societies were sent to 

H.P.Housefed and Assam Housefed for facilitating 

them to draft Chapter on Housing Cooperatives 

for inclusion in their respective Cooperative 

Societies Acts. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

A Cooperative Housing Project at 

Chandigarh 

7. A memorandum was submitted to the 

Advisor to the Administrator, Union Territory of 

Chandigarh with a request to resolve various 

issues related to development of housing 

cooperatives in Chandigarh like allotment of land, 

availability of funds, tenure of managing 

committee, substitution of members, constitution 

of special committee etc. It may be mentioned 

that the Chandigarh Administration has 

announced the substitution policy for cooperative 

house building societies in the Union Territory . 

The societies have been empowered to decide 

on the matter of substitution in membership as 

well as the substitution fee. 

8. Suggestions aimed at reducing housing cost 

of members of housing cooperatives like 

exemption from payment of income tax, service 

tax and reduction in interest rate were sent to the 

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 

for consideration while finalizing fiscal concessions 

in the Annual Budget for 2007-08. A note on the 

above issues was also sent to the National 

Cooperative Union of India for inclusion in the 

memorandum to be submitted by them to the 

Hon’ble Finance Minister. 

9. The Planning Commission constituted a 

Working Group on Urban Housing and Urban 

Poverty with focus on slums for the 11 th Five Year 

79 

79


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Plan (2007-12). The Managing Director, NCHF 

was also taken as one of the members of the 

Working Group and attended its various meetings. 

A detailed paper on ‘Role of Housing 

Cooperatives during 11 th Five Year Plan’ prepared 

in consultation with ACHFs was submitted to the 

Working Group for consideration and inclusion 

in its Report. 

10. The Government of Delhi has constituted a 

Rule Framing Committee headed by the 

Chairman of NCHF to draft the Delhi Cooperative 

Societies Rules. NCHF Secretariat provided 

logistical support to the above Committee. The 

Managing Director, NCHF also attended various 

meetings of the Committee and provided 

necessary input for finalizing the above said Rules. 

11. A memorandum was submitted to Shri Abdul 

Aziz Zargar, Hon’ble Minister for Agriculture 

Production, Cooperatives, Fisheries, Hospitality 

and Protocol, Government of J & K regarding 

amendment of the Jammu & Kashmir Cooperative 

Societies Act, 1989, thereby allowing nonresidents 

of the State to become members of 

primary cooperative societies. 

12. Report of the Study on ‘Role of Cooperative 

Housing in Employment Generation and Poverty 

Alleviation’ was circulated to the Chief Secretaries 

of all States with a request to send their feedback 

to NCHF Secretariat on the usefulness of 

the said Study. 

13. The Chairman and the Managing Director 

of NCHF participated in various Seminars/ 

Conferences/Meetings convened by the 

Government of India, state Governments, 

Cooperative Organisations and concerned 

agencies dealing in housing. 

14. NCHF Secretariat contributed a number of 

articles and papers on cooperative housing and 

related issues to various conferences, journals and 

institutions. 

19.2 Education, Training and Research 

NCHF has been making arrangements for the 

training of cooperators, directors, employees and 

office-bearers of ACHFs and their affiliated 

A Cooperative Housing Project at Faridabad, Haryana 

80 80 80 




primary housing cooperatives on technical and 

other aspects of cooperative housing like 

organization and management, finance, costeffective 

building materials and technology, legal 

issues, accounts keeping, general insurance etc. 

During the period from April to December, 2006, 

NCHF organised the following training 

programmes for the personnel of ACHFs, housing 

cooperatives and others concerned: 

(i) A Management Development Programme 

on 26-30 th June, 2006 at Chandigarh, 

which was attended by 55 participants. 

(ii) An International Training Programme on 

Housing Cooperatives from 3-8 th July, 2006 

at New Delhi and Chandigarh for the 

Cooperative Leaders and Officers of 

National Cooperative Federation of Nepal 

which was attended by 23 participants. 

(iii) A Training Programme on ‘Excellence in 

Accounts and Management’ from 25-29 th 

September, 2006 at Panaji, Goa, which was 

attended by 38 participants. 

NCHF also conducts Research and Studies and 

compiles statistical data for the benefit and use 

of all concerned persons and institutions engaged 

in cooperative housing activities. 

19.3 Conferences/Seminars 

The NCHF has been organizing Conferences/ 

Seminars/Symposia etc. for the personnel of 

ACHFs and Housing Cooperatives. Such forums 

are organised to review the progress and 

discussing various problems faced by housing 

cooperatives to suggest measures for their smooth 

functioning. During the period under report, 

NCHF organized the following: 

(1) (1) Conference Conference of of Chief Chief Executives Executives of of ACHFs: 

ACHFs: 

The NCHF organized the 25th Conference 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

of Chief Executives of ACHFs on 12 th 

December, 2006 at New Delhi. 

(2) (2) 53 53 53 rd All All India India Cooperative Cooperative W WWeek: 

W eek: The All 

India Cooperative Week is celebrated every 

year during 3rd week of November. During 

the year 2006-07 the 53rd All India 

Cooperative Week was celebrated from 14- 

20th November, 2006. The main theme of 

the Cooperative Week was ‘Cooperatives: 

Key for Second Green Revolution and 

Socio-Economic Progress’. 

(3) (3) Symposium Symposium on on Income Income Income T TTax 

T ax and and Housing 

Housing 

Cooperatives: 

Cooperatives: Cooperatives: During the 53rd All India 

Cooperative Week, NCHF organized a 

Symposium on ‘Income Tax and Housing 

Cooperatives’ on 17th November, 2006 at 

New Delhi to celebrate the ‘Cooperatives 

for Poverty Alleviation, Employment 

Generation and Consumers Day’. 

(4) (4) National National National Seminar Seminar on on on L LLegal 

LL 

egal Aspects Aspects of 


Housing Housing Cooperatives: Cooperatives: A National Seminar 

on ‘Legal Aspects of Housing Cooperatives’ 

was organized by NCHF at Bangalore on 

26th May, 2006 in collaboration with 

Karnataka State Cooperative Housing 

Federation. The Seminar was inaugurated 

by Shri C.S.Kedar, Principal Secretary, 

Department of Cooperation, Government 

of Karnataka and presided over by Shri 

Deep Chand Sharma, Chairman, NCHF. 

In all about 75 delegates participated in 

the Seminar. 

(5) (5) (5) National National Seminar Seminar on on on Right Right to to Information 

Information 

Act ct and and Cooperatives: Cooperatives: A National Seminar 

on ‘Right to Information Act and 

Cooperatives’ was organised by NCHF on 

11th August, 2006 at New Delhi in 

collaboration with the National Cooperative 

Union of India (NCUI). Smt.Sheila Dikshit, 

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi inaugurated 

81 

81


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

the Seminar. Shri Nav Prabhat, Hon’ble 

Minister for Forest, Environment and Urban 

Development, Government of Uttaranchal 

graced the occasion as the Guest of 

Honour. Shri Wajahat Habibullah, Chief 

Information Commissioner, Central 

Information Commission, Government of 

India and Shri S.B.Upadhyay, Senior 

Advocate, Supreme Court made detailed 

presentation on the new legislation. The 

Seminar was attended by over 150 

delegates. 

(6) (6) (6) Hindi Hindi W WWorkshop: 

W orkshop: A Hindi Workshop was 

organized by NCHF on 8th November, 2006 

at New Delhi. Dr.Mahesh Chandra Gupt, 

Member of the Joint Consultative 

Committee of the Ministry of Housing and 

Urban Poverty Alleviation and Urban 

Development and observer in the Rajbhasha 

Karyanvayan Samiti of NCHF was the Chief 

Guest at the Workshop. 

In addition to organisation of above events, NCHF 

also extended its cooperation to Delhi State 

Cooperative Union in organizing a Symposium 

on Income Tax vis-à-vis Cooperatives on 19 th May, 

2006 at New Delhi. 

19.4 Publications 

In line with its policy of keeping the public, 

especially the members of housing cooperatives 

well informed about the objective, activities and 

achievements of cooperative housing movement, 

new techniques of building of housing units, 

problems of housing cooperatives and important 

judgements delivered by the Supreme Court of 

India relating to housing cooperatives, NCHF 

has been bringing out various publications from 

time to time. During the period from April to 

December, 2006, NCHF brought out the following 

publications. 

(i) (i) NCHF NCHF Bulletin: Bulletin: This monthly publication 

of NCHF carries articles by eminent 

cooperators and experts and contains other 

useful information pertaining to housing 

cooperatives including legal column and 

latest developments in the field of 

construction technology. This Bulletin 

includes articles and features in English as 

well as in Hindi . During the period from 

April to December, 2006 all the issues of 

A view of Cooperative Housing Project at Goa 

82 82 82 




Housing Colony of the Meghalaya State Employees Housing 

Cooperative Society, Shillong 

NCHF Bulletin were brought out which 

included special issues in October on World 

Habitat Day and in November, 2006 on 

Cooperative Week Celebrations. 

(ii) (ii) Special Special Hindi Hindi P PPatrika 

P atrika ‘Sahakari ‘Sahakari A AAwas’: 

A was’: This 

half yearly special Hindi Patrika called 

‘Sahakari Awas’ is being published for 

promoting use of Rajbhasha Hindi in 

cooperative housing sector. One issue of 

‘Sahakari Awas’ was brought out during the 

period under report. 

(iii) (iii) Housing Housing V VVoice: 

V Voice: 

oice: This monthly news letter 

contains latest information on the 

development of cooperative housing and 

related fields. All the issues of Housing 

Voice from April to December, 2006 were 

brought out in time. 

(iv) (iv) Book Book on on ‘ ‘Organisation ‘ Organisation Organisation and and Management 

Management 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

of of of Housing Housing Housing Cooperatives’: Cooperatives’: The 5th revised 

edition of the Book ‘Organisation and 

Management of Housing Cooperatives’ 

authored by Dr.M.L.Khurana, Managing 

Director, NCHF was brought out. This 

publication provides up-to-date information 

about the organisation of housing 

cooperatives, planning and execution of 

projects, raising of funds, rules and 

regulations, management aspects etc. It 

also provides a conceptual base to 

cooperators and practical knowledge 

towards better organisation, management 

and finance pertaining to housing 

cooperatives. The activities of housing 

cooperatives in other countries have also 

been discussed in the Book. 

(v) (v) Study Study Study R RReport: 

R eport: The Report of the Task Force 

on Cooperative Housing was brought out 

in Hindi. 

83 

83


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

(vi) (vi) (vi) English-Hindi English-Hindi Dictionary: Dictionary: Dictionary: A Dictionary 

(English-Hindi ) containing words related to 

cooperative housing was brought out. 

(vii) (vii) NCHF NCHF NCHF Pamphlet: amphlet: NCHF Pamphlet which 

includes the objectives of NCHF, its 

achievements, basic data relating to 

cooperative housing movement such as 

membership, share capital, borrowings, 

loaning operations, house construction etc. 

was compiled and published. 

(viii) (viii) Telephone elephone Directory Directory of of NCHF NCHF: NCHF : The 

Telephone Directory of NCHF was compiled 

and printed which contains important 

addresses and telephone numbers of 

Member Federations , concerned Ministries, 

organisations dealing with housing, national 

level cooperative federations as well as 

international cooperative organisations. 

(ix) (ix) (ix) Handouts: Handouts: A handout on ‘Awas Sahakartia 

Ke Maadhyam Se’ (in Hindi ) and another 

one on ‘National Development through 

Housing Cooperatives’ (in English) was 

brought out. 

(x) (x) Annual Annual R RReport: 

R eport: The Annual Report of NCHF 

for the year 2005-06 was prepared and 

published in Hindi and English. 

(xi) (xi) Proceedings roceedings roceedings RR 

Report: RR 

eport: The Report of the 

Proceedings of the National Seminar on 

‘Legal Aspects of Housing Cooperatives’ 

and ‘Right to Information Act and 

Cooperatives’ were brought out. 

19.5 Implementation of Rajbhasha (Hindi ) 

in NCHF office 

In connection with the implementation of 

Rajbhasha (Hindi ), NCHF took the following 

steps: 

(i) Articles written in Hindi and other relevant 

news items in Hindi on cooperative housing 

and related fields were published in the 

NCHF Bulletin regularly. 

(ii) Hindi Pakhwada was observed in NCHF 

Secretariat during September, 2006. 

(iii) A special Hindi patrika ‘Sahakari Awas’ 

was published. 

(iv) A Dictionary (English-Hindi ) containing 

words relating to cooperative housing was 

brought out. 

(v) The Report of the Task Force on Cooperative 

Housing was published in Hindi. 

(vi) A Hindi Workshop was organized during 

November, 2006. 

19.6 Study Visit to NCHF Secretariat 

The following trainees and foreign delegation 

made study visit to NCHF Secretariat during the 

period under reference. 

(1) A group of 27 trainees of ‘XII Diploma 

Course in Cooperative Management’ 

conducted by Delhi State Cooperative 

Training Centre visited on 21 st August, 2006 

as a part of their observation Study Tour. 

(2) A four member delegation from Vietnam 

Cooperative Alliance (VCA) visited on 7 th 

November, 2006. The members of the 

delegation were also taken to one of the 

primary cooperative housing projects in 

Dwarka, New Delhi. 

The Managing Director, NCHF briefed the above 

trainees/foreign delegation about the activities 

and achievements of NCHF and the Indian 

Cooperative Housing Movement. A Video Film 

on ‘Housing for All – Cooperative Housing in 

India’ was shown to the trainees/foreign 

delegation and suitable literature was also 

supplied to them. 

84 84 84 




A view of Cooperative Housing Project at Nasik, Maharashtra 

19.7 Multi-Purpose Cooperatives for Slum 

Dwellers 

In the process of initiating a national dialogue for 

organizing Multi-Purpose Cooperatives for Slum 

Dwellers to improve their living conditions, NCHF 

has developed a concept paper on ‘Cooperative 

Housing for Urban Poor – A Strategy for Slum 

Improvement and Poverty Alleviation’. This 

concept paper has been circulated to State 

Governments with a request to facilitate setting 

up of Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies for 

Slum Dwellers and Urban Poor as suggested in 

the said paper and also to constitute State level 

Monitoring and Coordination Committee to 

oversee the formation of these cooperatives. 

It may be mentioned that the Government of Delhi 

has constituted a State level Monitoring and 

Coordination Committee headed by the 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

Chairman, NCHF to oversee the formation of 

Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies for the 

economic and social development of slum 

dwellers and economically weaker sections in the 

Capital City of Delhi. The Managing Director, 

NCHF is also a member of the said Committee. 

During the period under reference a number of 

meetings of the Committee have been held in the 

presence of the Hon’ble Urban Development and 

Cooperation Minister of Delhi to review the 

progress in the formation of Multi-Purpose 

Cooperative Societies for Slum Dwellers. 

The Chairman and the Managing Director of 

NCHF also met the Hon’ble Chief Minister as well 

as the Hon’ble Urban Development and 

Cooperation Minister, Government of Delhi to 

discuss the matter regarding formation of Multi- 

Purpose Cooperative Societies. The Delhi 

Government have registered four separate group 

85 

85


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

housing societies for slum dwellers. 

19.8 Miscellaneous 

1. Faculty support was provided by NCHF 

Secretariat to cooperative institutions with 

regard to lectures/talks on cooperative 

housing. 

2. NCHF distributed a kit containing special 

issue of NCHF Bulletin, VCD of film on 

‘Housing for All – Cooperative Housing in 

India ’ and hand-outs on Cooperative 

Housing at a function organised by the 

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty 

Alleviation to celebrate World Habitat Day 

on 3 rd October, 2006 at New Delhi. 

3. NCHF provided the logistical support to the 

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty 

Alleviation in organizing the first Asia-Pacific 

Ministerial Conference on Housing and 

Human Settlements from 13-16 th December, 

2006 at New Delhi. The publications 

namely NCHF Bulletin, NCHF Pamphlet 

and Concept Paper on ‘Shelter 

Development through Cooperatives’ were 

sent to the Ministry for distribution among 

the participants. The Managing Director, 

NCHF also made a presentation on ‘Shelter 

Development through Cooperatives – 

Providing Affordable Houses for the Poor in 

Asia and the Pacific Region thus aiding in 

Poverty Alleviation and Slum Improvement’ 

on 15 th December, 2006. 

19.9 Future Programmes 

The details of important activities planned from 

January to March, 2007 are given below: 

(1) To organize a Management Development 

Programme for the personnel of ACHFs and 

housing cooperatives from 19-22 nd 

February,2007. 

(2) The monthly publication called ‘NCHF 

Bulletin’ as well as ‘Housing Voice’ will be 

brought out regularly including special issue 

of NCHF Bulletin in January 2007 on Asia- 

Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing 

and Human Settlements. 

(3) The next issue of Hindi Patrika ‘Sahakari 

Awas’ will be published. 

(4) A Handbook of Cooperative Housing 

Statistics will be brought out. 

(5) NCHF will make continued efforts and 

impress upon the funding institutions for 

augmenting the flow of funds to housing 

cooperatives, reducing rate of interest on 

loans and providing incentives to ACHFs. 

A view of Cooperative House at Thrissur, Kerala financed by Kerala State 

Cooperative Housing Federation 

86 86 86 




The Central Government Employees Welfare 

Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) is an 

autonomous body specially constituted for 

construction of houses for Central Government 

employees on all India basis. CGEWHO is 16 

years old but has been constructing effectively for 

12 years (w.e.f. 1994) 

20.1 AIMS & OBJECTS 

As per ‘Memorandum of Association’, the aims 

and objects for which the Society has been 

established are as under: 

a. To undertake social welfare schemes on ‘no 

profit-no loss’ basis for the Central 

Government employees serving and/ or 

retired, for spouses of the Central Govt 

employees, and employees in service of this 

Society and to spouses in case of deceased 

employees, by inter-alia promoting the 

construction of houses and providing all 

possible help and required inputs for 

housing to achieve this object. 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

20. Central Government Employees Welfare 

Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) 

b. To do all such things as are incidental or 

conducive to the attainment of the above 

objects or any of them. 

20.2 PROJECTS 

Projects under Progress 

So far the organisation has bulit 10018 dwelling 

units in various parts of the Country. CGEWHO 

has at present, to its credit, ongoing housing 

schemes at Noida (Ph-V)(576), Lucknow (130), 

Chennai (Ph-II) (540) and Hyderabad (Ph-III)(380), 

Mohali (Ph-I) (650) and Bhubneshwar (Ph-I) (240) 

with 2516 dwelling units under various stages of 

construction and planning. Twenty of the 

CGEWHO’s projects at Chennai (Ph I) (524), 

Nerul, Navi Mumbai (384), Sector 14, Panchkula 

(Ph I) (98), Kolkata (Ph I) (576), Sector-51, NOIDA 

(Ph I & II) (1200), Kharghar, Navi Mumbai (1230), 

Sector-56, Gurgaon (Ph I & II) (1940), Chandigarh 

(305), Bangalore (Ph I) (603), Hyderabad (Ph I) 

(344), Kochi (43), Pune (Ph I) (159), Sector-82, 

NOIDA (Ph III & IV) (1700), Ahmedabad (310), 

Jaipur (184),Hyderabad(Ph-II)(178) and 

Panchkula (Ph-II) (240) have been completed. 

Particulars articulars Noida Noida Lucknow ucknow Chennai Chennai Chennai Hyderabad Hyderabad Hyderabad Gurgaon Gurgaon Gurgaon AIMT AIMT Pune une Mohali Mohali Bhubaneswar 

Bhubaneswar 

(Ph- (Ph- (Ph-V) (Ph- (Ph-V) 

V) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-III) (Ph-III) (Ph-III) (Ph-III) (Ph-III) (Ph-III) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) (Ph-II) 

(Ph-II) 

Likely date of Mar 07 Dec 07 Sept 09 Sept 09 – Jan07 Dec 08 Dec 09 Feb 09 

completion 

Physical 90 15 – – – 95 05 – – 

Progress(%) 

Financial 90 45 30 30 20 95 30 20 10 

Progress(%) 

87 

87


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

88 88 88 




APPENDICES 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

89 

89


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

90 90 90 




Organisational Chart of Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 

Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 




Secretary (HUPA) 

JS (JNNURM) 

JS (F&A) 

JS (Housing) EA 

Dir. (NBO) 

Dir. (JNNURM) 

Dir (UPA) 

CCA 

D.S. (Admn & AA) 

D.S. (Coord) 

Dir. (H) 

DD (Data) 

DD (S&A) 

DD (BSUP) 

US 

(IHSDP) 

US (UPA) 

DS (Budget) 

US (AA) 

US (Admn.) 

DD (Monitoring) 

US (H) US (LCS) 

Project, Monitoring 

& Sanctionin 

Unit 

Statistics & Admn. 

AO 

SO (IHSDP) 

SO 

(UPA-III) 

SO 

(UPA-II) 

SO 

(UPA-I) 

SO (AA) 

SO (Admn) 

RTI, Committee & 

Commission 

Annual Report 

Misc. Reports 

SO (H) 

BMTPC, NCHF 

HPL, CGEWHO 

Foreign Deputation 

Custom Duty 

Housing Policy 

HUDCO, Training 

NAREDCO, FDI 

CREDAI 


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

APPENDIX - I 

UN-Habitat 

1. HUPA -Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, 2. JNNURM-Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, 3. NBO -National Buildings 

Organisation, 4. BSUP -Basic Services of Urban Poor, 5. IHSDP - Integrated Housing Slum Development Programme, 6. FA - 

Finance Adviser, 7. H - Housing, 8. CCA -Chief Controller of Accounts,9. DS -Deputy Secretary, 10. UPA -Urban Poverty 

Alleviation, 11. Admn - Administration,12. ILCS -Integrated Low Cost Sanitation, 13. S.S.- Social Service 

91 

91


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

APPENDIX - II 

SUBJECTS ALLOCATED TO THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN 

POVERTY ALLEVIATION 

1. Formulation of housing policy and programme (except rural housing which is assigned to the 

Department of Rural Development), review of the implementation of the Plan Schemes, collection 

and dissemination of data on housing, building materials and techniques, general measures 

for reduction of building costs and nodal responsibility for National Housing Policy. 

2. Human Settlements including the United Nations Commission for Human Settlements and 

International Cooperation and Technical Assistance in the field of Housing and Human 

Settlements. 

3. Urban Development including Slum Clearance Schemes and the Jhuggi and Jhopri Removal 

Schemes, International Cooperation and technical assistance in the field of Housing and Human 

Settlements. 

4. National Cooperative Housing Federation 

5. Implementation of the specific programmes evolved from time to time. 

6. All matters relating to the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) other than 

those relating to Urban Infrastructure. 

92 92 92 




ATTACHED AND SUBORDINATE OFFICES, PUBLIC SECTOR 

UNDERTAKINGS & STATUTORY AND AUTONOMOUS BODIES 

Attached Office 

1. National Buildings Organisation (NBO) 

Public Sector Undertakings 

1. Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) 

2. Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL) 

Statutory & Autonomous Bodies 

1. Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC) 

2. Central Govt. Employees Welfare Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) 

3. National Cooperative Housing Federation of India (NCHF) 





R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

APPENDIX - III 

93 

93


R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

STATEMENT SHOWING STAFF STRENGTH AS ON 31.12.2006 

S.N .N .N. .N Name Name of of of office office 

Group Group Group-A Group Group Group Group-B Group -B Group Group-C Group Group Group-D Group -D Work ork Total otal Staff 

Staff 

Gazetted Gazetted 

charged 

charged 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

A. Secretariat (including Attached and Subordinate Offices) 

1 M/o Housing & Urban 

Poverty Alleviation 

15 32 28 07 - 82 

2 National Buildings 

Organization 

9 7 8 15 - 39 

B. Public Sector Undertakings 

1 HUDCO 515 66 369 147 - 1097 

2 HPL* 15 15 262 132 - 424 

C. Statutory & Autonomous Bodies 

1 BMTPC 18 05 09 09 - 41 

2 CGEWHO 08 03 21 06 - 38 

3 NCHF 02** 06 02 03 2 (Adhoc) 15 

* HPL is a PSU and thus Group A & B posts are not considered as Gazetted posts. 

** Non-Gazetted 

APPENDIX - IV 

APPENDIX - V 

DEPARTMENT-WISE DETAILS OF OUTSTANDING INSPECTION REPORTS/ 

AUDIT OBJECTIONS AS ON 03/2006 IN RESPECT OF M/O HOUSING AND 

URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND ITS ATTACHED/SUBORDINATE 

OFFICES 

Sl. Sl. Office/ Office/ Departments Departments Inspection Inspection Inspection R RReports 

R eports Audit Audit Observations/P 

Observations/P 

Observations/Paras 

Observations/P aras 

No. No. 

(No.) (No.) 

(No.) 

(No.) 

1. Main Ministry 1 10 

2. National Buildings Organisation 2 12 

94 94 94 








R eport 2006-07 

2006-07 

APPENDIX - VI 

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT C&AG OBSERVATIONS 

Ministry of Urban Development & Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation 

Sl. Sl. Sl. Para ara No. No. No. 

Text ext of of the the P PPara 

P ara Reply eply 

No. No. /R /Report /R /Report 

eport No. No. 

No. 

1. (R (Report (R eport No.2 

No.2 

ofof2006- 2006- 20062006- Performance 

erformance 

Audit) 

Audit) 

Functioning of Internal Controls – Department of Urban 

Development 

There were persistent savings in a number of schemes suggesting 

lax controls in budget estimation and monitoring. 

Lack of effective monitoring of expenditure in the Ministries 

resulted in the rush of expenditure in the last quarter of final 

year. 

The Ministries did not undertake any work study for prescribing 

appropriate work norms and standards of output in terms of 

quality and quantity. 

The Ministry did not conduct the annual inspection of its sections/ 

desks as required under Central Secretariat Manual on Office 

Procedure (CSMOP). 

The Ministries had no policy to rotate the duties of employees, 

which resulted in officials working in particular sections for a 

very long period. 

The Ministries did not conduct physical verification of assets and 

library records despite this having been pointed out by the internal 

audit. 

Internal Audit Wing of the Ministries did not conduct any training 

programmes for upgradation of skills of its staff nor did it 

document annual audit plans. 

The Ministries did not take timely and adequate measures to 

rectify the deficiencies pointed out by Internal Audit wing. 

There was laxity in maintenance of control registers and review 

of service books. 

Lax internal controls resulted in non-receipt of 254 utilization 

certificates amounting to Rs.685 crore pending from various 

bodies for the period 1983-84 to 2003-04. 

Surprise check of case was not conducted for long periods. 

The internal Audit Wing of the 

Ministries does not conduct or impart 

training for their staff. However, the 

training of staff in different working 

fields is organized the Controller 

Genral of accounts through the 

Institute of Govt. Accounts& Finance 

(INGAF). Normally the trained and 

experienced staff is posted in Internal 

Audit Wing. 

The Internal audit programmes are 

prepared on quarterly basis ie., for 

3 months period. However, for the 

year 2007-08, the annual audit 

programme is under preparation 

95 

95

appendix - Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?