{
 "no": 62,
 "id": "case-62",
 "sk": 20150625,
 "year": 2015,
 "date": "Launched 25 Jun 2015",
 "cat": "Public money",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "100 smart cities. One finished on time",
 "stamp": "Deadline moved five times",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>100</b> cities enrolled. A parliamentary panel found <b>Madurai alone</b> had completed all its projects by December 2023, while <b>14</b> cities stood at or below half — Gangtok at <b>16%</b>, Shillong <b>24%</b>, Itanagar <b>31%</b>",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "<b>₹48,000 cr</b> of central outlay against <b>₹1.64 lakh cr</b> of projects taken up. <b>₹11,775 cr</b> went on command and control centres, the one item all 100 cities managed to finish",
  "est": false
 },
 "what": "Launched on 25 June 2015 for 100 cities, each given five years from the date of its selection. The mission took up 8,064 projects worth ₹1.64 lakh crore against a central outlay of ₹48,000 crore.",
 "dodge": "The deadline moved from 2019-20 to June 2023, then June 2024, then March 2025, then June 2025, then December 2025. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs found in February 2024 that 400 projects worth ₹22,814 crore would miss even that, and that the ministry's answer was that states would have to finish them at their own cost — prompting the committee to observe that the ministry's role 'should not be confined to transfer of their share'. Only 6% of projects were financed through public-private partnership against a targeted 21%, which is the mission's financing model failing rather than lagging. Nearly a year after official closure, 280 projects worth ₹8,652 crore were still under implementation, and the unfinished work is the expensive work: ₹29 crore average for what is still running against ₹20.1 crore for what is done.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs",
   "r": "Owns the mission; five deadline extensions, unfinished projects passed to states"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The ministry's position is that the mission was never meant to transform whole cities: it was deliberately an area-based development model of retrofitting, redevelopment and greenfield work inside a defined area, plus one pan-city digital initiative, intended to create a replicable template. On that yardstick it reports 97% project completion, 99% of the central share claimed and 98% of released funds used as of March 2026, and cites a NITI Aayog evaluation of September 2025 finding the mission demonstrated strong relevance to India's urban needs.",
 "alleg": "The ₹48,000 cr is the Union allocation alone; the ₹1.64 lakh cr is total project value including state, convergence and private funding. The widely repeated claim that only 18 of 100 cities declared full completion is <em>unverified</em> and is not relied on here.",
 "alt": "Deadlines that are met or explained, a published city-by-city completion table, and a financing model tested somewhere before 100 cities are enrolled in it.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "400 projects to miss the deadline",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/india/400-smart-city-mission-projects-to-miss-june-30-deadline-states-must-take-over-panel-told-9152108/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20240523185757/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/400-smart-city-mission-projects-to-miss-june-30-deadline-states-must-take-over-panel-told-9152108/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Mission set to end 31 March 2025",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/india/smart-cities-set-to-end-march-31-but-7-projects-likely-to-go-on-9888105/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250828082608/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/smart-cities-set-to-end-march-31-but-7-projects-likely-to-go-on-9888105/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Rajya Sabha reply: status to Mar 2026",
   "url": "https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/nation-was-sold-a-half-baked-scheme-rahul-slams-govt-on-smart-cities-mission/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260509225918/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/nation-was-sold-a-half-baked-scheme-rahul-slams-govt-on-smart-cities-mission/"
  },
  {
   "label": "A decade on, the mission still lags",
   "url": "https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/a-decade-on-smart-cities-mission-struggles-to-cross-the-finish-line-13727720.html",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20251216100240/https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/a-decade-on-smart-cities-mission-struggles-to-cross-the-finish-line-13727720.html"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "costInrCrore": 48000
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-62/"
}