C Shivakumar
Chennai:
The 12 smart cities of Tamil Nadu will each have a
special purpose vehicle formed under the Companies Act 2013 and will be
promoted by the state as well as urban local body jointly with equal
shareholding.
According to a Government Order accessed by The New
Indian Express, the director of municipal administration or a Secretary Level
Officer will be the Chairman of the Special Purpose Vehicle Board while in
Chennai, the Commissioner of Chennai Corporation will be the Chairman of the
Special Purpose Vehicle, which will have a 50:50 equity share holding by the
state and the urban local body.
Each special purpose vehicle, which have been granted
administrative sanction, will have five directors and a chairman. The directors
will be from Union ministry of urban development, state finance ministry, corporation
or municipal commissioner, chief executive officer of SPV and two independent
directors.
The chairman will be either the Chennai corporation
commissioner or director of municipal administration or secretary level
officer.
In order to ensure operational independence and autonomy
in decision making, the approval or decision making powers will be made available
to the Municipal Administration Department and the matters that require the
approval of the State Government may be delegated, respectively, to the Board
of Directors of the Special Purpose Vehicle and the State Level High Powered Steering
Committee for Smart Cities, on a case-to-case basis, the Government Order stated.
The government has also accorded clearance to form a 10-member
city level inter-departmental task force which would have the district
collector as chairman. It will have a member convenor who will be municipal
commissioner or Corporation commissioner with regards to Chennai. It will have
CEO of SPV besides, engineering director of metro water or superintending or
executive engineer of TWAD board as member.
Other members will be selected from Tangedco, highways
department, assistant director of town and country planning, executive engineer
TNHB and slum clearance board and district information officer.
The GO has also constituted the City Level Smart City Advisory
Forum for each smart city to advise and enable collaboration among various
stake holders. “The district collector or corporation commissioner (for
Chennai) will be the chairman with MP being the co-chairman. The members would
be MLA, Mayor, City Commissioner (other than Chennai), CEO of SPV, local youth,
technical expert and NGO or chanmber of commerce or slum level federation.
The state has also constituted a State Level High Powered
Steering Committee with state chief secretary as chairman.
The state has also given administrative sanction for
designating chairman and managing director of Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and
Infrastructure Development Corporation as the State Mission Director and the
Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation as Mission Directorate
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