Rs 827.85 cr allocated to UD Ministry under Commonwealth Games

An amount of Rs 827.85 crore has been allocated to the Ministry of Urban Development in connection with the Commonwealth Games this year, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

The amount has been allocated to the Ministry for releasing to Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to develop Games Village, and other competition and Training venues, Minister of State for Urban Development Saugata Ray said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

Apart from this, an amount of Rs.73.5 crore has been allocated for Installation of Security System (ISS) in the venues being developed by DDA. So far, an amount of Rs 724.45 crore has been released to the DDA (Rs652.25 crore for infrastructure development and Rs 72.2 crore for ISS). The DDA has informed that an amount of Rs 588.77 crore has been utilized for infrastructure development and Rs38.36 crore has been released for undertaking the ISS.