The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is a ministry of the

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with executive authority over the formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to the housing and

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. The ministry was under the charge of

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and was given to Hardeep Singh Puri when Naidu was elected

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. The Ministry became independent from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in 2004, but was later re-merged with it in 2017. The ministry also published the National City Rating, which ranked the

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, under which

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was rated as the cleanest. The ministry announced Smart Cities in India on 27 August 2015. In July 2019, the ministry released specifications for Metrolite transport system - a cheaper, smaller and slower metro system. This ministry is the Cadre Controlling Authority (CCA) of the three cadres in CPWD: 1) Central Architects Services (CAS) 2) Central Engineering Services (CES) 3) Central Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Services (CEMES) These are Group A Civil Services.

Organisation

Attached Offices

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(CPWD) * Directorate of Estates * Directorate of Printing * Land & Development Office

Subordinate Offices

* Town & Country Planning Organisation * Stationery Office * Department of Publication

Statutory Bodies

* Delhi Urban Arts Commission * National Capital Region Planning Board * National Institute of Urban Affairs * Rajghat Samadhi Committee * Delhi Development Authority (DDA)

Autonomous Bodies

* Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES) in Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mumbai

Central Public Sector Undertakings

* NBCC (India) Limited * Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited * Hindustan Prefab Limited * National Capital Region Transport Corporation * Urban Mass Transit Company (UMTC)

Schemes

Smart Cities Mission Smart Cities Mission was an urban renewal and retrofitting program by the Government of India with the mission to develop smart cities across the country, making them citizen-friendly and sustainable. The Union Ministry of Urban Development ...

* HRIDAY * AMRUT * Urban Transport *

Swachh Bharat Mission Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defe ...

* Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) * PM Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi)

Joint ventures

Delhi Metro The Delhi Metro is a rapid transit system that serves Delhi and the adjoining satellite cities of Faridabad, Gurugram, Noida, Bahadurgarh, and Ballabhgarh in the National Capital Region (India), National Capital Region of India. The system cons ...

* Chennai Metro *

Kolkata Metro The Kolkata Metro is a Urban rail transit in India, rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the Kolkata metropolitan area, Kolkata Metropolitan Region in West Bengal, India. Opened in 1984, it was the first operational rapid trans ...

* Bangalore Metro *

Rapid Metro Gurgaon Rapid Metro Gurgaon is a light metro system serving the city of Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Rapid Metro connects the commercial areas of Gurgaon, and acts as a feeder link to the Delhi Metro with an interchange with its Yellow Line (Delhi Metro), ...

* Jaipur Metro *

Mumbai Metro The Mumbai Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Mumbai and the wider Mumbai Metropolitan Region in Maharashtra, India. While the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited is responsible for all metro rail projects being develope ...

Lucknow Metro The Lucknow Metro is a mass rapid transit (MRT) system in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The metro is owned and operated by the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC). The frequency of the metro's services is around 5 - 7 minutes. Alo ...

* Kochi Metro *

Noida Metro The Noida Metro is a rapid transit system serving the twin cities of Noida and Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, India. The metro network consists of one line (Aqua Line (Noida Metro), Aqua Line), with a total length of serving List of Noida Gr ...

Navi Mumbai Metro The Navi Mumbai Metro is a rapid transit system in the city of Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The planning and construction of the Navi Mumbai Metro was overseen by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO). The system is planne ...

Mumbai Monorail The MMRDA Mumbai Monorail is a monorail line in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, built as part of a major expansion of public transport in Mumbai, public transport in the city. The project is operated by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region De ...

Nagpur Metro Nagpur Metro is a rapid transit system for the city of Nagpur, located in the state of Maharashtra, India. The system consists of 2 colour-coded lines serving 37 stations, with a total length of 38.2 kilometres (23.7 mi). It is the List of ...

References

External links

Ministry website
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