CAG Report No. 11 of 2025 — Implementation of Smart City Mission, Government of Karnataka

Implementation of Projects and Monitoring
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562 completed projects (63 per cent), project impact assessment had been
completed as detailed in the Table 4.8.
Table 4.8: Details of Project Impact Assessment Reports
Source: Information furnished by UDD
SCP of each city contained the baseline survey and intended output and
outcomes after implementation of the Mission. The impact analysis carried out
by PMCs should specify whether the outcome/output was as per goals and
vision of Smart Cities. However, none of the project impact analysis reports
submitted by PMCs benchmarked the outcomes/impact of the project against
the goal metrics substantiated with requisite data/information, thus defeating the
purpose of impact analysis.
Recommendation 6: The State Government should ensure that
roads/pavements laid adhere to IRC standards and recommendations of
technical committee.
4.10 Absence of coordination between SPVs and user Department
Audit observed that infrastructure under the Smart Road projects remained
unutilised due to provision of infrastructure without taking into consideration
the requirement of end user department as detailed below:
4.10.1 Non-utilisation of water pipelines laid in Smart Road projects
The BSCL laid 315mm MDPE34 pipes for a length of 5.72 km for waterline in
utility ducts in three smart road packages in Belagavi city based on the final
DPR (February 2018) for road development projects.
The proposal of up-scaling 24×7 water supply to three cities35 at an estimated
cost of ₹1,809.00 crore had been approved (November 2013) under Karnataka
Urban Water Supply Modernisation Project (KUWSMP) by KUIDFC. The
SCP for BSCL (approved by 2nd HPSC on 11 December 2015) also included
24×7 water supply project under convergence duly considering the scheme
already implemented by KUIDFC. However, BSCL failed to coordinate with
the implementing agency and ascertain the end user’s requirements as
Superintending Engineer (SE), KUWSMP intimated (November 2022) that the
34 Medium Density Polyethylene.
35 Belagavi, Kalaburagi, and Hubballi-Dharwad cities.
Smart City Projects completed Projects for which Impact
analysis completed
Belagavi 97 80
Bengaluru 32 19
Davanagere 85 30
Hubballi-Dharwad 55 14
Mangaluru 39 18
Shivamogga 75 49
Tumakuru 179 146
Total 562 356