 bill no 111 of 2016 the special financial assistance to the national capital territory of delhi bill, 2016 byshri ramesh bidhuri, mp a billto provide for special financial assistance to national capital territory of delhi for thepurpose of development works related to roads, housing, health care centres, schools, skill development and training centres, development and welfareschemes for women, children and poor people living in the backwardregions and urban poor villages of the national capital territoryof  delhi and for the matters connected therewithbe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—short title and commencement1 (1) this act may be called the special financial assistance to the national capital territory of delhi act, 20162 there shall be paid such sums of money out of the consolidated fund of india, every year, as parliament may by due appropriation provide, as special financial assistance to the national capital territory of delhi to meet the costs of such development works and welfare schemes, as may be undertaken by the government of national capital territory of delhi with approval of the central government for the purposes of—special financial assistance to the national capital territory of delhi(i) developing good quality infrastructure, roads, street lights, school, college,health centres and transport facilities;(ii) providing clean drinking water and sanitation in backward urban villages; (iii) constructing community centres in urban villages;5(iv) improving the health standards of children and women living in backwardurban villages;(v) improving educational standards of the children living in urban villages; (vi) skill development of unemployed youth members of families living belowpoverty line;(vii) providing employment to the members of families living below poverty line;10(viii) undertaking measures for lowering of infant mortality rate, improvingmaternal health and promoting safe and institutional delivery;(ix) creating awareness about the disaster preparedness plan and trainingpeople to deal with disaster;15(x) providing social security benefits to the old aged persons living in backwardregions;(xi) implementing welfare schemes for workers, labourers and migrants; (xii) implementing swachch bharat abhiyan in backward urban villages; (xiii) implementing rural tourism in urban villages of historical importance;and20(xiv) promoting the entrepreneurial works in urban villages3 the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other law for the time being in forceact not to be in derogation of other laws statement of objects and reasonsthe backward urban villages of delhi is needed to be developed the backward regions of delhi need financial assistance from the central government for the successful completion of various development works and welfare schemes of central government as well as the delhi government urban villages within delhi are not much developed due to inappropriate financial assistance provided to these villages the basic development indicators of these villages are very low and alarming the villages are noq at the edge of loosening the track of development the unplanned expansion of delhi is creating some critical juncture in path of development of these backward urban villages many villages in delhi located near the haryana-delhi border and uttar pradesh-delhi border are witnessing lack of basic development infrastructure, education and health facilities special focus is also required for improving the educational facilities for children, welfare of labourers and daily wage workers, well being of girl child, social securities to old age persons in the backward urban villages of the national capital territory of delhi it is, therefore, necessary that the union government should provide special financial assistance to these regions of the national capital territory of delhihence this billnew delhi;ramesh bidhuriapril 11, 2016 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill provides that there shall be paid such sums of money out of the consolidated fund of india, every year, as parliament may be due appropriation provide, as special financial assistance to the national capital territory of delhi to meet the costs of such development works and welfare schemes, as may be undertaken by the government of national capital territory of delhi with approval of the central governmentthe bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure out of the consolidated fund of india it is not possible, at present, to give estimates of recurring expenditure, which would be involved out of the consolidated fund of indiano non-recurring expenditure is likely to be incurred from the consolidated fund of india———— a billto provide for special financial assistance to national capital territory of delhi for thepurpose of development works related to roads, housing, health care centres, schools, skill development and training centres, development and welfareschemes for women, children and poor people living in the backwardregions and urban poor villages of the national capital territory ofdelhi and for the matters connected therewith————(shri ramesh bidhuri, mp)