State Urban Development Agency was set up in 1991 with a view to ensuring proper implementation and monitoring of the centrally assisted programmes for generating employment opportunities and alleviation of poverty throughout the State. SUDA is a Society registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961.
Functions of SUDA
monitoring and implementation of the state urban poverty programme and policy within the overall state urban strategy;
to provide technical support to districts / towns to achieve convergence
targets and participatory systems;
to formulate, coordinate and monitor the state training plan ;
to mobilise resources and determine allocations of poverty alleviation programme based on the need and performance;
to guide and
supervise the programme implementation through visits to the
projects; and
report the programme status monthly, or as per requirement from time to
time to the Department of UEPA, Government of India;
to act as a nodal
agency for accessing loans from financial institutions with
approval of the State Government;
to act as a fund
flow agency for various development programmes of the State
Government;
