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Project categories :
For Mission Cities
UIG- Urban Infrastructure &
Governance System
BSUP - Basic Services to the Urban
Poor
For Non Mission Towns
UIDSSMT - Urban Infrastructure
Development for Small and Medium Small
IHSDP - Integrated Housing for
Slum Development Programme
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The Government of India has made a budgetary provision of
Rs.50,000 Crore over a period of 7 years involving 63 cities of
India, of which 4 are mega cities, in realization of the gigantic tasks involved in implementation of JNNURM,. In West Bengal, two cities viz.
Kolkata i.e. Kolkata Metropolitan Area that encompasses 41 ULBS including 3 municipal corporations and Asansol Urban Area that
have 5 ULBs including 2 municipal
corporations. Other 80 ULBs known as non mission cities will have
progrmmes of IHSDP & UIDSSMT. |
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In consideration of the fact that the responses of the city
governments are not in conformity with the country's socio economic
objectives and also India's growing role in the world economy, the
Government of India has decided to launch the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
This programme aims at
creating economically productive, efficient, equitable and
responsive cities, with focus on
(i) improving and augmenting the
economic and social infrastructure of cities;
(ii) ensuring basic
services to the urban poor including security of tenure at
affordable prices;
(iii) initiating wide-ranging urban sector
reforms with the primary object of eliminating legal, institutional
and financial constraints that impede investment in urban
infrastructure and services; and
(iv) strengthening municipal
governments and their functioning in accordance with the provisions
of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) of 1992.
The Mission endeavours to enable cities to create appropriate framework
including incentives and support for implementation of urban reforms
at both the State and city levels, to enhance credit worthiness of
municipal governments and to integrate the poor with service
delivery systems. |
It would be worthwhile to note that
there are two Sub Missions under JNNURM. Sub Mission-I, titled Urban
Infrastructure and Governance, would deal with up-gradation/renewal
of basic infrastructure in the selected cities and towns and
implementation of various reforms pertaining to improved municipal
governance including sustenance of development initiatives.
The Sub
Mission-ll, styled as Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP), is
addressed exclusively to urban poor living in slum/squatter
settlements in cities and towns. This component would focus on
improvement of living conditions of the urban poor by way of
providing housing along with infrastructure, with a view to
gradually removing slums/squatter settlements from cities and also
providing security of tenure to the urban poor.
The sectors and
projects eligible for assistance under JNNURM Sub Mission-I, i.e.
Urban Infrastructure & Governance, include water supply,
sanitation & sewerage, solid waste management, drainage, urban
transport, heritage conservation, urban renewal and the like.
Essentially, the programme focuses on up-gradation of basic
infrastructure and services.
While the pace of urbanization has been on the rise with the size of
absolute urban population increasing year after another, leading to
increased demand for urban infrastructure and services, the shortage
of resources of the municipal governments became too
acute, notwithstanding invocation of the 74th Constitutional
Amendment Act of 1992. Most municipalities are starved of resources
on account of their inability to effectively use their revenue
raising power, particularly relating to property. |
