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Tuesday, Apr 04, 2006
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Urban Development PM holds review meeting of Urban Renewal Mission Our Bureau
New Delhi , April 3 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today chaired a review meeting of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), which aims at improving urban infrastructure and urban basic services in over 60 cities with a million plus population. Lauding the Urban Development Ministry for taking up eight city development plans within months of launching the mission, the Prime Minister underlined the importance of focusing on the welfare of the poor and the dispossessed in pursuing urban renewal and development. "The Urban Renewal Mission is not an elitist project to beautify cities, but it is an important social and economic intervention in urban development aimed at improving the quality of life of slum-dwellers and the poor," Dr Singh said. Reporting the progress in the implementation of the mission, the Union Minister for Urban Development, Mr Jaipal Reddy, informed the meeting that in three months of the launch of the mission, as many as eight cities in four States had already submitted city development plans and had indicated their commitment to city level reform initiatives to secure entitlement to funds under the project. These cities are Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Indore, Nagpur, Rajkot, Surat, and Vijawada. Mr Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys and member of the advisory group, said the mission "does not view the poor and the migrants as a burden, but in fact views them as a resource." Among the reforms that cities would have to undertake under this mission are slum improvement programmes and resource mobilisation initiatives. State Governments would have to rationalise and reduce stamp duty. Public Disclosure and Community Participation laws would have to be enacted to reform urban governance.
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