Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Reviews JNNURM With States and Union Territories
New Delhi, Jan 25, 2012: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) conducted a JNNURM all India review meeting here yesterday evening. The meeting was chaired by Secretary (HUPA), Shri Arun Kumar Misra.
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to cover several new cities
New Delhi, Jan 17, 2012: Investment to be upped to Rs 2 lakh crThe Centre is working on a new Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) that will see more cities covered by the infrastructure improvement project, with a massive hike in investment.
The Union Urban Development Ministry has started working on the new modified scheme, as the current JnNURM scheme launched in December 2005 will end on March 2012.
PM mulls over Rs.1,000 crore corpus for housing loans to Urban Poor
New Delhi, Dec 13, 2011: The Government of India is considering creating a corpus fund of Rs.1,000 crore ($18.7 million) in the current fiscal that would encourage banks to give housing loans in 'significant volumes' to the urban poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday.
Addressing a conference on the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) here, Manmohan Singh said the corpus of Rs.1,000 would be set aside to create a credit risk guarantee fund that could be used to cover any bank losses.
PM Manmohan Singh Inaugurates JNNURM National Conference on the Sixth Anniversary of JNNURM
New Delhi, Dec 14, 2011: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the National Conference of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission in New Delhi. The National Conference was organised on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
JNNURM: Road ahead for urban renewal
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission will complete its first phase of seven years in March 2012. What next? Though there is no indication yet as to whether there will be a second phase, there is a distinct possibility that JNNURM will be continued, and that this will be reflected in the Five-Year shape and form it will take, the changes made on the basis of the experience so far, and the size of the mission — all these are unknown factors.
National Urban Sanitation Policy: Towards City Wide Sanitation
With a vision to ensure that all Indian cities and towns become totally sanitized, healthy and livable, ensure and sustain public health and environmental outcomes for all their citizens, the policy aims at development of state sanitation strategies and city sanitation plans, creation of open defecation free cities & sanitary and safe disposal of all human and liquid wastes.
Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small & Medium towns (UIDSSMT)
Urban Renewal is one of the thrust areas in the National Common Minimum Programme of the Government and accordingly Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched on 3rd December 2005 with an investment of Rs.1,00,000.00 crores in Mission period of seven years beginning 2005-06. Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) is one of the components of JNNURM. The Mission is the single largest initiative of the Government of India for planned development of cities and towns.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU NATIONAL URBAN RENEWAL MISSION (JNNURM)
The aim is to encourage reforms and fast track planned development of identified cities. Focus is to be on efficiency in urban infrastructure and service delivery mechanisms, community participation, and accountability of ULBs/ Parastatal agencies towards citizens. Read More
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Revolving Fund for Household WatSan Facilities - Experiences; Referrals
Fri, 2010-07-16 11:59 — ramamaniFrom Kulwant Singh, UN-HABITAT, New Delhi
Posted 28 August 2007
Dear Members,
Under the Water for Asian Cities Programme, UN-HABITAT is working in four cities of Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur) for improvement and expansion of urban water supply, sewerage and sanitation, water drainage and solid waste management. UN-HABITAT has set up a revolving fund for financing small community managed water and sanitation initiatives in the project towns of Madhya Pradesh. A set of guidelines for the revolving fund, duly endorsed by the State Government of Madhya Pradesh, have been developed for this purpose. The revolving funds are so far working quite satisfactorily.
Conservancy Staff and Municipal Sanitation-Experiences; Advice
Fri, 2010-07-16 11:21 — ramamaniFrom Aparna Das, UNDP, New Delhi
Posted 11 January 2007
Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, large investments are to be made for modernizing and upgrading sewage and solid waste management facilities in cities (See http://www.urbanindia.nic.in/moud/programme/ud/jnnurm.htm for details).
