Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission

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rdf:langString Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was a massive city-modernization scheme launched by the Government of India under the Ministry of Urban Development. It envisaged a total investment of over $20 billion over seven years. It is named after Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. 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. Motto of the Mission Motto of the JNNURM are to ensure that the following are achieved in the urban sector. (a) Focused attention to integrated development of infrastructure services in cities covered under the Mission;. (b) Establishment of linkages between asset-creation and asset-management through a slew of reforms for long-term project sustainability. c) Ensuring adequate funds to meet the deficiencies in urban infrastructural services. (d) Planned development of identified cities including peri-urban areas, outgrowths and urban corridors leading to dispersed urbanization. (e) Scale-up delivery of civic amenities and provision of utilities with emphasis on universal access to the urban poor. The scheme was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 3 December 2005 as a programme meant to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in the cities. It was launched in 2005 for a seven-year period (up to March 2011) to encourage cities to initiate steps for bringing phased improvements in their civic service levels. The government had extended the tenure of the mission for another two years, i.e., from April 2012 to 31 March 2014. JNNURM was a huge mission which relates primarily to development in the context of urban conglomerates focusing to the Indian cities. JNNURM aims at creating 'economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive cities' by a strategy of upgrading the social and economic infrastructure in cities, provision of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) and wide-ranging urban sector reforms to strengthen municipal governance in accordance with the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992.