The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will not receive any additional funds for infrastructural projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as the BJP government has finally drawn the curtains on the scheme and scrapped the previous government's plan to launch the second phase.
The new government has announced its own plan to develop smart satellite/ twin cities along with a new mission for urban development.
Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu told Rajya Sabha members that JNNURM had ended on March 31. Launched in 2005 and implemented till 2012 in the first phase, the scheme was extended by the Congress government till 2014.
The closure of the mission means civic bodies, including the PMC, will not get any new funds for infrastructural development under this mission. However, the civic body will get the JNNURM funds promised by the previous government.
Sources in the state urban development department said the state government has received a communication from the Centre that it would not stop flow of promised funds to civic bodies under JNNURM.“Civic bodies will get the JNNURM funds as promised by the Congress government. However, no new proposal will be approved,“ said a government official.
The BJP government is finalizing the contours of the new scheme. In its annual budget, the government has provided Rs 7,060 crore for developing “one hundred smart cities“ which will be developed as satellite towns of large cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities.
A senior PMC official said the civic bodies will have to shell out more money to complete the JNNURM projects as the government will not provide funds to match the gaps between the released funds and inflated rates of actual implementation.
The union urban development department will study all the incomplete projects under the JNNURM and find a `solution' to get the works done, according to government sources.
The new government has announced its own plan to develop smart satellite/ twin cities along with a new mission for urban development.
Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu told Rajya Sabha members that JNNURM had ended on March 31. Launched in 2005 and implemented till 2012 in the first phase, the scheme was extended by the Congress government till 2014.
The closure of the mission means civic bodies, including the PMC, will not get any new funds for infrastructural development under this mission. However, the civic body will get the JNNURM funds promised by the previous government.
Sources in the state urban development department said the state government has received a communication from the Centre that it would not stop flow of promised funds to civic bodies under JNNURM.“Civic bodies will get the JNNURM funds as promised by the Congress government. However, no new proposal will be approved,“ said a government official.
The BJP government is finalizing the contours of the new scheme. In its annual budget, the government has provided Rs 7,060 crore for developing “one hundred smart cities“ which will be developed as satellite towns of large cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities.
A senior PMC official said the civic bodies will have to shell out more money to complete the JNNURM projects as the government will not provide funds to match the gaps between the released funds and inflated rates of actual implementation.
The union urban development department will study all the incomplete projects under the JNNURM and find a `solution' to get the works done, according to government sources.
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