Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission's seven-year voyage seems to have yielded little, at a great cost. And, says a performance audit of the programme by the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG), the main reason has not been corruption or leakages but ennui and poor …
Thousands of unfinished projects, diversion of funds to the tune of . 115 crore and lack of accountability and monitoring were some findings of a CAG report on the Centre’s flagship urban renewal project, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), implemented by state governments. The CAG report on …
‘All the way from basic guidelines to implementation and monitoring of projects’. From basic guidelines to implementation and subsequent monitoring of projects, the Union Ministry of Urban Development’s flagship programme — the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission — has failed on all counts, says the Comptroller and Auditor General in …
The CAG has pointed out gaping loopholes in the implementation of the JNNURM, the Centre’s flagship urban infrastructure development scheme, ranging from diversion of funds to the tune of Rs115 crore to ineligible beneficiaries getting benefits, inadequate monitoring capacity and undue favours to contractors among several others. The Comptroller and …
Identification of urban poor households is a necessary condition for more effectively targeting the beneficiaries under various poverty alleviation programmes being implemented by the Central and the State Governments. Programmes of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, such as the Swarna Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojna (SJSRY) for Livelihoods, …
Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) is a method of working in which the public and private sectors cooperate and partner with each other to create infrastructure and/ or provide services to users. All PPP projects have multiple stakeholders such as the ULBs, citizens, private sector, and state and central governments. These stakeholders want …
This S R Hashim Committee report on urban poor submitted to UPA government in December 2012 set the criteria for identifying the poor living in urban areas for various government schemes.
Inordinate delays in project completion, diversion of around Rs 115 crore for other purposes, wasteful expenditures and ineligible beneficiaries getting benefits are among the several lapses found by CAG in implementation of UPA’s flagship urban infrastructure development scheme - Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Government auditor CAG, in …
The CAG's performance audit of JNNURM was tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The report was based on assessments conducted between April to November 2011 through test-check of records of ministries such as urban development, and housing and urban poverty alleviation, as well as various agencies of 25 states and five …
Houses built for the poor allotted to ineligible beneficiaries, diversion of over Rs 100 crore to unapproved ventures, and a huge lapse in completion of projects mark UPA’s flagship programme for urban areas — the JNNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission). The CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) has found …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat CM Narendra Modi often criticizes the Centre for injustices meted out to Gujarat. But when it comes to fund allocation for cities under Union government’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Modi’s constituency is the biggest beneficiary in Ahmedabad. Modi’s Maninagar received Rs 435 crore for JNNURM …
The JNNURM was launched in December 2005 with the objective of reforms-driven fast track development of cities across the country, with focus on efficiency in urban infrastructure, service delivery mechanism, community participation and accountability of ULBs/Parastatal agencies towards citizens. The performance audit covered the implementation of the JNNURM scheme for …
Construction of two major sewerage projects in the twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar has been awaiting completion for many years now. The work on the project was started in March 2008 under the Urban Infrastructure and Development Scheme (UIG) of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). …
This toolkit is focussed to provide a comprehensive knowledge of solid waste management for implementers, hence it has been prepared to provide vital information that a municipal manager will require while executing a project.Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is the trash or garbage that is discarded day to day in a …
The Centre will soon implement Phase II of the Rajiv Awas Yojna with a focus on providing long-term and bankable property rights to slum dwellers, Union Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken said, soon after taking charge of his new Ministry on Tuesday. Talking to journalists at his …
JAIPUR: In a rare feat for Jaipur Municipal Corporation, the Sewage Treatment Plant at Delawas (STP) has been included in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) best practices projects list. To promote similar practices in other countries, ADB is now sending teams to study the model. The 125 million litre per …
The Centre has issued guidelines asking the state governments to incorporate plans for water conservation and sewage disposal in the Master Plans for cities before any projects are sanctioned. Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath said that in the next phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), sustainable …
LUCKNOW: The ambitious project of installing solar-powered cantilever traffic signals at 40 major intersections across the city is stuck due to lack of proper planning and coordination between various agencies. The estimated Rs 3.6-crore build-operate-transfer project meant to ease traffic congestion and chaos remains incomplete as Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) …
The recent diktat of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike asking apartments, hotels and marriage halls (bulk generators) to segregate their waste and pay for the disposal appears to contravene the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act, 1976. Rule 103B of KMC Act states: “The corporation may, in addition to property tax levied …
PPPs in infra are on the cusp of disaster. The country needs a different strategy to build public services infrastructure Growth is back on the agenda, says the government. It is hoping that with pushy announcements foreign and Indian investment will miraculously start pouring in and infrastructure will be the …
