[mpisgmedia] 1ST BATCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS CLEARED UNDER URBAN RENEWAL MISSION

1ST BATCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS CLEARED UNDER URBAN RENEWAL MISSION
PIB press release
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14:47 IST
The Union Urban Development Ministry has cleared the first batch of
infrastructure projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission. The eight member Central Sanctioning and Monitoring
Committee, CSMC in its first ever meeting in the capital yesterday
gave its green signal to the projects worth of about 400 crore rupees.
The projects sanctioned under the submission, infrastructure and
governance are expansion and upgradation of water supply, water leak
detection, storm water drainage, water pipelines, water treatment
plants, water channels and road over bridges. The central committee
has sanctioned five projects to Nagpur, 4 to Hyderabad, 1 project each
to Ahmedabad and Bhopal. The central assistance to these sanctioned
projects is about 165 crore rupees and the first installment would be
about 40 crore rupees.

The Urban Development Ministry will send its sanction to these
projects to Department of Expenditure, Finance Ministry in two to
three days for the release of the first installment of funds. The CMSC
will again meet on the 27th of this month to consider other completed
projects under the JNNURM.

The Mission would release the Central Assistance in four installments
depending upon the implementation of the sanctioned projects under the
Urban Renewal Mission and adhering to the reforms mandated.


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