*Nod to changes in urban renewal norms*
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Statesman News Service
NEW DELHI, Aug. 24: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today
approved modifications in the guidelines of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as also a scheme for critical flood control and
anti-erosion in the Brahmaputra and Barak valley.
The modification in the JNNURM guidelines is for both the sub-mission for
urban infrastructure and governance and sub-mission for basic services to
the urban poor, the information and broadcasting minister, Mr Priya Ranjan
Das Munshi, said at the end of the meeting chaired by Prime Minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh.
The modifications would: a) expand the present composition of central
sanctioning and monitoring committee (CSMC) for sanctioning projects by
incorporating as members secretaries of finance (expenditure), environment
and forests, social justice and empowerment, health and family welfare and
education.
b) It would authorise the CSMC to appraise and sanction projects costing up
to Rs 500 crore with the approval of the urban development minister, the
housing and urban poverty alliaviation minister or the finance minister as
the case may be. All projects costing above Rs 500 would be brought before
the EFC/CCEA as per the normal procedure.
In the other decision, the CCEA approved a scheme amounting to Rs 225 crore
for critical flood control and anti-erosion projects in the Brahmaputra and
Barak valley by the concerned state governments for Rs 205 crore and by the
Brahmaputra Board for Rs 20 crore during the X Plan period.
The approval followed recommendations of a Task Force set up by the Prime
Minister in 2004 after severe floods in Assam, Mr Dasmunsi said. Though all
the recommendations were not taken up, the scheme would protect the life and
properties of the people and installations from natural calamities, like
flood and erosion caused by the rivers Brahmaputra and the Barak in the
North-Eastern states, including Sikkim and West Bengal, he said.
The Brahmaputra and the Barak Basin states, comprising Assam, Arunachal
Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim, North Bengal, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya and
Manipur, face the fury of the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers and their
tributaries year after year. The state governments do not have sufficient
resources to tackle this problem. But the centre had provided a total of Rs
390.94 crore as central loan assistance and Rs 10.09 crore as grant-in-aid
to Assam from 1974-75 onwards for executing flood control schemes in the
Brahmaputra Basin up to March 2000.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2&theme=&usrsess=1&id=127594
Statesman News Service
NEW DELHI, Aug. 24: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today
approved modifications in the guidelines of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as also a scheme for critical flood control and
anti-erosion in the Brahmaputra and Barak valley.
The modification in the JNNURM guidelines is for both the sub-mission for
urban infrastructure and governance and sub-mission for basic services to
the urban poor, the information and broadcasting minister, Mr Priya Ranjan
Das Munshi, said at the end of the meeting chaired by Prime Minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh.
The modifications would: a) expand the present composition of central
sanctioning and monitoring committee (CSMC) for sanctioning projects by
incorporating as members secretaries of finance (expenditure), environment
and forests, social justice and empowerment, health and family welfare and
education.
b) It would authorise the CSMC to appraise and sanction projects costing up
to Rs 500 crore with the approval of the urban development minister, the
housing and urban poverty alliaviation minister or the finance minister as
the case may be. All projects costing above Rs 500 would be brought before
the EFC/CCEA as per the normal procedure.
In the other decision, the CCEA approved a scheme amounting to Rs 225 crore
for critical flood control and anti-erosion projects in the Brahmaputra and
Barak valley by the concerned state governments for Rs 205 crore and by the
Brahmaputra Board for Rs 20 crore during the X Plan period.
The approval followed recommendations of a Task Force set up by the Prime
Minister in 2004 after severe floods in Assam, Mr Dasmunsi said. Though all
the recommendations were not taken up, the scheme would protect the life and
properties of the people and installations from natural calamities, like
flood and erosion caused by the rivers Brahmaputra and the Barak in the
North-Eastern states, including Sikkim and West Bengal, he said.
The Brahmaputra and the Barak Basin states, comprising Assam, Arunachal
Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim, North Bengal, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya and
Manipur, face the fury of the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers and their
tributaries year after year. The state governments do not have sufficient
resources to tackle this problem. But the centre had provided a total of Rs
390.94 crore as central loan assistance and Rs 10.09 crore as grant-in-aid
to Assam from 1974-75 onwards for executing flood control schemes in the
Brahmaputra Basin up to March 2000.