Centre okays Rs 438 crore for state’s AMRUT cities

Jaswinder Singh Baidwan

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The Centre today approved state-level annual action plans for 2015-2016 with an investment of Rs438 crore for Haryana, which has 18 AMRUT cities.
The amount was approved by inter-ministerial apex committee chaired by Secretary of Urban Development Madhusudhan Prasad for improvement of basic infrastructure of water supply, sewerage network services, storm water drains, non-motorised transport and availability of public spaces.
This amount is part of Rs3,120 crore approved today by the Union Ministry of Urban Development for improvement of basic infrastructure in 102 cities under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), an official of the Urban Development Ministry said
According to an official, there are 18 AMRUT cities in Haryana — Gurgaon, Rohtak, Hisar, Panipat, Karnal, Sonepat, Yamunanagar, Bhiwani, Ambala Cantt, Sirsa, Bahadurgarh, Jind, Thanesar, Kaithal, Rewari, Palwal, Jagadhari and Ambala City.
As per the State Annual Action Plan (SAAP) for 2015-16, presented by the Haryana Government, water supply at present in all 18 mission cities is below the norm for urban areas. It is only 43 litres per capita per day (lpcd) in Jind, 88 lpcd in Sonepat and a maximum of 130 lpcd in Gurgaon.
In other mission cities of Rohtak, Ambala Cantt, Thanesar, Sirsa, Hisar, Palwal, Karnal, Yamunanagar, Kaithal, Bhiwani, Ambala City, Rewari, Panipat, Bahadurgarh and Jagadhari, the present water supply is in the range of 102 lpcd to 127 lpcd.
For other states, the inter-ministerial apex committee approved SAAP for 2015-16 with an investment of Rs573 crore for Chhattisgarh for nine AMRUT cities, Rs416 crore for Telangana 12 AMRUT cities, Rs588 crore for nine cities of Kerala and Rs1, 105 crore for West Bengal, which has 54 Atal Mission cities.
The total investment in water supply projects in 58 mission states will be Rs2,386 crore, sewerage projects Rs495 crore in 17 cities, storm water drains Rs106 crore in nine cities, urban transport Rs61 crore in nine cities and Rs72 crore for development of parks and green spaces in all 102 cities.
The apex committee approved investments in different basic urban infrastructure areas as proposed by respective state governments. The Ministry of Urban Development will provide an assistance of Rs1,540 crore which is about 50 per cent of the total project expenditure approved today.
And the cities are...
Gurgaon, Rohtak, Hisar, Panipat, Karnal, Sonepat, Yamunanagar, Bhiwani, Ambala Cantt, Sirsa, Bahadurgarh, Jind, Thanesar, Kaithal, Rewari, Palwal, Jagadhari and Ambala City
 
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