Chief Secretary AP Padhi, during a review of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme on Tuesday, directed the department to cover all households and entire population in AMRUT cities through pipe water supply as a top priority.
The meeting decided to prioritise the projects in the order of (i) drinking water, (ii) sewerage/ septage and (iii) parks and playgrounds.
As of now, a total number of 192 projects have been approved and taken up under AMRUT scheme. This includes 130 water supply projects, 14 septage projects and 48 park projects. All these projects have been tendered out and tender awards have been issued against 187 projects. So far, 42 projects have been completed. These projects involve an investment of around Rs 1,810 crore.
The scheme is financed by both the Central and State Governments on 50:50 sharing. These projects are being implemented in the cities like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Brahmapur, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Baleswar, Bhadrak and Baripada.
Odisha has qualified for national incentive on achievement of reform milestones consecutively for three years, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.
As per the AMRUT guidelines. a set of 11 reforms are to be implemented by the State as well as UlBs within a period of four years.
Assessment for the year 2017-18 shows the achievement in this matter has been 95% in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Brahmapur, 94.1% in Puri, 93.5% in Baleswar, 92.9% in Baripada, 91.8% in Sambalpur and 91.1% in Rourkela and 90.5% in Bhadrak.
The State has achieved 2nd position by scoring 53.19 marks in National Rating Framework by August 21. Andhra Pradesh was in 1st position by scoring 54.11 marks.