The Apex Committee, constituted under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), has approved the projects amounting to Rs4,745.27 crore for mission period up to year 2020-21 for the 20 cities of Haryana.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Secretary, Union Ministry of Urban Development. Madhusudan Prasad at New Delhi on Thursday.
Giving details of the project, Principal Secretary Haryana Urban local Bodies Mahavir Singh said that under this scheme, 20 cities of Haryana namely, Gurgaon, Panchkula, Ambala City, Ambala Sadar, Yamuna Nagar, Jagadhari, Karnal, Hisar, Rohtak, Faridabad, Panipat, Kaithal, Rewari, Bhiwani, Thanesar, Sonepat, Bahadurgarh, Palwal, Sirsa and Jind would be covered.
Under the 20 mission cities, 81 projects of water supply costing Rs1547.84 crore, 73 projects of sewerage costing Rs1536.42 crore, 41 projects of drainage costing Rs770.56 crore, 68 projects of Urban transport costing Rs674.12 crore and 119 projects development of open spaces or parks costing Rs216.32 crore were approved.
During the current financial year 2015-16, a provision of Rs439.02 crores (Rs219.01 crores as Central Share and Rs220.01 crore as State Share) has been made in the State budget for the AMRUT.
He said that as per mission guidelines, Service level Improvement Plans (SlIP) or State Annual Action Plan (SAAP) were to be prepared to get the assistance from the Centre. The State Government organized two days handholding workshop on August 19 and 20 and the same were again organized on September 23 and 24 to give detailed guidelines to the officers of the concerned Urban local Bodies for preparation of SlIP.
The SlIPs were prepared by each Urban local Body after assessing Service level Gaps. Based on the SlIPs, State level Annual Action Plan (SAAP) was prepared and the same was approved in the State level High powered Committee in its meeting held under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi on November 9.
A copy of the approved SAAP was then sent to the Centre on November 13 for approval, said Mahavir Singh.