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Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission

CCS JNNURM UPDATE

• Download the Delhi Citizen Critique of the City Development Plan
• CCS Booklets on JNNURM reforms
  
• "Delhi Government did not follow guidelines for loans" (Gaurav Bhatnagar, The Hindu, 19-4-07)
  
• Delhi City Development Plan
  
• Delhi Government provides a copy of the Delhi CDP after appeal against previous RTI response
  
• Press Conference on the Delhi CDP held on 16 March 2007
  
• Letter (pdf) to Delhi Government requesting it to form the Delhi Technical Advisory Group

JNNURM - THE CONCEPT

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is a project of the central government. Through this project, the central government will fund cities for developing urban infrastructure and services. The cities will have to carry out mandated reforms in return. The mission will last for a period of seven years starting December 2005. The total central government funding will be Rs. 50,000 crores. Adding the contribution of states and municipalities, the amount will go upto to Rs. 1,25,000 crores over the seven year period.

JNNURM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

• Guidelines (pdf)
  
• Brochure (pdf)
  
• Toolkit
  
• Checklist for Reforms
  
• Contact persons in the Ministry of Urban Development
  
• Contact persons in the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (pdf)
  
• Community Participation Law (Nagara Raj Bill) (pdf)
  
• Model Disclosure Law (Model Municipality Disclosure Bill) (pdf)

CITY STATUS UNDER JNNURM

• JNNURM MIS  (login and password are ‘guest’)

IMPORTANT LINKS

• JNNURM MoAs
  
• Official government site on JNNURM
  
• Latest government updates on JNNURM
  
• Ministry of Urban Development
  
• Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
  
• JNNURM (Delhi) – Department of Urban Development (Govt. of NCT of Delhi)
  
• National Institute of Urban Affairs
  
• Karmayog
  
• IL & FS

CCS’ ROLE IN JNNURM

Civil society organisation, residential welfare associations and citizens have the important task of monitoring the implementation of the promises made by the state governments. Wastage of funds as well as skipping of reforms has to be avoided at all costs. CCS is the nodal body for civil society organisation in Delhi for implementation of JNNURM in the city.

CCS agrees with the reforms mandated under JNNURM. It sees its role in the mission as follows:

1. Participating in the making of the city development plan for Delhi and the plans for the various projects in the city.
   
2. Coordinating with other like-minded civil society organisations to monitoring the implementation in Delhi.
   
3. Spreading awareness of the reforms through publications.
   
4. Assisting officials from Delhi and outside in carrying out the reforms.
   
5. Monitoring JNNURM reforms in selected cities.

CCS’ letter to the Delhi Government requesting it to form the Delhi Technical Advisory Group (pdf)

CCS ACTIVITIES UNDER JNNURM

1. CCS has held several meetings with Delhi civil society organisations to discuss JNNURM
   
2. CCS has brought out a series on important reforms under JNNURM
   
3. CCS has commented on the model legislations recommended on the central government

DETAILS OF THE MEETINGS OF DELHI CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

Minutes of Meetings

• 25^th May 2006 (pdf)
  
• 13^th July 2006 (pdf)
  
• 27^th July 2006 (pdf)
  
• Hazards Centre’s meeting (pdf) on 1^st August 2006
  
• 27^th November 2006 (pdf)

JNNURM DELHI YAHOO! GROUP

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jnnurmdelhi/

To join this Yahoo! Group please visit above website or sent a mail to Makarand (makarand@ccs.in) with brief information about your work. 

LATEST NEWS ON JNNURM

• NewsRack
  
• Google News
  
• Blog Search

JNNURM ARTICLES IN THE MEDIA

• Urban voices not being heard (Ramesh Ramanathan, 11-3-05)
  
• For the people, by diktat (Vinay Baindur, India Together, 5-9-05)
  
• NURM: Hope for cities (Project Monitor, 5-12-05)
  
• Missionary zeal (S V Suresh Babu, Down To Earth, 31-1-06)
  
• Wither Urban Renewal? (pdf) (Partha Mukhopadhyay, Economic and Political Weekly, 11-3-06)
  
• Desirable outcomes (The Financial Express, 7-4-06)
  
• Mission not accomplish-able (Kathyayini Chamaraj, India Together, 29-7-06)
  
• Our best hope for urban India (Ramesh Ramanathan, India Together, 29-7-06)
  
• NURM and the Poor in Globalising Mega Cities (pdf) (Darshini Mahadevia, Economic and Political Weekly, 5-8-06)
  
• India's urban renewal plan goes wrong (Down To Earth, 31-8-06)
  
• 52 cities submit development plans (M.C. Vaijayanthi, Project Monitor, 20-11-06)
  
• Urban Renewal: At Whose Cost? (pdf) (Medha Patkar, Simpreet Singh, Economic and Political Weekly, 17-3-2007)
  
• The Invisible Cities (Nandan Nilekani, Outlook, 9-4-2007) (subscription required)
  
• Where are the Urban Planners (Swati Ramanathan, May 2007)
  
• Bharat Nirman behind by 2 years (Mint, 6-6-07)
  
• Om Prakash Mathur: Moving forward with the JNNURM reforms (Business Standard, 14-6-07)
  
• City Lights (Indian Express, 2-7-2007)
  
• Save our cities (Financial Express, 7-7-07)
  
• Civic body scraps public participation in urban development decision-making (Indian Express, 13-7-07)
  
• Is 'betterment levy' a good idea? (pdf) (Shreekant Gupta, Kunal Banerjee, Economic Times, 15-6-07)
  
• The woes of metros (Pankaj Sharma, Project Monitor, 23-7-07)
  
• Govt looking at rental housing (Q&A/ M P Vasimalai, Business Standard, 27-7-07)

OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING ON JNNURM

• Janaagraha (Bangalore)
  
• CAG (Chennai)

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CCS’ WORK ON JNNURM PLEASE CONTACT:

Makarand Bakore
Sr. Research Associate
Centre for Civil Society
Tel: 9312444725, 26537456/26521882
Email: makarand@ccs.in