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- Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission is a massive city modernisation scheme launched by the Government of India under Ministry of Urban Development.
- The scheme was officially inaugurated by the prime minister, Manmohan Singh on 3 December 2005 as a programme meant to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in the cities.
- JNNURM aims at creating ‘economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive Cities’ by a strategy of upgrading the social and economic infrastructure in cities, provision of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) and wide-ranging urban sector reforms to strengthen municipal governance in accordance with the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992.
- However it was also estimated that 70% of India’s population lies in rural areas. However urban India is fast growing but sometimes in unplanned ways. India is benchmarked to be the next superpower.
- As per the information in the JNNURM mission brochure as launched by the Authorities, cities and towns account for 30 percent of the country’s population, contributing 50 – 55 % of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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- JNNURM essentially functions incorporating primarily two sub-missions into its program. The two sub-missions are:
- the Sub-Mission for Urban Infrastructure and Governance administered by the Ministry of Urban Development, with a focus on water supply and sanitation, solid waste management, road network, urban transport and redevelopment of old city areas.
- the Sub-Mission for Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) administered by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation with a focus on integrated development of slums.
- The duration of the Mission is of a period of six years beginning from December 2005-06 up to end 2011.An evaluation of the experience of implementation of the Mission would be undertaken before the commencement of Eleventh Five Year Plan
