Establishing Centres of Excellence to promote various facets of urban development and management will go a long way in improving financial management of urban local bodies, efficiency in service delivery, effective planning process, citizen interface and public participation, transparency and accountability.This was stated by Union Minister for Urban Development S Jaipal Reddy while inaugurating a...
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Centre has identified lacunaein the functioning of urban bodies across the country due tolack of skilled personnel and has sought promotion ofdifferent capacity-building activities.The Urban Development Ministry has identified lack ofpersonnel with appropriate skills and inadequate skill ofpersonnel already deployed as a hindrance to urban management.It has also found that lack of appropriate institutionalframework...
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Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry on Thursday comprehensively revamped the Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) with a view to providing gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed.The SJSRY which was launched in 1997 has five major components of Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP), Urban Women Self-help Programme (UWSP) Skill Training for Employment Promotion...
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Union Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry on Thursday comprehensively revamped the Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) with a view to providing gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed.The SJSRY which was launched in 1997 has five major components of Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP), Urban Women Self-help Programme (UWSP) Skill Training for Employment Promotion...
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The long-awaited Urban Development Draft Policy-2009, the first by the State Department of Urban Development was released by Minister for Urban Development and Law S. Suresh Kumar here on Friday.Mr. Kumar and Adviser to the Chief Minister on Urban Affairs A. Ravindra, who explained the salient features of the draft policy to the presspersons sought suggestions and objections to it by experts, NGOs...
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towns growing intocities, and cities morphing into metros, the proposed urban development policyseeks to abolish urban development authorities and transfer their functions tourban local bodies. These humungous bodies will be in complete charge of thecity.That should signal an end to the Mysore Urban DevelopmentAuthority, the Hubli-Dharwad Urban Development Authority and other similarbodies working...
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for Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy and Minister for Transport R. Ashok launching a new set of 380 buses of the BMTC on Saturday.BANGALORE: Union Ministry of Urban Development will be providing 15,260 buses across 61 cities under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).Flagging off 380 out of the 1,000 buses sanctioned to Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), Union...
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Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy Monday said the country is not prepared for the urban explosion that many towns and cities are seeing at the moment.Urban development, not just in terms of infrastructure but also capacity building of people is, therefore, what is urgently required to meet the challenges, he said."We are not prepared for urban explosion and, therefore, there is a huge need...
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and Parliamentary Affairs Minister S. Suresh Kumar and A. Ravindra releasing the Urban Development Draft Policy 2009 in Bangalore on Friday.BANGALORE: The long-awaited Urban Development Draft Policy-2009, the first by the State Department of Urban Development was released by Minister for Urban Development and Law S. Suresh Kumar here on Friday.Mr. Kumar and Adviser to the Chief Minister on Urban Affairs...
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Expressing his concern over meagre central allocation of Rs 181.79 crore for 101 urban local bodies in Orissa, chief minister Naveen Patnaik today urged the Centre to enhance the amount to at least Rs 1,000 crore.The demand was made during his meeting with the Union urban development minister, S. Jaipal Reddy, in New Delhi.During discussion on various issues relating to urban development in the state,...
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