Government Schemes Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNURM) JNNURM - Increase by 87% to Rs. 12,887 Cr. The scheme was launched to give focus attention to integrated development of urban infrastructure and services in identified cities. The objectives of this mission are focussed attention to integrated services in cities covered under the mission and the establishment of linkages between asset-creation and asset-management through various reforms. It aims to ensure adequate funds to meet the deficiencies in urban infrastructural services and planned development of identified cities including pre urban areas, outgrowths and urban corridors leading to dispersed urbanization. It further aims to provide basic services to the urban poor including security of tenure at affordable prices, improved housing, water supply and sanitation, and ensuring delivery of other existing universal services for education, health and social security. The duration of this mission is to be 7 years beginning from 2005-2006. Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns(UIDSSMT) Urban infrastructure Development Scheme for Small & Medium Towns aims at improvement in urban infrastructure in towns and cities in a planned manner. It shall subsume the existing schemes of Integrated Development of Small and Medium Towns (IDSMT) and Accelerated Urban Water Supply Programme (AUWSP). The objectives of the scheme are to: Improve infrastructural facilities and help create durable public assets and quality oriented services in cities & towns Enhance public-private-partnership in infrastructural development and promote planned integrated development for towns and cities Integrated Development of Small and Medium Towns The centrally sponsored scheme of IDSMT was initiated in the year 1979-80. Investment in development of small urban centres would help in reducing migration to large cities and support the growth of small rural areas as well. The chief objectives of IDSMT are: Improving infrastructural facilities and helping in the creation of durable public assets in small and medium towns. Decentralizing economic growth and employment opportunities and promoting dispersed urbanization. Increasing the availability of serviced sites for housing, commercial and industrial use. Integrating spatial and socio-economic planning as envisaged in the Constitution (74th Amendment) Act, 1992 Promoting resource generating schemes for urban local bodies to improve their overall financial position. Accelerated Urban Water Supply Programme (AUWSP) External Aided Water Supply & Sanitation Projects Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Solid Waste Management & Drainage National Urban Transport Policy House Building Advance to Central Government Employees Rajiv Awas Yojna, new scheme launched by the President of India- intended to make the country slum free in the next 5 years. Budget allocated for housing and provision of basic amenities for the urban poor—increased to Rs. 3973 cr Government Organs Ministry of Urban Development