A.1. STREET VENDORS ACT
Objective | Intended beneficiary | Salient features |
• Focus on the primary issues pertaining to urban poverty such as imparting skill training, enabling entrepreneurship develop, providing wage employment and self-employment opportunities to the urban poor. • Providing shelter equipped with essential services in phased manner to urban poor including urban homeless • Addressing the livelihood concerns of urban poor including urban homeless.
| • Urban poor o Street Vendors o Slum dwellers o Homeless o Rag pickers • Unemployed • Differently abled
| • It replaces the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana • NULM is now renamed as Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana • Organizing urban poor in Self Help Groups (SHGs) • Creating opportunities for skill development for urban poor leading to market based employment • Helping urban poor to set up self-employment ventures by ensuring easy access to credit. • All the states and union territories have been empowered to implement day-NULM in all the remaining 3,250 statutory urban local bodies even if they have a population of less than one lakhs each
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A.2. PRADHAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA (PMAY)
PMAY & PMAY (Gramin) are launched to achieve à Housing for All by 2022 Mission | ||
Objective | Intended beneficiary | Salient features |
• Construct two crore houses across the nation. • Covers the entire urban area consisting of 4041 statutory towns with initial focus on 500 Class I cities
| • Poor people (BPL) and • People living under EWS and LIG categories in urban establishments of the country.
| • Ownership of houses will be in the name of woman or jointly with husband • Flexibility to States for choosing best options to meet the demand of housing in their states • Central grant of Rs. one lakhs per house, on an average, will be available under the slum rehabilitation programme • Implemented in three phases as follows, viz. a. Phase-I (April 2015 - March 2017) to cover 100 Cities to be selected from States/UTs as per their willingness; b. Phase - II (April 2017 - March 2019) to cover additional 200 Cities and c. Phase-III (April 2019 - March 2022) to cover all other remaining Cities.
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A.3. NATIONAL URBAN LIVELIHOODS MISSION
Objective | Intended beneficiary | Salient features |
• Focus on the primary issues pertaining to urban poverty such as imparting skill training, enabling entrepreneurship develop, providing wage employment and self-employment opportunities to the urban poor. • Providing shelter equipped with essential services in phased manner to urban poor including urban homeless • Addressing the livelihood concerns of urban poor including urban homeless.
| • Urban poor o Street Vendors o Slum dwellers o Homeless o Rag pickers • Unemployed • Differently abled
| • It replaces the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana • NULM is now renamed as Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana • Organizing urban poor in Self Help Groups (SHGs) • Creating opportunities for skill development for urban poor leading to market based employment • Helping urban poor to set up self-employment ventures by ensuring easy access to credit. • All the states and union territories have been empowered to implement day-NULM in all the remaining 3,250 statutory urban local bodies even if they have a population of less than one lakhs each
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A.4. SMART CITIES
Ministry of Urban Development
Objective | Intended beneficiary | Salient features |
• To drive economic growth • To create sites of o Production o Efficiency o Consumption o Sustainable living spaces(Waste management etc.,) • Remove regional disparities • Promoting mixed land use in area based developments • Housing and inclusiveness
| • Urban population(for improved civic amenities, participation) • ULBs • Urban Governance • Urban planners due to holistic planning
| • Current plan is to select 20 cities this year followed by 40 each in the next two years. States are asked to nominate names of cities for a ‘City Challenge Competition’ and the chosen ones will get Central fund of Rs 100 crore each year for 5 years. • Smart city plans will be implemented by a special purpose vehicle States/UTs and Urban local bodies will have 50:50 equity in SPV. • Area-based development • Basic services provided:
i. adequate water supply, ii. Assured electricity supply, iii. sanitation, including solid waste management • Replicability and Scalability of model smart cities. • Localized and moulded for specific needs: Developed along DMIC for boosting employment, manufacturing sector; a GIFT city for financial services etc., Kochi Smart city – IT city; • Sustainability: Renewable energy; Efficient and intelligent transportation for ex: Janmarg by Ahmedabad Municipality and GJ govt.
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3. What is the objective of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme? |
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