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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:26:50 +0530
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Ministry of Urban Development
NATIONAL URBAN SANITATION POLICY SOON - RAJAMANI
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14:37 IST
The Government is to bring out National Urban Sanitation Policy soon.
The Joint Secretary, Urban Development Ministry, Shri M. Rajamani said
this while addressing the non governmental organizations on the occasion
of World Water Day in New Delhi today. He said that the Policy, which is
under preparation, aims at bringing out qualitative change in the
sanitation situation and health of the people in urban areas. He said
that the government has given top priority to projects like water and
sanitation, sewerage, solid waste management, storm water drainage in
the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission to bring about
positive change in the living standards of people. Shri Rajamani, who is
also in-charge of the Directorate of the JNNURM, stated that in five
years there would be a turn around in the look of the mission cities. He
said the progress in the implementation of renewal mission has been very
good so far. Our cities should compete to attract investments from
multinationals and this could take place only if we have cleaner cities
with urban infrastructure of international standard.
He stated that the Government is in the process of setting up Community
Participation Fund to enlist support and wider participation of people
in the implementation of urban infrastructure development projects.
Shri Rajamani urged the non-governmental organizations to do their bit
to bring out improvement in the living standard of the poor and
disadvantaged sections. He said sanitation is one of most important
inventions in the human history, which impacts the life of the people.
Shri Rajamani stated that the scale and pace of operations in this field
have to be increased to bring about radical change faster. In this
context, the Joint Secretary mentioned the example of Kerala, which has
anti poverty sub plans in the budget of the Urban Local Bodies.
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