Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launching three ambitious schemes, 100 smart cities, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and housing for all. The schemes are aimed at developing cities and towns. While the Smart City and AMRUT projects will draw Rs 48,000 crore and and Rs 50,000 crore, respectively, in central grants over five years, Housing-for-All by 2022 will see the government spend about Rs 3 lakh crore in the next seven years.
PM Modi will unveil the criteria and guidelines for the smart cities and other schemes and it will be followed by a two-day workshop in which over 1000 mayors, municipal heads, ministers concerned from states and their chief secretaries will take part. Representatives of embassies, which have shown interest for their countries' participation in these projects, will also take part in the workshop. Smart cities project will be based on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model and neither the Centre not states will have any discretion in choosing 100 cities through a competition for smart cities scheme.
500 cities having 1 lakh and more population will be chosen for AMRUT project. Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said that these 500 cities will become engines of growth and they in turn should develop into smart cities.
PM will also unveil the logo of the housing mission, under the housing scheme, interest subsidy of 6.5 per cent on housing loans with tenure up to 15 years will be provided to EWS and low income groups, giving them a benefit of about Rs 2.3 lakh each.
The operational guidelines for each of the three projects - which lay the ground rules and framework for implementation -- were framed after extensive, almost year-long consultations with states, Union Territories and urban local bodies.
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