Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Sardar Patel emerge as the new icon for government schemes. Modi-led government is winding up schemes, like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) or Rajiv Awas Yojana. Now, the urban schemes will be launched in the names of Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birthday (December 25) and Sardar Patel whose birth anniversary falls on October 31.
The JnNRUM scheme effectively ended in March this year, when the Congress government was in power. However, the housing schemes under the plan were to be completed by March 2015. Instead of extending the term of the program, or renaming it as phase II, the BJP government has now decided to repackage these schemes. All the housing schemes under the Urban development ministry and Ministry of urban poverty alleviation are now being brought under one umbrella. The housing schemes named after Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi will now come under Sardar Patel mission. "The scheme named after Jawaharlal Nehru got over in the UPA government term itself. Rajiv Awas Yojana is also being clubbed in the new housing scheme. Bringing the schemes together is to improve the efficiency of the program," said a senior officer of the ministry. The government will launch the schemes on October 31.
While the guidelines of the scheme is yet to be drawn, the scheme will provide low cost housing to urban poor. To discourage mushrooming of slums in the urban areas, the scheme will also provide rental accommodation to the migrants.
The ministry plans to build 30 million houses for the urban poor by 2020. The project is estimated to cost Rs 22.5 lakh crores. The centre government will do an initial funding of the schemes, after which the states will have to pool in their resources.
While the housing aspect of JnNRUM have gone to Sardar Patel, the urban infrastructure aspect of the scheme will be named after Atal Bihari Vajpaiee. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee scheme of Urban Infrastructure Renewal will be launched on December 25, the birthday of former Prime Minister. The cities infrastructure, transport and sanitation aspects covered under JnNRUM will be covered in this new scheme.
The ministry claims of having picked up all the positive aspects of the old mission. "The old and existing schemes have enabled us to identify where all we lack and what is the scope of improvement," added the officer.
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