JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA

City Development Plan for Agra City in the state of Uttar Pradesh under JNNURM
It presents the current stage of the city’s development and sets out the directions of change.
It also identifies the thrust areas, suggests alternative strategies and interventions for
bringing about the change and also
provides a framework projects need to
be identified and implemented on
priority basis. It establishes a logical
and consistent framework for evaluation
of investment decisions.
The principle of CDP is to develop a
sustainable city with quality life &
infrastructure stock, improved economic
environment and competitiveness of
Agra city in terms of specific areas of
industry & services sector with efficient
& transparent city management.
1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The following objectives have been framed to achieve the goal of City Development Plan:
To identify the challenges of the city
To prepare a perspective and set Vision for the future development of the city
To focus on the development of economic and social infrastructure
To suggest policies and programmes that specifically address the issues of urban poor.
To assist the State government to undertake urban sector reforms, which will facilitate
flow of investments into city based infrastructure.
To strengthen the municipal governments their financial management and accounting
processes, thereby promoting transparency in their functioning etc.
1.6 SCOPE OF WORK
Efficient &
transparent city
management
The City Development Plan for Agra sets out the spatial framework for the city within the
context of the JNNURM. Under the JNNURM scheme, cities have to achieve;
• Access to minimum level of services
• Framework for planning and execution of action programme
• Double entry accounting, budgeting and financial management
• Transparency and Governance
The above foremost tasks to achieve and translate it to developmental outputs in the form of
projects, programme and implementation process which intend to cover the following;
• Formulate a term based action programmes
• Identify and prepare project proposals in accordance with JNNURM Guidelines
• Draw up a timeline for implementing the urban sector reforms.
• Improving and augmenting the economic and social infrastructure
• Ensuring basic services
• Initiating wide-ranging urban sector reforms whose primary aim is to eliminate legal,
Institutional and financial constraints that have impeded investment in urban
infrastructure and services; and
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Quality life &
infrastructure stock
Components of a SUSTAINABLE CITY
Competitiveness
Improved
economic
environment