JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA

City Development Plan for Agra City in the state of Uttar Pradesh under JNNURM
Keeping in view the project objectives, the scope of work could be segregated into four parts.
Part -1 deals with city assessment & data analysis of the infrastructure/ services,
demography, slum population, Governance & Management and city finance & resources.
Part-2 deals with formulation of vision after conducting the SWOT analysis. The stakeholder’s
consultations, workshop is an important component of this stage. Part-3 deals with the
development strategy and identification of priority actions, consensus building around a
common understanding of the city’s problems and priorities. The identified strategies will be
prioritized and the projects will be identified for Agra city. The projects identified for Agra will
be for the various sectors- urban renewal, infrastructure, slum improvement, environmental
services, transport and road services etc. there will be regular consultations with the various
stakeholders for finalization of the identified projects. Part-4, deals with identification of
feasible option in terms of its technical and financial and deals with methods to translate
financial inputs to developmental outputs in the form of budgeting and its implementation.
1.8 CONSULTATION PROCESS
Stakeholders Consultation is being an integral part of this project. These consultations were
undertaken on regular basis with the underlying premise to sensitize the local populace about
the project and cull out information (issues, opinion, needs and aspirations) from various
strata of the society related to formularizing the city development plan for Agra. The
stakeholders identified were:
Primary stakeholders are the project beneficiaries. The beneficiaries included local
population of the project area including the urban poor group, Citizen Group, RWA’s, traders’
associations, civil society organizations, citizen organizations etc.
Secondary stakeholders will include the government, line ministry and project staff,
implementing agencies, local governments, civil society organizations, private sector firms
and other development agencies. The officials of Agra Nagar Nigam, development agencies
such as Agra Development Authority (ADA) line departments such as DUDA, U.P. Jal Nigam,
Transport Authority, Tourism and ASI etc will be the stakeholders to be consulted.
The consultation process has been taken place at two levels:
Consultation with primary and secondary stakeholders
Stakeholder workshops
Stakeholders were involved through formal and informal discussions and focus group
discussions. The main aim of the consultations was :
To assess the issues, potentials of the city
Levels of urban services/infrastructure
Areas, which need immediate improvement etc.
Formulation of city vision
Identification of development strategies
Decision-making processes in terms of project identification
Prioritization of projects
1.9 PROJECT FOCUS AND BENEFITS
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