CDP link - JnNURM

Preparation of City development Plan (CDP) for Meerut
in the state of Uttar Pradesh under JNNURM
City Development Plan
Final Report
Mission (JNNURM). Meerut is one of the city selected under JNNURM being a city with
more than a million population.
M/s BCEOM India has been appointed to prepare the city development plan (CDP) for
Meerut. The proposed City Development Plan (CDP) attempts to address these
deficiencies and deficits, potentials and promises. The CDP takes a holistic view of the
city’s past and present, in context of social, physical, infrastructural and economic
environment. This Report presents the City Development Plan (CDP) for the Meerut city.
1.2. Need of the Study
In order to sustain the high economic growth and ensuring an overall balanced
development in different regions of the country keeping in view the interrelatedness of the
economic activities in urban areas and quality of urban infrastructure Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), has been conceived and has reached an
advanced stage of execution. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
(JNNURM) has thus been a national level initiative that enables both the State
Governments and ULBs towards providing investment support in the sectors of urban
infrastructure as well as urban reforms. Meerut city has been one of the 63 cities
identified under this mission for the preparation of CDP.
The first Master Plan (1971-91) for the Meerut city which got expired in 1996, failed to
achieve a balanced growth and solve the current and satisfy the future needs of the city.
It is evident that availability of quality urban infrastructure services - both physical and
social is posing a serious bottleneck in achieving and exploiting the true potential of
Meerut city. Owing to its significance, contribution and potential role in the time to come,
Meerut therefore has been selected as one of the cities under JNNURM in the phase one.
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