Project categories :

For Mission Cities
UIG- Urban Infrastructure & Governance System
BSUP - Basic Services to the Urban Poor

For Non Mission Towns
UIDSSMT - Urban Infrastructure Development for Small and Medium Small
IHSDP - Integrated Housing for Slum Development Programme

The Government of India has made a budgetary provision of Rs.50,000 Crore over a period of 7 years involving 63 cities of India, of which 4 are mega cities, in realization of the gigantic tasks involved in implementation of JNNURM,. In West Bengal, two cities viz. Kolkata i.e. Kolkata Metropolitan Area that encompasses 41 ULBS including 3 municipal corporations and Asansol  Urban Area that have 5 ULBs including 2 municipal corporations. Other 80 ULBs known as non mission cities will have progrmmes of IHSDP & UIDSSMT.

In consideration of the fact that the responses of the city governments are not in conformity with the country's socio economic objectives and also India's growing role in the world economy, the Government of India has decided to launch the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

This programme aims at creating economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive cities, with focus on

The Mission endeavours to enable cities to create appropriate framework including incentives and support for implementation of urban reforms at both the State and city levels, to enhance credit worthiness of municipal governments and to integrate the poor with service delivery systems.

It would be worthwhile to note that there are two Sub Missions under JNNURM. Sub Mission-I, titled Urban Infrastructure and Governance, would deal with up-gradation/renewal of basic infrastructure in the selected cities and towns and implementation of various reforms pertaining to improved municipal governance including sustenance of development initiatives.

The Sub Mission-ll, styled as Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP), is addressed exclusively to urban poor living in slum/squatter settlements in cities and towns. This component would focus on improvement of living conditions of the urban poor by way of providing housing along with infrastructure, with a view to gradually removing slums/squatter settlements from cities and also providing security of tenure to the urban poor.

The sectors and projects eligible for assistance under JNNURM Sub Mission-I, i.e. Urban Infrastructure & Governance, include water supply, sanitation & sewerage, solid waste management, drainage, urban transport, heritage conservation, urban renewal and the like. Essentially, the programme focuses on up-gradation of basic infrastructure and services.

While the pace of urbanization has been on the rise with the size of absolute urban population increasing year after another, leading to increased demand for urban infrastructure and services, the shortage of resources of the municipal governments became too acute, notwithstanding invocation of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992. Most municipalities are starved of resources on account of their inability to effectively use their revenue raising power, particularly relating to property.