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IMC preparing Rs 25 cr DPR for slums
AFTER REPEATEDLY putting it on the backburner, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is finally moving to provide basic civic amenities in slums areas.
AFTER REPEATEDLY putting it on the backburner, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is finally moving to provide basic civic amenities in slums areas.
The Corporation is in the process of preparing an Rs 15-crore detailed project report (DPR) for developing five (gandee basti) slum settlements - one in each Assembly segment of the City.
Water supply, sewage, drainage and road laying works will be carried out under the slum improvement programme for which the IMC hopes to get Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) funding.
In fact, civic body officials are trying hard to ready the DPR by the weekend so that it can be submitted to the State Government in time for the next meeting of the Mission’s steering committee.
If approved, the Corporation will have to shell out 30 per cent, or Rs 4.5 crore, of the total project amount with the State and Central governments picking up 20 and 50 per cent of the tab respectively. Mayor Dr Uma Shashi Sharma, Municipal Commissioner Vinod Sharma and Mayor-in-Council members Rajendra Rathore and Munnalal Yadav undertook a tour of slums to be included in the project last week.
After visiting the sites the Mayor is reported to have given a go-ahead to the proposal. Although the civic body is flush with funds for alleviating slum conditions, it has, so far, displayed a mysterious reluctance to use the money.
Over Rs 50 crore has been allocated for community area development schemes in urban slum settlements by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as part of its Urban Water Supply and Environment Improvement Project (USWEIP).
The Rs 2,750 crore City Development plan (CDP) submitted for JNNURM funding also allocates a hefty chunk for providing sanitation, sewage and drainage in impoverished settlements.
And an additional Rs 50 crore is in the pipeline from Department for International Development to the same end. To say nothing of the crores of rupees released by the State Government for slum networking and urban improvement each year.
