Year - 2014 - 2016
Client - Ministry of Urban Development(MoUD)
India began the transformation from a closed economy to an open, market-based economy in the early 1990's by taking steps towards economic liberalisation, decentralisation, good governance and improved infrastructure. This change in approach emphasised the important role of cities in India's future economic development. Cities contribute about 50-55 percent to the country's GDP. In order to address challenges faced by growth engines of Indian economy, the Government of India launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) under the aegis of Ministry of Urban Development in December 2005 to create economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive cities and towns.
The mission aimed to improve urban management supported states and cities in carrying out a number of functions ranging from planning, project development, monitoring and evaluation including implementation of reform agenda. This reform-linked funding from the Government of India represented a culmination of two decades of experimentation with various development models in the country. JnNURM's multi-pronged approach covered governance-oriented reforms and city-wide project funding for 63 cities across the Country.
In order to operationalise the mission activities, JnNURM Mission Directorate, appointed us as a Project Management Unit (PMU) to provide cutting-edge technical assistance and capacity building support to India's central, state, and local governments in the creation of an enabling environment in which state and local governments are empowered to plan, implement, and manage urban infrastructure projects to improve the delivery of urban services with an emphasis on the poor. Some of the key areas of support include :
The technical assistance relied on a three-pronged approach: (1) Working with local, state and central governments for grounding policy interventions at local level; (2) Strengthening consultative, participatory process to not only to achieve project milestones in a timely manner but also to align reforms with project outcomes; and (3)Providing hand holding support to the national, State and City governments.
This support not only strengthened and institutionalised the overall implementation process of policy intervention, but clearly established the need for appropriately designed handhold and technical assistance for operationalising policy interventions and managing envisaged outcomes of centrally driven missions and programmes.
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