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Objectives

The Government of India launched the JNNURM on 3^rd December 2005. The mission aims to create ‘economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive cities’. The main thrust of the mission is to:

• Improve and augment the economic and social infrastructure of cities

• Ensure basic services to the urban poor including security of tenure at affordable prices

• Initiate wide-ranging urban sector reforms to eliminate legal, institutional and financial constraints that have impeded investment in urban infrastructure and services

• Strengthen municipal governments and their functioning in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution (seventy-fourth) Amendment Act, 1992.