Municipal Commissioners' workshop to discuss urban issues

NEW DELHI: As part of its sensitisation exercise on introducing new initiatives in urban areas, the Urban Development Ministry will hold a day-long workshop with municipal commissioners from nine northern states here tomorrow.

Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister M Venkaiah Naidu will share the government's concerns about the state of urban governance in these states and implementation issues at the "Consultative Workshop on Urban Governance".

Municipal Commissioners of about 130 cities and towns with over one lakh population each from Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan will participate in the day-long deliberations on effective implementation of new initiatives in the urban sector, according to a release.

Senior officials from the Ministries of Urban Development and HUPA will make detailed presentations to the Commissioners on the broad objectives, methodologies, financial and institutional arrangements in respect of development of 500 cities, Swachh Bharat Mission, Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, Housing for All, Capacity Building and E-governance.

Lessons learned from the implementation of JNNURM and improvisations to be made for effective implementation of new initiatives would be discussed in detail.

Case studies in respect of Revision of City Development Plan of Shimla, property tax collection in Nagpur and strategy for reduction of non-water revenue in Haridwar, besides sanitation rating of cities and cyber security will also be discussed.