Maha CM urges Centre to remove bottlenecks in JNNURM

Mumbai: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday urged the Centre to resolve issues regarding the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission even as he hoped to complete the pending projects that were initiated under JNNURM.
“As of now, JNNURM is over but there are many issues related to the scheme which the Central govern-ment needs to address. Because I feel the projects undertaken under the mission cannot be left like that. We need to complete them,” Fadnavis said.
TheCM was speaking at Consultative Workshop on Urban Governance organi-sed here by the Central government and was also attended by Union Urban Development minister Venkaiah Naidu. Fadnavis said the state has always been in the forefront for urban governance and wan-ts to bring in more reforms to make cities more sustai-nable, livable and smarter.
“Even while having projects under the JNN-URM in our bouquet, we could push the reforms . Although a lot needs to be done, I feel a number of reforms have already been implemented by various agencies. But, we want to do more.Being a highly urban-ised state, we look forward for greater cooperation from the Centre,” he said.(PTI)