State to submit AMRUT plan to Centre soon

SHILLONG: Unlike Mizoram, Meghalaya has so far not been selected under the AMRUT Action Plans for water supply and sewerage connections for 81 cities which has been approved with a total project outlay of Rs.5,748 crore, but the State government is on the job to complete the action plan report to be submitted to the Centre.
State government sources said that the annual action plan for the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) has been prepared by the State government and it will be presented before the High Powered Committee headed by the chief secretary.
Once the HPC approves it then it will be sent to the Centre,” the sources said, adding that the proposal is likely to be submitted to the Centre within this month.
Meghalaya is likely to get an allocation of Rs.40 crore in the first year.
It may be mentioned that the Central Government has approved the action plan for 81 cities in Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Mizoram        with a total project outlay of Rs.5,748 crore to improve water supply and sewerage network infrastructure under AMRUT action plans for the year 2015-16.
A PIB report said that an inter-ministerial Apex Committee headed by Madhusudan Prasad, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, has approved the State Annual Action Plans of these five states which account for 81 mission cities. Central assistance will be provided to an extent of Rs.2,440 crore while the rest would be contributed by state governments and urban local bodies.
State Annual Action Plans (SAAP) of each state is formulated by integrating Service Level Improvement Plans (SLIP) of each AMRUT city in respective state. SLIP of each mission city is evolved after a detailed analysis of gaps in basic infrastructure.