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POLICY REVIEW

expenditure at around 22 irregular and insufficient. creating a clean and healthy
percent, as compared to the 42 Many cities fail to prevent the urban India.
percent as envisaged in the BE wastage of 35 percent to 60 TOWARDS NEW INDIA'S
for the same, thereby percent of the water meant for URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE –
highlighting the effect of the ordinary citizens due to Public Transport
pandemic- especially on malpractices by the citizens Augmentation of transport
infrastructure projects. themselves and poor infrastructure of the cities in the
management of water
FOCUS MISSIONS: Jal Jeevan, form of investment in metro rails
infrastructure. The la er can be
Swachh Bharat and buses in the largest cities of
a ributed to institutional
Given the importance of water fragmentation with regards to the country such as Chennai,
Bengaluru and Nagpur is an
supply and sanitation in making policymaking, financing and
important hallmark of this year's
healthier cities, increased regulation of urban water
budget. The total BE outlay
budgetary provisions under the supply. Therefore, be er
under the Mass Rapid Transit
second phase of the Swachh management of water supply
System (MRTS) and Metro
Bharat Mission (SBM 2.0), Jal through decentralized
Jeevan Mission (Urban) (JJM-U), institutional and tariff Projects head for the FY 2021-22
and for controlling air pollution rationalization, the schemes like stood at Rs.23,500 crore of which
in 42 big cities having a JJM-U and SBM 2.0 would Rs.23,282 crore was on the
capital expenditure; there was a
population of more than one ensure sustainable and equitable
17.5 percent rise in BE outlay for
million are praiseworthy. The water supply with specified
FY 2021-22 as compared to FY
JJM-U, with a budgetary quality standards and service
2020-21. It should also be noted
provision of Rs.2,87,000 crore for level benchmarking.
five years, plans to provide 2.87 that for FY 202-21 the MRTS and
With an outlay of Rs.1,41,000 Metro Projects had BE outlay of
crore tap-water connections in
crore for five years, the SBM 2.0, Rs.20,000 crore and the RE was
4,378 statutory towns and liquid
aims to achieve multiple Rs.9,000 crore, demonstrating
waste management in 500 Atal
objectives. These include: the impact of the pandemic.
Mission for Rejuvenation and complete faecal sludge
Urban Transformation management and wastewater An amount of Rs. 18,000 crore
(AMRUT) cities. has been allocated for urban bus
treatment, source segregation of
Investment requirements of garbage, reduction in single-use transport to include 20,000
additional buses in the city
urban water supply do not plastic, managing waste from
transport system. 'Innovative'
match the available source of construction and demolition
Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
funding and historically, all such activities, and bioremediation of
model is envisaged to enable
funding, projects and the garbage dump sites. The BE
private sector players to enter
institutions responsible for water outlay for SBM for the FY 2021-
the domain of bus services in the
have tended to focus on the 22 was Rs.2,300 crore, the same
creation of infrastructure (Water as that of FY 2020-21. The RE for cities. Expansion of metro rail
Aid, 2018). Universal access to FY 2020-21 for SBM was Rs. network has also been
emphasized with the provision
water remains an issue in urban 1,000 crore. Undoubtedly, the
of counterpart funding for the
India as the advantage of the SBM 2.0 needs the
mere availability of water implementation push and a extension of the metro rail
networks of Kochi (Rs. 1,957
infrastructure is subdued either commi ed approach.
by a lack of access to the public Essentially, the successes of SBM crore), Chennai (Rs. 63,246
piped water supply or by water 1.0 with strong leadership have crore), Bengaluru (Rs. 14,788
supply being of poor quality, to be emulated again towards crore), Nagpur (59,575 crore),

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