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stay close to their workplaces, within 500 m. of their homes, the required low carbon
while also preserving their while peripheral areas and and green technologies
social and personal support neighbourhoods away from needed for implementing
networks. major roads have limited or the proposed projects/
no access to it. In the absence developments . LCCMP will
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The mixed-use, mixed income of organized public transport, facilitate affordable, efficient,
housing envisioned as part of
the urban retrofitting strategy the city is dependent on and accessible mobility
provides an opportunity personal motor vehicles systems which could support
for equitable amenities for and shared auto-rickshaws. more women to travel. The
all. In-situ infrastructure During 2015-16, emissions involvement of more women
improvements can address from the city’s transportation and gender minorities in the
the deprivation faced by sector stood at 2,78,489 Mt transportation sector could
vulnerable communities. CO2-eq, which constituted create safer mobility systems
This intervention could 24.8 per cent of the city’s total This would improve the WPR
significantly benefit the time emissions. of women in Guntur.
poverty faced by women and The last comprehensive WATER SUPPLY
children. Accessible amenities mobility plan for the city was
could reduce additional Urban areas have recently
time spent on travel for safe prepared in 2004. Over the last been able to get Government
access to basic services, water one and half decades, the city attention and have recently
supply, sanitation, while has experienced significant focused on prioritizing
improving the leisure activity population growth, area urban infrastructures like
rate of women. expansion and heightened water supply and sanitation.
economic activity. In the Understanding the need for
TRANSPORTATION next four to five years, the piped water supply for a better
city is estimated to become a
Public transportation is an urban future, the Ministry of
essential component for million-plus city. There is an Water Resources launched
building sustainable cities. immediate need, therefore, for the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM),
Like many intermediate cities, planning its urban transport which aims to provide 55 litres
system. The master plan for
Guntur, for example, does not of piped water per capita per
have a formal public transport Guntur is also currently under day in urban and rural areas.
system and the city bus revision, wherein various Since the Mission’s launch
services are operated by both transportation studies are to be in 2019, more than 6.90 crore
private and state government conducted. It is necessary that rural households have been
these recommendations are
connected with tap water,
agencies with limited- taking the overall coverage to
service areas and supporting integrated under the umbrella 52.95 per cent.
of reduced carbon emissions
infrastructure, such as bus
stops and public information and green mobility. This Another major challenge in
system. Only 42 per cent of the intervention recommends the planning for water security
preparation of a Low Carbon
city’s population has access in urban areas is to augment
to public transport (bus stop) Comprehensive Mobility water sources and ensure
Plan (LCCMP), detailing
water replenishment. An
assessment of water systems
10 Sustainable City Strategy Guntur, 2022 https://www.unhabitat.org.in/_files/ugd/ in Jaipur revealed that, the
cf3437_3ddbe5d6f9d84181a7fdac4217121e51.pdf city relied on the Bisalpur dam
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