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INTRODUCTION Rehabilitation Leases in Delhi 5. In addition to managing the Central Government lands in Delhi the Land and Development Office administers nazuv INTRODUCTION rehabilitation leases in Delhi. The Town & Country Planning Organisation is the technical arm of the Ministry in matters of town planning, regional planning and urban development. The Central The Ministry of Urban Affairs & Employment has Public Health and Environmental Engineering two distinct sets of responsibilities. One pertains to Public provides the technical input in the the broad policy formulation and monitoring of sphere of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation. The programmes in the areas of housing, urban Stationery Office meets the requirements of the development, urban proverty alleviation and urban Central Government Offices In respect of water supply and sanitation. These are essentially stationery. The Publication Department located in State subjects. The Government of India plays a Delhi stocks and sells Government pu coordinating and monitoring role and also supports these programmes through central sector schemes, institutional finance and expertise. in 8. The Housing and Urban Development addition to this, the Ministry has been entrusted Corporation Ltd. (HUOCO) was set up as a fully with the responsibility of planning and coordi- owned Government Company in April 1970 with a nating urban transport matters in the country. view to provide loans and technical support to 2. The other set of responsibilities pertains to the State and City level agencies and other eligible construction and maintenance of Central Organisations for various types of housing Government buildings; including residential activities and infrastructural development. The accommodation, with the exception of those under National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. is the Ministries of Defence Atomic Energy, a civil construction agency which has major clients Railways and Communications. This Ministry is both in India and abroad. It has a number of turn- also responsible for the management of Central key projects. to its credit including bridges, Government land/property, most of which is flyovers, industrial structures, water treatment confined to ‘Delhi and other metropolitan cities. plants, hostels, TV Towers, hospitals, railway These functions are discharged through the buildings etc. The Hindustan Prefab Ltd. is Central Public Works Department which has field engaged mainly in fhe manufacture of pre- formations spread all over the Country, and the stressed cement concrete poles, railway sleepers, Land and Development Office located in Delhi wooden joinery items, pre-cast concrete This Ministry is also responsible for meeting the components, water storage tanks, vayutan (light printing & stationery requirement of all the Central weight auto claved cellular concrete) blocks for Government Ministries/Departments, and stocking insulation, partitions etc. and selling of Government publications. 3. Under its Administrative control, the Ministry 7. The Delhi Development Authority has statutory has four Attached and four Subordinate Offices, jurisdiction over all development and land use in three Public Sector‘ Undertakings and eight the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Statutory/Autonomous Bodies (Appendix I). Delhi Urban Arts Commission has statutory 4. The Central Public Works Department is the mandate to preserve and develop the aesthetic largest of these. Its workload during the year quality and environment in Delhi. The National 1997-98 was Rs. 2204 crores. The Directorate of Capital Region Planning Board constituted in Estates is mainly responsible for administration of March, 1085 under the NCR Planning Board Act, Government Estates and Hostels. The Directorate 1985, has two important goals to be achieved viz of Printing with its 21 Presses in various parts of (i) evolving harmonised policies for the control of the country caters to the printing requirements of land uses and development of infrastructure in the the Central Government Ministries/Departments. NCR so as to avoid any haphazard development After its restructuring in 1992, National Buildings of the Region, and ‘(ii) achieving a manageable Organisati takes up mainly the socio-economic Delhi by 2001 A.D. The National Institute of Urban management e nt information system and creation of Affairs (NIUA) was set up in 1978 as an data bank functions. autonomous organisation registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1880 for carrying-out better distribution, proper storage, better water urban research in the country and collecting, management practices, conservation of ground processing, storing and disseminating information water resources need to be tackled by resourced relating to urban local bodies, their functioning, deficient Union Local Bodies (ULBs). Similarly, management, finances, development programmes sanitation and environmental hygiene need urgent and personnel training. Rajghat Samadhi attention. Disposal of solid waste, proper Committee was constituted in 1951 in accordance sewerage and drainage facilities, regular with the Rajghat Samadhi Act, 1951 to administer conservancy and effective public health measures the Rajghat, the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi. In need to be re-established. Funds are a major order to bridge the gap between research and constraint. Municipal finances need drastic development and to promote large scale improvement through restructuring of the ULBs, appliition of innovative building materials and adopting a USER pay-ABUSER pay approach, technologies, an organisation named “Building private-public partnerships ‘and by more efficient Materials and Technology Promotion Council” has use of existing resources of men and material. In been set up as a Society under the aegis of the order to ensure sustainability of water supply and Ministry of Urban Affairs & Employment. The sanitation in small towns, centrally sponsored National Cooperative Housing Federation (NCHF) Accelerated Urban Water Supply Schemes of India set up in 1989, is a national level (A.U.W.S.P.) provides for safe and adequate organisation spearheading the entire cooperative water supply facilities to towns with population of housing movement in India and is supported by less than 20,000 as per 1991 census. the Ministry of Urban Affairs & Employment as 10. With the enactment and subsequent part of the Government’s encouragement of notification of the Employment of Manual cooperative housing. Its aims are to coordinate the Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines Apex Cooperative Housing Finance Societies and (Prohibition) Act, 1993, the Act has become to promote and develop cooperative housing applicable to six States and UTs. Some States societies in the country. Central Government have subsequently adopted the Act. All the State Employees Welfare Housing Organisation has Govts. have been requested to frame ‘rules for been set up as a Society under the aegis of the bringing the Act into fcrce. To supplement the Ministry of Urban Affairs & Employment for State Govts’ efforts, Low Cdst Sanitation Scheme providing housing to Central Government for liberation of scavengers with subsidies from employees Govt. of India and loan from HUDCO, is being 8. The National Housing Policy envisages the actively implemented. Govt’s role as that of a facilitator and enabler. The 11. The Swarna Jayanti Shahri Rojgar Yojana Policy is tailored towards facilitating cost-effective which came into being from 1.12.1997, technology, easy availability of land and low cost encompasses all the earlier urban poverty finance, training of artisans and a smooth delivery alleviation schemes viz., Urban Basic Services for mechanism. In addition to the already existing the Poor, Nehru Rojgar Yojana, and the Prime Central Sector Housing Schemes for various Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication priority groups aimed at benefiting the urban poor, Programme. The SJSRY seeks to provide gainful it is proposed to launch schemes particularly for employment to the urban unemployed or under- those affected by natural calamities like employed by encouraging self-employment earthquakes and floods etc. More than 500 ventures and/or provision of wage employment. building centres have been established with An innovative component of this scheme is the Central assistance through HUDCO which embody programme for the development of women and the concept of cost-effective technology, low-cost children in urban areas which aims to make production of appropriate building materials and women economically independent. serve as training centres for artisans and labour, 12. This Ministry is in the process of formulating, a for imparting innovative technologies. National Urban Policy keeping in view the 9. The water supply and sanitation needs of recommendations of the National Commission on urban areas have been the biggest casualities of Urbanisation. The Policy will take into account the urban population explosion. The poor are the suggestions received from State Govts., State worst sufferers. Shortage of potable water is only Urbanisation strategy papers prepared in the the visible face of the. problem. Problems such as context of IDSMT scheme and the decentralisation 2 reforms as envisaged in the Constitution (74th national exchequer. The Mega City Scheme Amendment Act, 1992). The Planning Commission launched in 199394 provides funds to state has constituted a National * Task 1 Force on Pers- governments for infrastructural development in the pective and Policy in 1995. The
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