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The Ministry for Housing
& Urban Poverty Alleviation has embarked upon an initiative of “Hand
holding” for the State and UT Governments to enable them to prepare DPRs
for the projects for BSUP and IHSDP projects under JNNURM as per the
guidelines of the schemes. The responsibility for organising these
Workshops/Training Programmes was entrusted to BMTPC and HUDCO.
Accordingly, BMTPC and HUDCO organized number of such workshops and
training programmes in various States for the capacity building of
municipal funcationaries.
The primary focus of these programmes was to assist the
municipal functionaries for preparation of DPRs for BSUP and IHSDP under
JNNURM and to highlight the crucial areas which evolve during the
appraisal process and have an important bearing on the sanction of the
project. Such programmes were organized in the following places in the
month of January 2007:
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Bangalore for municipal functionaries of Karnataka
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Patna for Jharkhand and Bihar
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Port
Blair for Andaman & Nicobar Islands
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Kolkata for West
Bengal and North
Eastern States including
Sikkim
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Chandigarh for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and
Chandigarh
These programmes were
attended by about 350 municipal functionaries comprising of
administrators, engineers, executive officers, etc. These 1/2-days
training programmes provided indepth information to the participants on
the guidelines and the salient features of the BSUP and IHSDP under JNNURM
and on preparation and appraisal of DPRs. In each of these programmes,
detailed presentations were made by the officials from the Ministry, HUDCO,
BMTPC and respective State nodal agency which were followed by extensive
open house discussion/floor interventions.
One
of the highlight of these programmes was that the case studies were also
presented during such programmes and also one-to-one discussions were held
with the municipal functionaries in order to have first hand information
of the problems being faced by them in preparation of DPRs with a view to
evolve tangible solutions to these within the overall framework of JNNURM
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