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Narendra Modi called up for a meeting with MPs of Gujarat to discuss the pending issues on Gujarat’s development

Published By : Admin | June 11, 2009 | 10:55 IST
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Narendra Modi called up for a meeting with the MPs of Gujarat to discuss 53 pending issues on Gujarat's development in the Parliament. Since the new government has been formed in the parliament and an atmosphere of fulfilling people's expectation is created Narendra Modi expected that MPs of Gujarat will play a key role in letting Gujarat its due. The meeting was attended by all the newly elected MPs from Gujarat and the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Shri Arun Jately and the Chief Secretary Shri A K Joyti.

The main purpose behind the meeting was to form an effective strategy to present the pending issues in parliament. MPs of both the parties were invited however the MPs of the congress party did not turn up.

Narendra Modi congratulated the newly elected MPs of 15th lok sabha election and BJP party's opposition leader of Rajya Sabha Shri Arun Jately. He expected that all the MPs will raise a firm voice to get Gujarat its due and help in getting Gujarat many other new benefits that will increase the pace of its development.

Almost 25 pending issues were discussed through an effective video presentation that can be presented to all the different department of the parliament. In this presentation note of 53 pending issues that can be sorted out was discussed. The focus of the meeting was to cover the issues of financial matters, new projects strengthening Gujarat's tourism, special scheme of education for the disabled students, providing electricity of 210 mega watts from the cabinet's electricity department that was withheld by the ruling government in the year 2006 and the only 55 mega watts electricity was given to Gujarat. A claim over the remaining 155 mega watts of electricity was discussed. Gujarat's Sindhu basin's Indus water treaty proposal, the approval for the special scheme of 579.22 crores for Gujarat safety road proposal and other important pending issues were discussed.

As the outcome of the meeting all the MPs and the leader of opposition Arun jately and the Chief Secretary A. k Jyoti affirmed that they would do their best to get Gujarat its due.

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Cabinet approves City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain 2.0 (CITIIS 2.0) from 2023 to 2027
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The Union Cabinet chaired by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain 2.0 (CITIIS 2.0). CITIIS 2.0 is a program conceived by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the European Union (EU), and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). The program will run for a period of four years, i.e., from 2023 till 2027.

The program envisages to support competitively selected projects promoting circular economy with focus on integrated waste management at the city level, climate-oriented reform actions at the State level, and institutional strengthening and knowledge dissemination at the National level.

The funding for CITIIS 2.0 would include a loan of Rs.1760 crore (EUR 200 million) from AFD and KfW (EUR 100 million each) and a technical assistance grant of Rs.106 cr. (EUR 12 million) from the EU.

CITIIS 2.0 aims to leverage and scale up the learnings and successes of CITIIS 1.0. CITIIS 1.0 was launched jointly in 2018 by MoHUA, AFD, EU, and NIUA, with a total outlay of ₹933 crore (EUR 106 million). CITIIS 1.0 consisted of three components:

Component 1: 12 city-level projects selected through a competitive process.

Component 2: Capacity-development activities in the State of Odisha.

Component 3: Promoting integrated urban management at the national level through activities undertaken by NIUA, which was the Program Management Unit (PMU) for CITIIS 1.0

Technical assistance was made available under the program at all three levels through domestic experts, international experts, and transversal experts. It has resulted in the mainstreaming of innovative, integrated and sustainable urban development practices through a unique challenge-driven financing model based on the principles of competitive and cooperative federalism.

Following the CITIIS 1.0 model, CITIIS 2.0 has three major components:

Component 1: Financial and technical support for developing projects focused on building climate resilience, adaptation and mitigation in up to 18 smart cities through selection of competitively selected projects promoting circular economy with focus on integrated waste management.

Component 2: All States and UTs will be eligible for support on demand basis. The States will be provided support to (a) set-up/strengthen their existing State climate centres/ Climate cells/ equivalents (b) create State and city level Climate Data Observatories (c) facilitate climate-data driven planning, develop climate action plans and (d) build capacities of municipal functionaries. To achieve these objectives, the PMU at NIUA will coordinate provision of technical assistance and strategic support to State Governments.

Component 3: Interventions at all three levels; Centre, State and City to further climate governance in urban India through institutional strengthening, knowledge dissemination, partnerships, building capacity, research and development to support scale up across all States and Cities.

CITIIS 2.0 will supplement the climate actions of Government of India through its ongoing National programs (National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, AMRUT 2.0, Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 and Smart Cities Mission), as well as contributing positively to India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and Conference of the Parties (COP26) commitments.