Centre approves Rs5,498 crore for Rajasthan under AMRUT

Jaipur: The Central government has approved Rs 5,498.04 crore for Rajasthan under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) on Thursday.
The approval was given in the Apex Committee of AMRUT, which was chaired by urban development, secretary, Rajiv Gauba. Manjit Singh, principal secretary, local self government (LSG), said, "Rajasthan model was appreciated by the Centre.For 2016-17, approval of Rs 1,120 crore has been given. In this, Centre will provide assistance of Rs 536 crore as its share."Under the plan, AMRUT projects are proposed to be taken up in 13 of the 28 AMRUT cities in the state. These include Alwar, Beawar and Nagaur, where both water supply and sewerage projects will be taken up while water supply projects will be taken up in seven other cities including Baran, Bhiwar, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Dhaulpur, Ganganagar city and Sujangarh. In three cities - Bhiwadi, Sikar and Udaipur - only sewerage and seepage management projects will be taken up, an UD ministry official said.
These cities have been identified by the state government in line with the guidelines after analyzing the gaps in coverage in respect to household water supply connections and sewerage network services.
In the case of water supply connections in 28 AMRUT cities, the coverage ranged from 28% in Nagaur to 98% in Bhiwadi. In terms of quantity of water being supplied, it ranged from 38 litres per capita per day (lpcd) in Gangapur city to 150 lpcd in Kota.
As per the state government proposal, there is no sewerage network in 10 cities including Baran, Beawer, Bhilwara, Bhiwadi, Ganganagar city, Hindaun city, Sawai Madhopur, Sikar, Sujangarh and Tonk. Sewerage projects are proposed in Beawer, Bhiwadi and Sikar.
Coverage of sewerage network services in other cities is in the range of 10-25% in six cities, 26-50% in three cities, 51-75% in five and more than 75% in four cities. The state has proposed Rs 555 crore for six sewerage and septage management projects and Rs 344 crore for 10 water supply projects.
Project expenditure proposed in the 13 cities include Beawar (Rs 154 crore), Alwar (Rs 130 crore), Bhiwadi (Rs 110 crore), Nagaur (Rs 110 crore), Sikar (Rs 110 crore), Udaipur (Rs 85 crore), Baran (Rs 50 crore), Chittorgarh (Rs 40 crore), Ganganagar city (Rs 40 crore), Dholpur (Rs 30 crore), Bhilwara (Rs 25 crore), Sujangarh (Rs 25 crore) and Bhiwadi (Rs 20 crore).