The High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure has constituted a subcommittee on Financing Urban Infrastructure with the following terms of reference: Year-wise investments for the twelfth plan; Sources of financing (viz.

The Ministry has adopted service level benchmarks for the water and sanitation sector with a view to shift the focus of urban development projects from infrastructure creation to improvement of service levels. The 13th Finance Commission has made it mandatory for all cities having municipalities and municipal corporations to disclose their performance in terms of these benchmarks annually. The Ministry is committed to mainstreaming these benchmarks through its various schemes. This note on sewerage and sewerage technologies has been envisaged in the above context.

This advisory note on Improving Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Services (WSS) in India is an effort to provide guidance to States and Cities in adopting specific policies and governance structures for improving service delivery to the

The Census of India has recently published Provisional Population Totals, Paper - II of 2011: India, Volume-II. Based on this, TCPO has prepared a report which analyzes the pattern of urbanization, number of towns, state-wise and district-wise urban population. As at present, the data is available only for Class-I towns, the report will be updated when the Census of India releases the figures for the remaining classes.

Urbanization . . a process characterized by more and more people living in the urban areas is one of the most important
transformations the world has witnessed in recent decades. India is an integral part of the process. In 2010, India accounted for 11 per cent of the world's urban population; the United Nations projects it to be 15 per cent by 2030.

The National Mission for Sustainable Habitat was approved by the Prime Minister’s Council for Climate Change in June 2010. One of the deliverables of the Mission is the formulation of National Sustainable Habitat Standards. These standards would subsequently get integrated with relevant regulations to ensure that future developments are aligned in accordance with concerns related to climate change. Accordingly, a sub-committee was appointed under the chairmanship of Shri. A.K.

This report on Development of Sustainable Habitat Parameters in the field of Urban Planning has been prepared by a Sub-Committee constituted by the Ministry of Urban Development under the National Mission for Sustainable Habitat (HMSH), one of the missions of the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC). The report outlines a vision combined with a set of recommended actionable/measurable indicators for the sustainable development in the country.

The National Mission for Sustainable Habitat was approved by the Prime Minister's Council for Climate Change in June 2010. One of the deliverables of the Mission is the formulation of National Sustainable Habitat Standards. It is intended that these standards would subsequently get integrated with relevant regulations to ensure that future developments are aligned in accordance with concerns related to climate change.

The Challenges of Urbanization in India are unprecedented in scale and significance. The magnitude of the challenge can be understood from the sheer fact that our urban areas may be required to accommodate 250-300 million people in addition to the population that they are already home to at present in about two decades from now. Similarly, the scale of investment required would be of the order of nearly Rs. 50,00,000 Crore over next two decades if basic infrastructure is to be provided.

This draft report by the sub-committee on urban transport proposes parameters for the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (NMSH) . It specially addresses norms for parking and congestion charges, pedestrianization & cycling and the model regulations for integrating transport Planning with master plans.