JNNURM Reform Agenda
The Mission requires the state governments and cities seeking assistance to undertake reforms in order to achieve its objectives. The reforms are in two parts :

1. Mandatory

2. Optional

Mandatory Reforms: State-level
To be undertaken at the state level, the mandatory reforms are :

• Effective implementation of decentralisation initiatives as envisaged in the Constitution (seventy-fourth) Amendment Act, 1992

• Repeal of Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976

• Reform of Rent Control laws, by balancing the interests of landlords and tenants *

• Rationalisation of stamp duty to bring it down to no more than 5 per cent within seven years

• Enactment of a public disclosure law

• Enactment of a community participation law, so as to institutionalise citizens' participation in local decision making ; and

• Association of elected municipalities with the city planning function.

Mandatory Reforms: Municipal-level
To be undertaken at the level of municipalities, the reforms comprise :

• Adoption of a modern, accrual-based, Double Entry System of Accounting

• Introduction of a system of e-governance using IT applications, GIS and MIS for various urban services

• Reform of property tax with GIS, and arrangements for its effective implementation so as to raise collection efficiency to 85 per cent

• Levy of reasonable user charges, with the objective that full cost of operation and maintenance is collected within seven years

• Internal earmarking of budgets for basic services to the urban poor; and

• Provision of basic services to the urban poor, including security of tenure at affordable prices.

Optional Reforms

• Revision of bye-laws to streamline the approval process for construction of buildings, development of sites etc.

• Simplification of legal and procedural frameworks for conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes

• Introduction of property title certification

• Earmarking of at least 20-25 per cent developed land in housing projects for economically weaker sections and low income groups with a system of cross-subsidization

• Introduction of computerized registration of land and property

• Revision of bye-laws to make rainwater harvesting mandatory in all buildings, and adoption of water conservation measures

• Bye-laws for reuse of recycled water

• Administrative reforms including reduction in establishment cost by introducing voluntary retirement schemes and surrender of posts falling vacant due to retirement

• Structural reforms ; and

• Encouraging public private-partnership.

Coverage
In the first phase, 63 Mission cities comprising all those with population exceeding one million, state capitals and 20 other cities of religious and tourist importance have been identified by Union Ministries of Urban Development  . In West Bengal, Kolkata and Asansol have been identified as Mission Cities. Kolkata Mission City include the entire Kolkata Metropolitan Area and Asansol Mission City includes the Asansol-Durgapur Development Authority area. Other towns have been included in the list of non-Mission Cities.  80 non-KMA towns will be covered under  Urban Infrastructure Development for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) and Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP).

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