Gujarat gets four awards for JnNURM projects

Gujarat has got four awards under various categories from the Union Urban Development Ministry for implementation of JNNURM projects, state Urban Development Minister Nitin Patel said today.

Surat has been adjudged as the best performing city under the Centre’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) projects, he said.

He said Surat has got two other awards — best improvement in financial management and pro-poor reforms in JNNURM project while Ahmedabad’s bus rapid transit system (BRTS) has got one award.

Patel said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will give the awards in a function to be held tomorrow in Delhi.

He said under the national urban renewal mission, which partly funds the projects in the urban areas, projects worth Rs 50,000 crore related to housing, infrastructure, water, drainage and sewerage are under implementation in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara in the state.