Also: Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, AMRUT 2.0
Definition
A central urban mission launched in June 2015 to give households in about 500 cities basic services such as tap water and sewerage, with green spaces and urban reforms; its second phase, AMRUT 2.0 (2021), aims for universal water supply in all statutory towns and sewerage in the original AMRUT cities.
India's towns and cities grew faster than their pipes. Census 2011 showed that a large share of urban households had no piped water inside their premises and that most cities lacked full sewerage networks, so wastewater flowed into open drains and rivers. The earlier JNNURM (2005–14) had funded big infrastructure projects in selected cities, but many were delayed and the focus on large assets did not always translate into household connections.
AMRUT was designed as a correction. It moved from project-by-project approval to state-level plans, called State Annual Action Plans, which the Centre approved as a whole, giving states more freedom while asking cities to plan for service-level targets. The first phase concentrated on water supply and sewerage, along with storm-water drainage, non-motorised transport and parks. The second phase widened the water goal to every statutory town in the country and added water body rejuvenation, reuse of treated water and a city water balance approach. This page looks at AMRUT as a basic-services programme, the less visible partner of the Smart Cities Mission.
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