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VOL.1 ISSUE 1
January -June, 2009
SUE/ GTZ Support to JNNURM Reform Project
Status Report on Mandatory and Obligatory JNNURM Reforms
Mandatory reforms are those reforms, which the Urban Local Body (ULB)/parastatal agency/ state government necessarily has to implement under the JNNURM reform project. A status report has been prepared in context of ULB level reforms (mandatory and obligatory) for the cities of Raipur, Nashik, Shimla, Varanasi and Kochi.

The reports mention the mandatory reforms, status in Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and current status of implementation. The mandatory reforms includes municipal accounting, e-governance, registration of birth/death certificates, property tax, water supply, grievances, building approval, procurement and monitoring of projects, health licenses, solid waste management, accounting systems, user charges and personal information system and basic service provision to poor. The optional reforms includes revision of bye-laws to streamline approval process for construction of buildings, simplification of framwework for conversion of agricultural land for nonagricultural purposes, property title certification systems, earmarking of developed land in all housing projects for EWS/LIG category with cross subsidization, computerized process of registration of land and property, Revision of bye-laws to make rain water harvesting mandatory Bye-laws for reuse of recycled water, Administrative reforms, structural reforms and encouraging PPP.