Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas
Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA) is a strategy for
PURA proposes that urban infrastructure and services be provided in rural hubs to create economic opportunities outside of cities. Physical connectivity by providing roads, electronic connectivity by providing communication networks, and knowledge connectivity by establishing professional and technical institutions will have to be done in an integrated way so that economic connectivity will emanate. The Indian central government has been running pilot PURA programs in several states since 2004. The Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission is a successor to this mission.[3][4]
Current status of PURA
Failure of PURA
Former
Extension to 2000 new towns
The Rural ministry plans to reform one of its ambitious yet not so successful programme; Provision of Urban amenities in Rural Areas (PURA), to facilitate creation of urban infrastructure in around 2,000 new towns that have been identified by the 2011 decadal census. It is also trying to restructure the old PURA objectives laid down by the then President.[6]
Underpayment of wages
The Prestigious scheme proposed providing livelihood and urban amenities in compact areas around a potential growth center in Gram Panchayats through Public Private Partnership (PPP) framework to provide guarantee employment to rural areas so that they could have an assured income for at least 100 days of a year. The scheme is now facing rampant corruption, cases of underpayment of wages have been received by the government from all over the country.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ "Jairam Ramesh criticises APJ Abdul Kalam's PURA, launches his own version โ India โ DNA". Daily News and Analysis. 24 February 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- ^ Devika Banerji, ET Bureau 11 Oct 2011, 05.12am IST (11 October 2011). "Provision of Urban amenities in Rural Areas might be extended to 2,000 new towns identified by 2011 Census". The Economic Times. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
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