Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)
Recently Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has released the year end review of Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme.
AMRUT along with Smart Cities Mission was jointly planned to transform urban living conditions through infrastructure upgradation.
AMRUT provides for basic civic amenities like water supply, sewerage, urban transport, parks as to improve the quality of life for all, especially the poor and the disadvantaged.
AMRUT is aimed at transforming 500 cities and towns into efficient urban living spaces over a period of five years.
AMRUT is a centrally sponsored scheme with 80% budgetary support from the Centre.
