Meet on new urban sector initiatives on Feb 7

The top brass of the Ministries of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, including senior officials, will hold daylong consultations with about 120 Municipal Commissioners from the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh in Mumbai on February 7 on various issues relating to implementation of new urban sector initiatives.
Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu will set off the deliberations at the Consultative Workshop on Urban Governance sharing with the states his concerns about managing growing urbanisation, state of urban governance, experiences of implementation of JNNURM and new initiatives required in the context of measures by the central government like Smart Cities, National Urban Development Mission for 500 Cities, Swachh Bharat Mission, Housing for All and Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana.

Issues like Cyber Security and Public Private Participation models for resource mobilisation will also be discussed, according to a release.
Maharasthra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister of State for Urban Development Babul Supriyo and the Maharashtra Minister of State for Urban Development Ranjit Vitthalrao Patil will attend the workshop.
Senior officials of the Ministries of Urban Development and HUPA will make detailed presentations on various schemes and bring out issues for consideration and action by the states and urban local bodies. Responses of states will be taken on each of implementation issues.
The Mumbai workshop is the third in the series being organized by the Urban Development Ministry to take states and urban local bodies on board for effective implementation of new urban sector initiatives.

Two workshops were earlier held for southern and northern states in Hyderabad and New Delhi respectively.
The fourth and final workshop for eastern and northeastern states will be held later this month.