The Hindu 02.12.2010
GVMC wins BSUP award
Staff Reporter
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has won a second award in the implementation of the Centrally-sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission for 2009-10 by standing first in the country for its implementation of Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP).
GVMC had won awards for 2008-09 for BSUP implementation and earmarking funds for the poor in the JNNURM implementation.
The BSUP award is the second for 2009-10. GVMC has already been selected for best implementation of Urban Infrastructure and Governance for 2009-10.
Municipal Commissioner V.N. Vishnu said it was a matter of pride that the city stood first in two categories among 63 mission cities in the country.
The award for BSUP comes for implementation of a seven-point charter for services like water supply, bank linkage, the seven projects taken up under BSUP achieving 75 per cent progress and allotment of 300 acres for housing to the poor, he elaborated.
The awards will be received by Mr. Vishnu and Mayor Pulusu Janardhana Rao from Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at a function at New Delhi to mark the fifth anniversary of JNNURM on December 3.
