States need to adopt a well-planned agenda to make urban local bodies to utilize the financial grants effectively. Elaborate (200 Words)
Refer - Financial Express
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IAS Parliament 4 years
KEY POINTS
Agenda for Urban Local bodies
· Urban Local Bodies to utilise the grants as intended linking allocation with funds available from other sources.
· Enable ULBs to qualify entry-level benchmarking and performance assessment.
· Additional dispensation should be made by states for accounting and asset management reforms as per Article 243Z of the Constitution.
· Synchronise NCAP (National Clean Air Programme) funds and central government missions for air quality and water and sanitation which are interconnected (such as construction and demolition waste and drainage plants).
· The Jal Jeevan Mission also provides funds for water and sanitation covering rejuvenation of water bodies to augment transit supply, green spaces, reduce floods.
· The role of extra-budgetary resources at the ULB level should be duly recognised to enhance the availability of funds for all the components with a special focus on health emergencies, shared services and processing of waste.
· Local elasticity at the ULB level has a vast potential as is already being seen in several forward-looking cities such as Bengaluru, Pune and Nagpur (for waste processing) and Ahmedabad for C&D waste.
