Impact of JNNURM and UIDSSMT/ IHSDP Programmes on Infrastructure and Governance Outcomes in Cities/ Towns in India

The paper is based on a review of the available official data and the existing literature on the Missions. It is divided into three broad sections. The first analyzes data available from the official website (as of March 2014) to elicit broad trends with regard to the projects and reforms at the conclusion of the Mission period in March 2014. Given that the official data doesn’t focus on ground-level impacts, the second section focuses on gleaning such insights from a review of literature and reports written on the JNNURM over the mission period. This helps to review the critique of and feedback on improving or substantially changing the JNNURM programmes from a variety of perspectives (government reports, academic papers and civil society consultations). In the final section two city level case studies of the JNNURM, Kochi and Surat, are presented based mostly on secondary data, to understand the factors shaping city-level outcomes.