MUKTA Stands for Mukhya Mantri Karma Tatpara Abhiyan

Vision of MUKTA:

The vision of MUKTA is to alleviate problem of unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban areas and build sustainable community resilience through an integrated urban public works programme.

Objectives of MUKTA
The core objectives of MUKTA are as following:

Create decent wage employment opportunities in urban areas and ensure sustainable livelihoods for urban poor including vulnerable groups like migrant labourers, women, transgenders and persons with disabilities, thereby enhancing human capabilities.

Ensure creation as well as maintenance of inclusive, sustainable, climate resilient community assets, thereby improving quality of life for the urban citizens.

Build sustainable community resilience by enhancing capacities of community-based organisations, building trust-based relationships and promoting local leadership, thereby strengthening the fourth tier of governance and furthering synergies for long term development.

Aahaar program was launched on 1st April 2015 in Odisha.

Housing and Urban Development Department is the nodal department to implement the Aahaar program in the State.

The objective of the program is to provide cooked hot meals - steamed rice and dalma- to the poor and needy people at the cost of Rs. 5/- at places of public congregations in the urban areas.

The program was piloted in five Municipal Corporations viz. Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Berhampur, Sambalpur and Rourkela with 21 Aahaar centres.

Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha dedicated 100 Aahaar centres to the poor and needy people of the State on 14th April 2016.

Currently 110 centres are operational across 30 districts of Odisha covering 73 towns.

Aahaar outlets are mostly opened at hospitals and near bus- stands, railway stations, Courts, Collectorates, etc

Heritage City Development & Augmentation Yojana

The main objective of HRIDAY is to preserve the character and soul of the heritage city and facilitate inclusive heritage linked urban development by exploring various avenues including involving private sector. Specific objectives are:

1. Planning, development and implementation of heritage sensitive infrastructure

2. Service delivery and infrastructure provisioning in historic city core areas.

3. Preserve and revitalize heritage wherein tourists can connect directly with city’s unique character.

4. Develop and document a heritage asset inventory of cities - natural, cultural, living and built heritage as a basis for urban planning, growth and service provision & delivery.

5. Implementation and enhancement of basic services delivery with focus on sanitation services like public conveniences, toilets, water taps, street lights with use of latest technologies in improving tourist facilities/amenities

6. Local capacity enhancement for inclusive heritage-based industry

7. Create effective linkages between tourism and cultural facilities

8. Urban heritage adaptive rehabilitation and maintenance, including appropriate technologies for historic buildings retrofitting

9. Establish and manage effective public private partnership for adaptive urban rehabilitation.

10. Development and promotion of core tangible economic activities to enhance avenues of livelihoods amongst stakeholders. This would also include necessary skill development amongst them including making public spaces accessible and developing cultural spaces

11. Making cities informative and communicative with use of modern ICT tools and making cities secure with modern surveillance and security apparatus

12. Increase accessibility i.e. physical access (roads as well as universal design) and intellectual access (i.e. digital heritage and GIS mapping of historical locations/ tourist maps and routes).

National Urban Livelihoods Mission

To reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots level institutions of the poor. The mission would aim at providing shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner. In addition, the Mission would also address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors by facilitating access to suitable spaces, institutional credit, social security and skills to the urban street vendors for accessing emerging market opportunities.

The National Urban Housing & Habitat Policy (NUHHP), 2007 aims at promoting

sustainable development of habitat in the country with a view to ensuring equitable supply of land, shelter and services at affordable prices to all sections of the society. However, the most vulnerable of these are the urban homeless.

The Urban homeless persons contribute to the economy of the cities and thus the nation as cheap labour in the informal sector; yet they live with no shelter or social security protection. The urban homeless survive with many challenges like no access to elementary public services such as health, education, food, water and sanitation.

National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) aims at providing permanent shelter equipped with essential services to the urban homeless in a phased manner under the Scheme of Shelter for Urban Homeless (SUH).

PRADHAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA

Pradha Mantri Awas Yojana is a central assistance programme under”Housing for All” Mission launched in June 2015 by Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Allevation Govt. of India.The mission seeks to address the housing requirement of urban poor including slum dwellers following programme verticals.

Slum Rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers with participation of private developers using land as Resources

Promotion of affordable Housing for weaker section through credit linked subsidy

Affordable Housing in Partnership with Public and private sector

Subsidy for beneficiary led individual house construction

Housing for All mission for urban area will be implemented during 2015-2022 and provide central assistance to implementing agency through states and UTs for providing houses to all eligible families/beneficiaries by 2022. Recognizing the need for an effective and efficient institutional mechanism for achieving the objectives of ‘Housing for All’ in urban areas, AWAAS (Odisha Urban Housing Mission) was launched by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha on 11th October, 2015. The Government of Odisha has accorded top-priority to 'AWAAS - Odisha Urban Housing Mission' at the state level. The Government, further envisaged creation of District Urban Housing Societies (DUHS) to provide additional managerial and technical capacity to the Odisha Urban Housing Mission, at the district level. 30 DUHS have been setup in 30 districts and one at Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. DUHS is responsible for ensuring the implementation of 'HFA Policy for Housing for All in Urban Areas of Odisha, 2015' and other directions of OUHM and H&UD Department, Govt. of Odisha.

Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0

SBM-U 2.0 will be implemented with a vision of achieving “Garbage Free” status for all cities. This will involve the following:

All households and premises segregate their waste into “wet waste” (from kitchen and gardens) and “dry waste” (including paper, glass, plastic, and domestic hazardous waste and sanitary waste wrapped separately).

100% door to door collection of segregated waste from each household/ premise.

100% scientific management of all fractions of waste, including safe disposal in scientific landfills.

All legacy dumpsites remediated and converted into green zones.

All used water including fecal sludge, especially in smaller cities are safely contained, transported, processed and disposed so that no untreated fecal sludge and used water pollutes the ground or water bodies.

In order to achieve this vision, the following specific objectives are targeted to be achieved:

A) Sustainable Solid Waste Management

Ensuring cleanliness and hygiene in public places to make all cities clean and garbage free, with 100% scientific processing of MSW.

Reducing air pollution arising out of SWM activities.

Phased reduction in use of single-use plastic.

B) Sustainable Sanitation and treatment of used water

Holistic Sanitation, with end-to end solutions (from discharge, containment, evacuation, transportation to safe disposal of all effluents from toilets).

Treatment of used water1 before discharge into water bodies, and maximum reuse of treated used water.

Eradication of hazardous entry into sewers and septic tanks, and sustaining elimination of manual scavenging, through mechanization of sewer and septic tank cleaning operations.

C) Awareness creation along with large scale citizen outreach to create ‘jan andolan’, and institutionalize ‘Swachh’ behaviour.
D) Create institutional capacity to effectively implement programmatic interventions to achieve mission objectives

The Housing and Urban Development Department, Govt. of Odisha launched Garima on 11th September 2020, the first-of-its-kind state-wide scheme for safety and dignity of core sanitation workers. Sanitation workers have been at the bottom of the social and economic ladder who suffer from untold miseries and huge social stigma. This scheme puts in place several initiatives to ensure a life of dignity and safety for all formal and informal sanitation workers engaged in core sanitation services in urban areas of Odisha. The scheme’s primary focus is to create and regulate safe working conditions with respect to following types of core sanitation jobs:

Maintenance of Sewer Network

Emptying of septic tanks/Desludging Service

Cleaning of Drains

Operation & Maintenance of Wastewater Treatment Plants

Operation & Maintenance of Community/Public Toilets

PM STREET VENDORS ATMANIRVAR NIDHI

The scheme is a Central Sector Scheme i.e. fully funded by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs with the following objectives:

To facilitate working capital loan up to 10,000;

To incentivize regular repayment;

To reward digital transactions

The scheme will help formalize the street vendors with above objectives and will open up new opportunities to this sector to move up the economic ladder.