Centre offers Rs 15k cr incentive to states for better urban planning

Amid rampant autonomous and haphazard growth of cities, which are becoming unsustainable, the Centre has announced financial incentives of Rs 15,000 crore for states and UTs for the current financial year to nudge them to ensure proper urban planning by hiring adequate number of planners and take up projects such as transit-oriented development (TOD), town planning schemes and in-situ slum rehabilitation.

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