After the pet project of the former President PURA (provision of urban amenities in rural areas) failed to take off, the Centre has restructured it into PURA 2.0 to focus on rapidly urbanising rural areas, which are not being administered by municipal bodies. Unveiling PURA 2.0, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said the scheme would focus on Trishanku, a term he coined to describe neither rural nor urban, areas.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/centre-relaunches-rural-urbanisation-project
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/asian-age-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urbanisation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-rural-development
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/panchayats
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/census-2011
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/habitat-and-urbanisation
