HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND

AUGMENTATION YOJANA (HRIDAY)

By: Hrishi Sharma (A4134918004- B.Plan 2018-22)
 HRIDAY- INTRODUCTION
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India,
launched the National Heritage City Development and
Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme on 21st January, 2015,
with a focus on holistic development of heritage cities.
The scheme aims to preserve and revitalize soul of the
heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by
encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible, informative &
secured environment.
The HRIDAY Scheme offers tremendous opportunity towards
an integrated, inclusive and sustainable development of some
of the heritage cities/towns in India.
HRIDAY offers a paradigm shift in India's approach to city
development, bringing together urban planning/economic
growth and heritage conservation in an inclusive and
integrated manner with focus on livelihoods, skills,
cleanliness, security, accessibility and service delivery.
HRIDAY- OBJECTIVES

 Planning, developing and implementing infrastructure keeping in mind sensitivities of heritage,

including service delivery and development of infrastructure in core areas of historic cities.

 Preserve and renovate heritage so that tourists can connect with each heritage city’s unique nature.

 Develop a heritage asset inventory of cities documenting built, cultural, living and natural heritage
as a basis for urban planning, growth, planning of services and their delivery.

 Enhancement of basic services focusing on sanitation like public toilets, water taps, security like
street lights and in improving tourist facilities.

 Create linkages between cultural facilities and tourism along with the conservation of heritage and
capacity building of local industries based on heritage.
HRIDAY- OBJECTIVES

 Adaptive maintenance of urban heritage, including rehabilitation using appropriate

technology for retrofitting historic buildings with modern conveniences.

 Establishment of public-private partnership for preserving and maintaining historic

buildings is also part of this goal.

 Promotion of economic activities to enhance avenues of employment among people

living in and around the heritage sites. This includes skill development among them and
making public and cultural spaces accessible.

 Making cities informative using modern ICT tools and making cities secure using modern
security devices like CCTV etc.

 Increase access to heritage sites by developing roads, adopting the universal design, GIS
mapping of historical locations and building a digital record of the heritage etc.
KEY COMPONENTS OF THE SCHEME

Institutional
Infra

Physical Economic
HRIDAY
Infra Infra

Social Infra
HRIDAY- FUNDING MECHANISM

 It is a central sector scheme with 100 percent funding coming from Central Government.
 The fund will be released to executing agencies by MoUD. Out of the total annual
allocation of Project Fund available with HRIDAY the distribution will be as under:

 The fund will be released to executing

agencies by MoUD as under:

1. 20% (1st instalment) on approval of the

project.

2. 60% (2nd instalment) on 20% physical

and financial progress of the project

3. 20% (3rd instalment) on 60% physical

and financial progress of the project
MONITORING PROGRESS OF PROJECTS
SANCTIONED UNDER THE HRIDAY

 Ministry of Urban Development will periodically monitor the scheme through

designated officers

 NPMU will develop monitoring frameworks and tools to assist Mission

Directorates for effective monitoring of interventions undertaken under the
project

 Third Party Monitoring Mechanism would be employed by National Mission

Directorate to keep track the progress of the project / scheme.

 Expenditure in this regard would be met from the Capacity Building funds in
MoUD for professional services
HRIDAY- PRESENT STATUS & PROGRESS

 In 2018, 20 projects amounting to Rs. 140.14 Crores have been completed in the cities of
Ajmer, Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwaraka, Puri and Varanasi.

 In order to enhance the experience of religious tourists visiting prominent heritage sites in
the HRIDAY Cities, upgradation of 59 roads leading to various heritage sites in the city of
Varanasi, Ajmer, Amritsar and Amaravati have been completed.

 Three projects for rejuvenation of public parks and gardens in the cities of Amritsar (Gol
Bagh), Ajmer (Subhash Udyan) and Puri (Banki Muhana) have been completed.

 In order to revive the local heritage in cities and create additional tourist attractions, 3
projects for development of heritage walks in Pushkar, Ajmer and Varanasi connecting
important monuments, along the lanes with historical architecture have been completed.
 HRIDAY- PRESENT STATUS & PROGRESS

Some Success Stories

1. Restoration of Rambagh School

2. Conservation and Development of Town Hall as Heritage Centre
3. Development of Subhash Udhyan at Ajmer
4. Development of landscape garden by using treated water from waste water treatment plant at bankimuhan
HRIDAY: IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES

 Lack of trust from local government owing to the varied perceptions about the scheme

 Non-Clear role of Municipalities and other ULB’s

 Awareness amongst the citizens regarding the scheme and its objectives

 Lack of effective communication between the different stakeholders involved in the scheme

 Poor management between stakeholders owing to lack of effective communication

 TYPES OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

S.No. Sector/ Typology Example

1 Housing 1. Aranya Community Housing, Indore, India

2. CIDCO Housing, Parsik Hill, Belapur, India

2 Transport 1. Hyderabad Metro

2. Mumbai Metro

3 Physical Infra 1. Timarpur Okhla Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Project
2. Karnataka Urban Water Supply Improvement Project

1. Matheran Special Area Plan

4 Environmental 2. Namami Gange

Social/
5 Recreational 1. Sabarmati Riverfront Development
 HOUSING PROJECTS
1. Aranya Community Housing, Indore, India
• This housing settlement is 6 km from the city center.
• Aranya Housing that spreads in 85 hectares with 6500
houses for 60,000 people, was completed in 1989 with
1, 00,000 Sq.m of built-up areas.
• The concept of design is to facilitate social interaction.
• There are six sectors connected by a central spine.
Toilets, water connections, drainage system are
providing in each house
2. CIDCO Housing, Parsik Hill, Belapur, India
• This housing settlement of 9 hectares with 1000
units was developed in 1998.
• Because of the topography of the site, every
block has a different shape and size.
• One and two-room units are designed in 20 to
100 sq.m area
 TRANSPORT PROJECTS
Government / Private sector
Name of Sector Type Year public sector promoter / sponsor / Project Concessio
Project entity / entities consortium cost n period
members
Mumbai
Mass BOOT Metropolitan Reliance Energy
Mumbai Rapid (includes 2007 Region Limited, Veolia 2,356 35 years
Metro Transport Design and Development Transport (France) crore
Finance) Authority and MMRDA
(MMRDA)
Maytas
Infrastructure,
BOT Government of
Hyderabad Mass (includes Government of Andhra Pradesh, Nav 11,814
Metro Rapid Design and 2008 Andhra Pradesh Bharat Ventures, crore 35 years
Transport Finance) IL&FS and Ital-Thai
(Subsequently
cancelled in 2009)
 INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
Government / Private sector
Name of Project Sector Type Year public sector promoter / sponsor / Project Concession
entity / entities consortium cost period
members
Timarpur Okhla
Integrated BOOT
Municipal Solid (includes Jindal Urban 200
Waste MSW Design and 2008 NDMC & MCD Infrastructure crore 25 years
Management Finance) Limited
Project

Karnataka Karnataka Urban

Urban Water Urban Operations & Infrastructure Veolia Water 42 months
Supply Water Management 2005 Development (formerly known as 32 crore (Later
Improvement Supply Contract and Finance Compagnie Generale extended to
Project Corporation des Eaux, France) 59 months)
(KUIDFC)
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