As many as 490 projects with an investment of Rs 6,571 crore have got off the ground under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) this year, according to urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.
These include 102 projects to ensure water supply connections to all households besides enabling water supply at the normative 135 litres per head per day in 76 cities at a total cost of Rs 3,474 cr and 41 sewerage and septage management projects and augmenting water supply in another 39 mission cities at a cost of Rs 2,878 crore.