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Flagship Scheme S a a P a a M e R a M o

HOW ‘RURBAN’ WAS PROPOSED

S a a P a a M e R a M o SPMRM

RURBAN MISSION

URBAN PLANNING FOR

RURAL INDIA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken he rural population of India also
about ‘ease of living’ at length in his various desires education, good hospitals,

speeches. But ensuring basic amenities are Tpotable water and other facilities
not just limited to the urban areas. This also like Internet and better employment
includes the villages of India where about opportunities. All these things attract
68 per cent of the population resides. To them to the cities. While they migrate, the
ensure that this population also gets every question of why they cannot get these
facility that are provided in urban settings, the services in villages constantly haunts
Government launched the Shyama Prasad them. To mitigate the problems of the
Mukherji Rurban Mission scheme in 2016 common man, Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launched Shyama Prasad Mukherji

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