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(GIST OF YOJANA) National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) [FEBRUARY-2019]

(GIST OF YOJANA) National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY)

Mains Paper 3: Economy
Prelims level: HRIDAY
Mains level: Infrastructure, roads, ports, railways

Introduction

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, launched the National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme on January
21, 2015, with a focus on holistic development of heritage cities.
The main objective of HRIDAY is to preserve character of the soul of heritage city and facilitate inclusive heritage linked urban development by exploring various avenues including involving private sector.

Objectives

Planning, development and implementation of heritage sensitive infrastructure.
Service delivery and infrastructure provisioning in historic city core areas.
Preserve and revitalize heritage wherein tourists can connect directly with city’s unique character.
Develop and document a heritage asset inventory of cities- natural, cultural, living and built heritage as a basis for urban planning, growth and service provision and delivery.
Implementation and enhancement of basic services delivery with focus on sanitation services like public conveniences, toilets, water taps, street lights with use of latest technologies in improving tourist facilities/ amenities

Local capacity enhancement for inclusive heritage-based industry.
Create effective linkages between tourism and cultural facilities and also the conservation of natural and built heritage.
Urban heritage adaptive rehabilitation and maintenance, including appropriate technologies for historic buildings retrofitting.
Establish and manage effective public private partnership for adaptive urban rehabilitation.
Development and promotion of core tangible economic activities to enhance avenues of livelihoods amongst stakeholders.
This would also include necessary skill development amongst them including making public spaces accessible and developing cultural spaces.
Making cities informative with use of modem 1CT tools and making cities secure with modem surveillance and security apparatus like CCTV etc.
Increase accessibility i.e. physical access (roads as well as universal design) and intellectual access (i.e. digital heritage and GIS mapping of historical locations/ tourist maps and routes).
The scheme is implemented in 1 2 identified Cities namely, Ajmer, Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwarka, Gaya, Kanchipuram, Mathura, Puri, Varanasi, Velankanni and Warangal.