Minister of Urban Development Kamalnath today informed that 157 projects for water supply under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, JNNURM have been sanctioned at the cost of over twenty thousand crore rupees. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, he said 65 cities have been identified for this purpose.

He said that water supplies is a State subject, however, Centre supplements the efforts of State government and Union Territories to provide drinking water to the people. Mr. Kamalnath also informed that four projects accounting for a total investment of 315 crore 60 lakh rupees have been sanctioned under the Asian Development Bank assisted North Eastern Region Urban Development Programme, NERUDP which covers five capital cities in the North East. These are Shillong, Aizawl, Agartala, Gangtok and Kohima.