<span style="color: #222222;">Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said that India has undertaken one of the most comprehensive planned urbanization programmes in the history of the world. Mr Puri said this while addressing a webinar to mark the 5th Anniversary of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), Smart Cities Mission and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, AMRUT.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Minister said, under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban, over one crore houses have been sanctioned. Out of which 65 lakhs are grounded and 35 lakhs have been built and delivered to beneficiaries across the country. The scheme was launched in 2015 with the objective of providing pucca house to all eligible beneficiaries of Urban India by 2022 with the vision of Housing for All. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Minister said, the mission AMRUT aims at ensuring universal coverage of drinking water supply and substantial improvement in coverage and treatment capacities of sewerage. The Mission spans across 500 cities, covering more than 60 per cent of urban population. Mr Puri said, concerted effort was made at national level to provide water to about one crore 39 lakh households and sewerage services to about one crore 45 lakh households. In order to promote energy efficiency across the cities, 76 lakh streetlights replaced with energy efficient LED streetlights.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Minister said, Smart Cities Mission was launched on 25th June 2015 with the objective of promoting cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens. He said, as on date, the value of tendered smart city projects is over one lakh 66 thousand crore rupees and the value of all completed projects is more than 27 thousand crore rupees. He said, the Integrated Command and Control Centres developed under the Smart Cities Mission have helped cities in their fight against COVID. The 47 operational centre's became war-rooms and have played an effective role in COVID response.</span><br />''