MADRAS URBAN

closed

The proposed project would provide: (a) sites and services for about 13,500 families; (b) basic infrastructure services and community facilities in 85 slum areas; (c) sheds, equipment, finance and training to create jobs in small-scale business and in cottage industry in the sites and services and slum improvement project areas; (d) buildings, equipment and training to provide supplementary nutrition, health examinations, immunization, health and nutrition education and functional literacy training for about 17,000 pre-school age children and 20,000 women from the beneficiary households in the sites and services and slum improvement project areas; (e) measures to rehabilitate the existing water supply and sewerage systems; (f) construction of about 12 km of an Inner Ring Road and of pedestrian walkways, bicycle tracks and other road and traffic improvements and traffic engineering measures; (g) replacement of 285 over-aged buses and construction of depots, terminals and passenger shelters; and (h) technical assistance to assist in development planning capital programming, financial management, project monitoring and evaluation, and staff training.