HRIDAY Scheme Heritage City Development & Augmentation Yojana : hridayindia.in

Organisation : Ministry of Urban Development
Scheme Name : HRIDAY – Heritage City Development & Augmentation Yojana
Website : http://hridayindia.in/
Terms & Conditions : https://www.statusin.in/uploads/23262-HRIDAY.pdf

HRIDAY Scheme :

Scheme Statement :
Preserve and revitalise soul of the heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible, informative & secured environment.

Related : Ministry of Tourism Swadesh Darshan Scheme : www.statusin.in/23193.html

To undertake strategic and planned development of heritage cities aiming at improvement in overall quality of life with specific focus on sanitation, security, tourism, heritage revitalization and livelihoods retaining the city’s cultural identity.

Scheme Strategy :
** It is a central sector scheme with 100 percent funding coming from Central Government.
** Cities will be required to prepare City HRIDAY Plan (CHP) for the city and develop DPRs for identified projects for availing assistance under the scheme.

** The CHPs will be prepared by the HRIDAY City Anchors assigned for each city and DPRs shall be developed by agencies selected by the Cities from the empanelled list prepared by the Centre.

** The project work will be executed by PWDs/SPVs/CPSUs/State Para-statals/ Contractors of repute.

** The project duration is for 4 years starting December 2014 and ending November, 2018.
** NIUA is designated as HRIDAY Project Management Unit for the Scheme and will function as a secretariat for the National Mission Directorate.

Scheme Objectives :
The main objective of HRIDAY is to preserve the character and soul of the heritage city and facilitate inclusive heritage linked urban development by exploring various avenues including involving private sector.

Specific objectives are :
(a) Planning, development and implementation of heritage sensitive infrastructure
(b) Service delivery and infrastructure provisioning in historic city core areas.
(c) Preserve and revitalize heritage wherein tourists can connect directly with city’s unique character.

(d) 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 & delivery.

(e) 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

(f) Local capacity enhancement for inclusive heritage-based industry
(g) Create effective linkages between tourism and cultural facilities

(h) Urban heritage adaptive rehabilitation and maintenance, including appropriate technologies for historic buildings retrofitting
(i) Establish and manage effective public private partnership for adaptive urban rehabilitation.

(j) 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

(k) Making cities informative and communicative with use of modern ICT tools and making cities secure with modern surveillance and security apparatus

(l) 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).

Duration Of The Scheme :
HRIDAY strategizes its efforts like planning, development, implementation and management for ensuring the sustainable growth of selected heritage cities in partnership with State Governments. The duration of HRIDAY scheme would be for 4 years starting December 2014.

Outcomes Of Hriday Scheme :
The following are the specific outcomes envisaged under HRIDAY.
** Clean and Improved sanitized environment
** Improved basic urban infrastructure at existing and emerging tourist, religious and heritage destinations and gateways;

** Improved sanitation standards at natural and cultural tourist attractions with convenience and safety for visitors
** Properly conserved, revitalized and beautified heritage monuments
** Greater participation by local communities in tourism-related economic and livelihood activities

** Heritage resources mainstreamed with city systems and city economy.
** Improvement in the service level benchmarks indicators for urban service delivery
** Increase in the inflow of the tourist to cities

** Increase in the duration of stay of the tourist in the town
** Improvement in social safety and reduction in crime
** Substantial improvement in local economy and quality of life of its communities.