Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu to Chair the Governing Council
Meeting in Nairobi from today
Shri Naidu also to chair Bureau meeting of Asia Pacific Ministers’
Conference on Housing & UD
India has been unanimously
elected as the President of the UN-Habitat, an organ of the United Nations’
Organisation (UNO) that promotes socially and environmentally sustainable human
settlements across the world, after 10 years. UN-Habitat reports to the United
Nations General Assembly.
Further to today’s election,
Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu will
chair the four day meeting of the 58 member Governing Council of UN-Habitat in
Nairobi, Kenya from today. Shri Naidu will preside over the deliberations of
the Governing Council of UN-Habitat for the next two years. Since the UN-Habitat came into being in 1978, It is only the third time that India has been elected to lead this important organization
after 2007 and 1988.
As an inter-governmental policy
making and decision making body, the Governing Council of UN-Habitat seeks to
promote integral and comprehensive approach to human settlements, assist the countries
and regions in addressing human settlement problems and strengthen cooperation
among all countries on human settlement issue.
The theme of the 26th
Meeting of the Governing Council to be chaired by Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu from
today is “Opportunities for effective
implementation of the New Urban Agenda” with focus on inclusive, sustainable
and adequate housing for a better future and planning and financing sustainable urbanization and
integrated human settlements. The New Urban Agenda was adopted by the world
community at Quito, Ecuador last year.
Shri Venakiah Naidu will also
chair the Bureau Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Ministers’ Conference on Housing
and Urban Development beginning in Nairobi today.
Shri Venkaiah Naidu thanked the
member countries of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat for reposing faith in
India and electing as the President of the Governing Council for the next two
years.
Addressing the Governing Council
of UN-Habitat, Shri Naidu has stressed on the need to reorient urban planning
and execution strategies to ensure dignity of living and sufficient means of
living for people in the context of rapid urbanization, particularly, in
developing countries.
Shri
Naidu elaborated on the integrated,
inclusive and sustainable urban development model of India through
various new missions like Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation (AMRUT), Smart City Mission, Swachh Bharat Mission and Pradhan
Mantri Awas Yojana. He said these missions are addressing deficits in different
kinds of infrastructure including
affordable housing in a convergence mode.Courtesy:pib.nic.in
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