COIMBATORE: Joint Secretary of the Union Ministry of Urban Development and Project Director of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) M. Rajamani will explain at a meeting here on Wednesday the various infrastructure schemes to be implemented under the mission in more than 10 cities spread across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Puducherry.

Coimbatore Corporation Commissioner P. Muthuveeran told reporters on Tuesday that the meeting had been organised to orient city planners to the preparation of detailed project reports for major infrastructure projects. Municipal Corporations in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai in Tamil Nadu, Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi in Kerala, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, Bangalore and Mysore in Karnataka and Puducherry would get Central and State grants for the schemes.

Top officials from the local bodies in these cities would attend the meeting.

While this meeting would be held at The Residency at 9.30 a.m., another meeting on the mission for the Coimbatore Corporation would be held at the PSG College of Technology at 11.30 a.m. Besides Mr. Rajamani, Municipal Administration and Water Supply Secretary K. Dheenabandhu, Collector Neeraj Mittal and Coimbatore Mayor R. Venkatachalam would participate.

Officials from the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, representatives from voluntary organisations such as Siruthuli and the Residents' Awareness Association of Coimbatore and from the trade and industry would attend the meeting.

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