Credit Rating & Municipal Bond: Credit rating work for 485 cities have been awarded and completed in 468 cities. Out of 468 cities, 163 cities have received Investible Grade Rating (IGR), including 36 cities with rating of A- and above.
Energy audit of water pumps: Field survey for energy audit has been completed in 413 cities and energy audit has been completed in 358 cities. 11,100 water pumps have been identified for replacement with energy efficiency pumps.
Replacement of streetlights with LED lights: 62.8 lakh streetlights have been replaced with LED lights out of targeted 97.9 lakh light. This is estimated to save 137.5 crore units of energy per year and reduce 11 lakh tonnes of CO2 emission per year.
Online Building Permission System (OBPS): OBPS has been made operational in 1,705 cities across the country including 439 AMRUT cities.
Capacity building: Surpassing the target of 45,000 functionaries, 52,327 functionaries and elected representatives across the country have been trained so far.
Rs.3,390 crore had been raised through Municipal Bonds during 2018-19 for upgrading urban infrastructure by 8 Mission cities (Ahmedabad, Amaravati, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Indore, Pune, Surat and Vishakhapatnam). Cities had been awarded an incentive upto Rs.26 crore (at Rs.13 crore per Rs.100 crore) for issuing municipal bonds.
