Which one of the following is not a thrust area of the 'Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)'?

Q: What is the answer to CAPF 2022 Paper I Q92?

C. Correct — C, Motorized urban transport and capacity building. The question asks which is NOT a thrust area, and the Mission's own guidelines of June 2015 settle it. AMRUT's five thrust areas are water supply; sewerage facilities and septage management; storm water drains to reduce flooding; 'pedestrian, non-motorized and public transport facilities, parking spaces'; and enhancing amenity value by creating and upgrading green spaces, parks and recreation centres, especially for children. Transport enters the list in its non-motorised and public form, and capacity building is a separate Mission component rather than a thrust area at all — so option (c) is wrong twice over.

(a)Water supply
(b)Storm water drainage to reduce flooding
(c)Motorized urban transport and capacity building
(d)Green spaces and park

Answer

Why

Correct — C, Motorized urban transport and capacity building. The question asks which is NOT a thrust area, and the Mission's own guidelines of June 2015 settle it. AMRUT's five thrust areas are water supply; sewerage facilities and septage management; storm water drains to reduce flooding; 'pedestrian, non-motorized and public transport facilities, parking spaces'; and enhancing amenity value by creating and upgrading green spaces, parks and recreation centres, especially for children. Transport enters the list in its non-motorised and public form, and capacity building is a separate Mission component rather than a thrust area at all — so option (c) is wrong twice over.

Why the others are wrong

(a)Water supply — Water supply is the first thrust area named in the guidelines, and it takes the largest share of AMRUT spending.
(b)Storm water drainage to reduce flooding — Storm water drains to reduce flooding is the third thrust area, worded almost exactly as the option puts it.
(d)Green spaces and park — Green spaces and parks form the fifth thrust area — enhancing the amenity value of cities by creating and upgrading green spaces, parks and recreation centres, especially for children.

Concept

The Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation was launched on 25 June 2015 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and covered about 500 cities. Unlike its predecessor JNNURM it funds basic infrastructure rather than showpiece projects, and it pairs that funding with a set of urban-governance reforms that states must carry out to draw the incentive money.

The Mission is built in layers, and the question turns on keeping them apart. Thrust areas are the five service categories projects must fall into. Mission components are the broader heads — capacity building and reform among them — under which the Mission operates. A candidate who reads capacity building as a thrust area has merged the two layers. As of the 2022 exam AMRUT 2.0, launched in October 2021, had already shifted the emphasis to universal water supply coverage and to recycling used water.

Key facts

AMRUT was launched on 25 June 2015 under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, covering about 500 cities.
The transport thrust area is pedestrian, non-motorised and public transport facilities and parking spaces — motorised transport is not in it.
Capacity building and reform are Mission components, not thrust areas.
AMRUT 2.0 was launched in October 2021 with universal water supply coverage as its central aim.

The five thrust areas as the 2015 guidelines list them

i→Water supply.

ii→Sewerage facilities and septage management.

iii→Storm water drains to reduce flooding.

iv→Pedestrian, non-motorized and public transport facilities, parking spaces.

v→Enhancing amenity value of cities by creating and upgrading green spaces, parks and recreation centers, especially for children.

Row iv is where the question is decided — the word is non-motorized.

Study next

AMRUT 2.0 and its water-supply and recycling targetsThe Smart Cities Mission and how its scope differs from AMRUTPradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) and the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban)JNNURM and why it was replacedUrban-governance reforms tied to central mission funding

Common traps

Reading the transport thrust area as covering motorised transport; the guidelines say pedestrian, non-motorised and public.
Promoting capacity building from a Mission component to a thrust area.
Confusing AMRUT with the Smart Cities Mission, launched in the same period.

As which item is not a thrust area, as the launch year, or as which ministry runs the Mission.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
AMRUT is implemented by which Union Ministry?
- (a)Ministry of Rural Development
- (b)Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- (c)Ministry of Jal Shakti
- (d)Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Answer(b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs — the Mission was launched under it on 25 June 2015.
practice — not a real PYQ
Under AMRUT, transport-related projects are eligible only if they involve
- (a)elevated expressways
- (b)pedestrian, non-motorized and public transport facilities and parking spaces
- (c)purchase of city buses of any kind
- (d)metro rail extensions
Answer(b) pedestrian, non-motorized and public transport facilities and parking spaces — the wording of the fourth thrust area in the Mission guidelines.