About CITIIS 2.0 

• • The Union Cabinet has approved the City Investments to Innovate, Integrate and Sustain 2.0 (CITIIS 2.0) initiative which aims to promote integrated waste management and climate-oriented reform actions.
  • CITIIS 2.0 is a programme conceived by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The programme will be implemented in 18 cities which would be selected based on a competition.
  • CITIIS 2.0 aims to support competitively selected projects promoting circular economy with a focus on integrated waste management at the city level, climate-oriented reform actions at the state level, and institutional strengthening and knowledge dissemination at the national level.

• In a circular economy, products are designed for durability, reuse and recyclability, and materials for new products come from old products. As much as possible, everything is reused, remanufactured, recycled back into a raw material, used as a source of energy, or as a last resort, disposed of.

• The programme would span over a period of four years from 2023-2027.
• The first phase of CITIIS was launched in 2018 with projects in 12 cities namely Agartala, Amaravati, Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Dehradun, Hubbali-Dharwad, Kochi, Puducherry, Surat, Ujjain and Visakhapatnam.

Why in News?

• This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing And Urban Affairs in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1945495