The Urban Habitat Mission, one of the eight under the NAPCC, is the penultimate one to be cleared by the PM’s council and is intended to set in several changes in the way cities are planned and mobility planned. 

While the energy-saving building codes are already in place, they have not been implemented as they remain voluntary in character. 

The mission will set up demonstration projects across the country and provide the funds to push states to alter building byelaws and other regulations in order to move towards greener habitats. 

The implementation of the energy saving code for commercial buildings is seen as one of the low hanging fruits that the government can implement at minimal cost to the economy. At present about only 700 buildings have implemented the energy code but the Union government will now mandate that the JNNURM funds for urban development be made conditional on the changes in the byelaws facilitating the energy codes.