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Given Vovid-19 the paper identifies pandemic challenges in urban India, reviews urban response, assesses the response and re-imagine urban India. Now is a good time to address the weaknesses of local government and give a new look by empowering local governments so that they not only work for citizens but also respond effectively in high risk situations. Such an approach demands a paradigm shift and revisiting 74th CAA so as to establish new governance structures to empower urban local governments and by defining clear links between local governments and communities.
The Government of India has realised that innovation is the engine for the growth of prosperity and national competitiveness in the 21st century. It incentivized urban reforms linked to grants for infrastructure investments leading to innovations. In this context, paper explains India’s urbanization process. It describes three national and city-level urban innovations a reform-based National Urban Renewal Mission, Urban Knowledge Networking Program and Use of Mobile Networks for Urban Governance. Moreover, it also suggests a way forward and these will provide inputs to proposed Smart City and other urban programs in India.
Training Manual on Capacity Building of Urban Local Self Government Institutions in Punjab, CRRID: Chandigarh
Capacity Building of Urban Local Self Government Institutions in Punjab2006 •
The brief history of local governance, decentralization, management/ accounting and budgeting practices and e governance initiatives in local governments in Six European Countries and Five progressive Indian States
In the year 2015, the Government of India initiated the Smart City Mission. Mumbai- India’s financial capital metropolis was proposed and then withdrawn from the Smart City Challenge. This research paper evaluates the governance status in Mumbai and the perception of need to be a part of the Mission.
Nagarlok, Vol.XLVI, No.2, April-June, Pp. 15-36
‘Dynamics’ of Decentralized Governance in Urban India: Implications for Inclusive City Development2014 •
The vision of inclusive city building has gained widespread international recognition in recent times following the rapid urban expansion across the globe and its intense exclusionary effects. Against this backdrop the article unveils the urbanization experience in the Indian context shedding considerable light on the plightful conditions of the urban poor who often succumb to deficient policies and distortive practices. In a globally competitive environment, the cities, therefore, are faced with the formidable challenge of promoting growth with equity and social justice. In view of the growing imbalances and the grave crises in city governance, the concluding section points to plausible policy reforms and perceptual alternatives to steer the emergent changes and challenges.
For a long time, India has been a secularized country due to its long history, and its strong Constitution of 1950. Industrialization in the post-independent India has proceeded between periods of rapid industrial growth and intervals of relative stagnation. The globalization contributed to the interaction and interconnection between India and Europe and was supposed to boost the economic growth to bring India onto the world's nation's power 'stage' - or, at least, to let it lose its status as an 'emerging country'. India's urban policy approach has adopted an increasing market-oriented development paradigm with a mixed-integrated zoning policy. (Ahluwalia, I. J. 2014) UN and Europe have played a major role in this urban raise. The ability of civil society networks: NGOs, research institutes and federations to product strategies is the reason why Civil society is an attractive partner in the actualization of state 'Missions' or 'Schemes'. (Mohanty,P. 2014) However, the implementation requires an active government involvement. In 2005, JnNURM mission was launched as a Government mission to encourage fast track planned development, JnNURM included a written Reform Agenda. The social and political changing pattern generated by the shift from traditional Congress Party to Bharatiya Janata Party has been a turning point for urbanization in India in the 2010s. JnNURM was swept away by 'AMRUT' Mission and so did the approach of the pending reform agenda in 2012. (Khan, S.2014) Since 2014, when Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister, won the election, the country has faced structural changes at economic and political levels. The everlasting 'five years planning' methods have started to decline. And a new ministry appeared in 2017: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). Today, India is the second largest urban system in the world after China: indeed, the seventy world's largest urban centers are in India. The current urban policies and actions represents a 'collage' of various contrasting picture, that we identify as a draft of implicit Agenda. An agenda would enable the transformation of India in its economic as well as social tenets, in the context of present and emerging pattern of urbanization as well as its current role and contribution in economic development. To achieve these goals, India needs co-ordination, arbitration and regulation; a role that the state, currently, seems unable to fulfil alone. (Mohanty, P. 2014; Mishra 2017) At a time when India has grandiose visions for its cities, the UN-"New Urban Agenda" offers a normative framework for guiding India towards a hybridized Urban Agenda.. Keywords: India, urbanization, urban planning policies, national urban agenda, smart cities challenge
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