Urban 2.0: How to Build Future-ready Indian Cities with a ‘Whole of Society’ Approach
3 years, 2 months ago

Urban 2.0: How to Build Future-ready Indian Cities with a ‘Whole of Society’ Approach

News 18  

Urbanisation is not a mere consequence of faster growth but also an instrument for promoting socio-economic development. resulted in a milestone report on ‘Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India’ that was recently released in the public domain. As of today, there are three pillars of capacities of urban planning in India—the public sector, the private sector and the academia. Moreover, the ‘town planning’ function often gets overshadowed by the building plans’ approvals at urban local bodies. As of now, quite ironically, it is not the qualified planners but graduates from other streams, not trained in ‘planning skills and principles’, who provide services in the urban planning domain.

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Only 219 cities with over 1 lakh population have their master plans notified: Govt
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Only 219 cities with over 1 lakh population have their master plans notified: Govt

Hindustan Times  

Only 219 out of the 500 cities with more than one lakh population as per 2011 census have their master plans notified and for another 158 such cities the master plan is at a draft stage, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Monday. he master plan for Delhi 2041 drafted in 2021 is yet to be notified by the …

Urban populace exploding, should Indian cities run like multinational corporations?
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Urban populace exploding, should Indian cities run like multinational corporations?

India Today  

How should our cities develop over the next five decades and beyond? Well-managed urbanisation is not a choice but imperative for the future of our country.” The high-level committee last month submitted its second report of recommendations for urban planning reforms, titled ‘Pathways to Amrit Kaal: Envisioning and realising a new future for Indian cities’. The options for enabling financing …

Centre sets up 5 groups to recommend changes to transform management of cities
2 months ago

Centre sets up 5 groups to recommend changes to transform management of cities

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The union ministry of housing and urban affairs on Wednesday formed five new working groups to recommend reforms that will transform how Indian cities are managed. A view of a colony at Mithapur Badapur in New Delhi The five groups will work on different aspects of reforms at political level, reforms at administrative level, redefining the role of …

Realising the rural-urban continuum
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Realising the rural-urban continuum

The Hindu  

This century is supposed to be India’s urban century due not only to massive demographic shifts, with the country soon becoming more urban than rural, but also to the demand for the infrastructure required to support these large shifts. Some of these financial constraints arise from the tied nature of grants linked to centrally OPINION | A new sense of …

Spain’s Ambassador to India discusses AI’s influence on governance, importance of urban planning
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Spain’s Ambassador to India discusses AI’s influence on governance, importance of urban planning

The Hindu  

Juan Antonio March, diplomat and Spain’s Ambassador to India, emphasized the urgent need for nations to unite and collaborate on global challenges, particularly in the face of unprecedented technological advancements, at a discussion on ‘AI: Architect of Politics’ at The Bangalore International Centre. Noting that an ignorant attitude to utilizing technological advancements effectively can hinder a country’s development, especially in …

‘Core debilities’ reducing efficiency of improving infra in Indian cities: Report
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Core debilities’ reducing efficiency of improving infra in Indian cities: Report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: While income levels are rising in cities with improved public services and implementation of large-scale construction projects backed by central funding under various schemes and missions, persistent “core debilities” are reducing the efficacy of these positive initiatives, pointed out the ‘India Infrastructure Report 2023-Urban Planning and Development’ released Monday. The basic debilities, said Morris, the editor of IIR-2023 …

To save flooded cities, recast urban planning
1 year, 5 months ago

To save flooded cities, recast urban planning

Hindustan Times  

Excessive rain and severe waterlogging in the Delhi national capital region over the weekend put the focus back on infrastructure failures in Indian metropolises. Urban planning has become the focus of persistent public lament in recent years; in unpacking the nature of planning, can we find the seeds of a new planning imagination to address the crises cities face? Furthermore, …

Book review | The Indian Metropolis: An account of India’s challenged sprawling urban spaces
1 year, 7 months ago

Book review | The Indian Metropolis: An account of India’s challenged sprawling urban spaces

Firstpost  

Feroze Varun Gandhi, a third-term Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha should be admired for his unwavering focus on India across rural and urban spaces alike. To his credit is now a new remarkable “The Indian Metropolis” that systematically deconstructs India’s urban spaces and reflects on the serious challenges confronting their aspirations for empowerment. Written with an aim to begin …

Every state needs an urban anchor
1 year, 9 months ago

Every state needs an urban anchor

Hindustan Times  

After Independence, when India began formulating its short- and long-term planning and development goals, setting up proper systems for urbanisation was difficult. Following recommendations have emerged from these reports on enhancing the capacities of urban local bodies: Capacity-building should be unified under a single window capacity-building schemes Focus on institutional as well as individual capacity building Address the demand side …

Well-planned cities will be key to India\'s growth: Modi
1 year, 10 months ago

Well-planned cities will be key to India\'s growth: Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: Asserting that India’s position in the world would have been completely different if 75 planned cities had been developed since Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that well-planned cities will determine the fate of the country. Addressing a webinar on the subject of "Urban Development with a Focus on Planning", the sixth in a series of …

BJP Mayors’ conclave | Cities cannot be developed with election-centric approach, says PM Modi
2 years, 3 months ago

BJP Mayors’ conclave | Cities cannot be developed with election-centric approach, says PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday stressed on development with a holistic approach to plan cities and urban spaces while addressing Mayors of BJP ruled urban bodies in a conference held in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar. He said that urban development cannot be done with just a single approach of winning elections as the representatives must not become election-centric but instead …

India needs a new urban deal
2 years, 4 months ago

India needs a new urban deal

Hindustan Times  

The future of Indian cities has played out in horrifying detail over the past 48 hours. The toxic combination of poor urban planning, rampant flouting of rules, lax governance hindered further by red tape, and intensifying effects of the climate crisis has brought our cities to their knees. But repeated flooding and increasing vagaries in climate patterns mean that the …

Centre sets up expert panel to train urban planners
2 years, 8 months ago

Centre sets up expert panel to train urban planners

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Centre has constituted an eight-member expert committee to prepare a strategy for training urban planners working with state governments and local bodies in emerging concepts. The ministry has decided to plan two capacity building programmes, a five-day course and a month-long session, to train urban planners As part of the urban planning reforms announced by the finance …

Urban 2.0: How to build future-ready Indian cities with a ‘whole of society’ approach
3 years, 2 months ago

Urban 2.0: How to build future-ready Indian cities with a ‘whole of society’ approach

Firstpost  

Indian model of urban planning is heavily borrowed from the American models. The result of consultations with relevant ministeries, think tanks, academia, urban practitioners etc resulted in a milestone report on ‘Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India’ that was recently released in the public domain. As of today, there are three pillars of capacities of urban planning in India—the …

Finding the Missing Pieces of Urban Planning Puzzle in India
3 years, 2 months ago

Finding the Missing Pieces of Urban Planning Puzzle in India

News 18  

Planned urban development in a nation depends on its capacities and systems. NITI Aayog constituted a high-level inter-ministerial advisory committee chaired by Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog, on ‘Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India’ in October 2020. In fact, the committee focused on mechanisms to create capacities that could propel India to become ‘Aatma Nirbhar’ in the …

Policy-making an evolving process, say experts
3 years, 4 months ago

Policy-making an evolving process, say experts

The Hindu  

MIT World Peace University’s School of Public Policy and The Hindu Education Plus hosted a webinar on Thursday on Understanding Public Policy and its Career Prospects. Elaborating on public policy, Narendra Jadhav, Rajya Sabha MP, economist, educationist and author, said, “It is a government chosen course of action with three key dimensions — definition of problems, goals the government would …

Delhi: A feel good master plan isn’t enough
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi: A feel good master plan isn’t enough

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi Development Authority has published the draft Master Plan of Delhi for 2041 for comments and suggestions. There are four important checkpoints to ensure the implementation of a master plan, and the MPD-2041 should be put through this scrutiny: Learning from past failures, planning with specific spatial proposals, planning with a realistic budget, and finally, developing a robust implementation …

Shaping India’s urban future
3 years, 10 months ago

Shaping India’s urban future

Hindustan Times  

The Centre, on Thursday, released the rankings of the Ease of Living Index 2020 for cities with a population of more than a million and those with less than a million people. Of the 111 cities that participated in the exercise, Bengaluru emerged as the top performer, followed by Navi Mumbai, Greater Mumbai and Delhi among the bigger cities, while …

Thinking national, acting local
4 years, 9 months ago

Thinking national, acting local

The Hindu  

The attack by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has highlighted, once again, both the bad shape of the Indian economy and the precariousness in the lives of millions of people. Any planning institution in a federal and democratic system faces two basic challenges when it comes to performing a long-term role — a constitutional challenge, and the challenge of competence. The constitutional …

Fixing India’s cities needs cutting the Gordian Knot: Failure, inaction are roadblocks to leveraging urbanisation for good
4 years, 11 months ago

Fixing India’s cities needs cutting the Gordian Knot: Failure, inaction are roadblocks to leveraging urbanisation for good

Firstpost  

The Government of India needs to build whole-of-system capacity for urban transformation, ensuring that all urban actors learn about complexity and understand the city as a ‘system of systems’. While all Five-Year Plans tinkered with the urban sector, a radical shift had been made in 1948, when the new Ministry of Health, acting on the recommendations of the ‘Health Survey …

Dearth of planners hits KCR’s urban uplift plan
5 years, 7 months ago

Dearth of planners hits KCR’s urban uplift plan

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: While Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao dreams of developing urban areas in the state on par with New York, London, and San Francisco, he fails to take into account the dearth of planning experts in the Directorate of Town and Country Planning department. While about 3.5 crore people reside in urban areas, including six corporations and 142 municipalities, not …

A Comprehensive National Urban Policy for India: A Roadmap to Sustainable Growth
6 years, 10 months ago

A Comprehensive National Urban Policy for India: A Roadmap to Sustainable Growth

Live Mint  

India needs a comprehensive national urban policy to address its urbanization challenges. The government launched the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (Amrut) to tackle these issues. However, a national urban policy is crucial to provide a coherent framework for urban development. It should outline the importance and objectives of cities, highlight key enablers, cross-cutting principles, desired outputs and …

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