Think Beyond Band AidsA Economic Development, Urbanisation and Systematic Planning Scheme…
Vikram Vijayant RanaDevelopment Management Institute, Patna
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Content Layout• Introduction• City System
• Spatial Planning• Municipal Capacities• The Political Ownership Of A City• Transparency, Accountability And Citizen Participation
• ASICS (-Annual Survey of India’s City System)• Conclusions
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Introduction• We live in a world where economic development and urbanisation
are like Siamese twines.• Rapid Urbanisation does not guarantee sustained economic growth.• The good news is that policy makers and opinion leaders have
finally begun to focus on urban problem.• The band news is that we still placing band-aids when the patient
has a deep disease.• Solving the Challenges of our cities will require a ‘city-system’
framework.
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City System• Understanding and solving
the challenges of our cities will require a ‘city system’ framework.
• The urban phenomenon is the result of a complex system to play.
1. Spatial Planning
2. Municipal Capacities
3. The Political Ownership Of A City
4. Transparency, Accountability And Citizen Participation
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Spatial Planning• It is crucial to fulfil objectives of a city across economy, equity
and the environment.• India’s cities need modern spatial planning laws, planning
institutions, and adequate number of qualified town planner.
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Municipal Capacities• Scenarios:-
• Bengaluru and New York both have approx. 9 million residents.• New York employs over 4,00,000 city worker where Bengaluru has less
than 30,000.
• Problems:-• 5% of New York human recourses are qualified senior management- in
urban planning, infrastructure and so on.• But Bengaluru barely has 0.5% of its headcount as senior management. • 1% of the total fiscal wallet available in India and global avg. 7.5% .
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Comparison between two city with same population.
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• Solutions:-• We need massive injection of sustainable financing.• We need to strengthen the institution in our city on both human and
financial capacities.• Beginning with the municipality but also other civic institution such as-
• Development authority.• Water authority.• Transport authority.• Metro rail.• Police.• Fire services.• Housing authority.
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The Political Ownership Of A City• Fragmented leadership across the state govt., MLAs, the
Mayor and the city council.• We need to work towards having directly elected metropolitan
mayors as leasers of our cities.• Minimum tenure of five years for a Mayor will enable medium
term planning and execution.• In its 25th Year, the 74th Constitution Amendment needs to be
respected.
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Transparency, Accountability And Citizen Participation.• Besides public discloser and data-driven accountability for
performance and service levels• Formal platforms for citizen participation are urgently
needed.• Citizen participation has both intrinsic as well as instrumental
benefits.• Most importantly, it builds trust between citizens and
goverments.
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ASICS (-Annual Survey of India’s City System)
Indian cities London New York
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Score of Superior city system
Substantially Superior Quality of Life On the scale of
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Conclusions• ASICS provides a comprehensive diagnostic of the health of
our cities and also a reform agenda that accompanies the same.
• State government can create time-bound, measurable blueprints for our cities that incorporates these reform agendas.
• And we have to set accountability to the employee, specially to govt. employee.
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