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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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9.1 9.210 10 10

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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