Summary
Contents
Subject index
Re-visioning Indian Cities probes the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) right from its inception to its present-day avatar. The book significantly adds to the knowledge base on the urban history of India.
Commencing with a historical background of the JNNURM, the book traces the evolution of public policy in India on urban growth. In the process it provides an understanding of the complex urban issues and examines whether the JNNURM is a project response or a policy response to these problems.
The rationale behind the choice of the cities covered by the Mission, the scope and coverage of the work undertaken and the progress till date are extensively discussed. The formidable problems of mega-city governance and the difficulties of correlating rural and urban development at the district level are reviewed.
Dealing with District Planning
Dealing with District Planning
Long History
District-level planning has been a preoccupation in this country for long. Even before Independence, district boards were regarded as a useful forum for considering administration and development issues. As part of the Panchayati Raj set-up, different states had provided various types of arrangements for planning and coordination of development programmes at the district level. Initially it was expected that the zilla parishads, regarded as a successor to the district development boards in the pre-Independence period, would play a role in this task. In Maharashtra, for example, the zilla parishads grew rapidly in strength and became powerful bodies in administering government-funded programmes. By 1962, a new leadership, as distinct from the state level and based on zilla parishads, ...
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