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POLICY REVIEW
TOWARDS A NEW “INDIA URBANISATION
PROF. N
RANGANATHAN
“It is prudent and important
to formulate, enunciate and
implement a comprehensive
new urbanisation policy to
guide, direct and facilitate
urbanization and urban
growth to contribute to
national goals and objectives.
The new India Urbanisation
Policy-2023 (IUP-2023) needs
to be multi-dimensional.”
Professor Ranganathan (jayaranga8@ the National GDP, they are
gmail.com) is former Professor of
Transport Planning and Dean of
Studies, SPA, Delhi.
POLICY-2023”
The paper highlights the need for of activities, exchange, and
a new urbanization policy 2023
movement, emit high volume
in the context of India’s urban of carbon, they are critical in
development; and outlines its fulfilling the commitment.
possible components. The paper
lays out a vision for the new India is experiencing
demographic transformation
urbanization policy – from policy, from predominantly rural to
planning to its implementation predominantly urban. India’s
mechanism.
urbanization is described in
INTRODUCTION many ways: rapid, massive
and even reluctant. Rational
India has Resolved and Planning, Development,
Committed- resolved to Operation and Management
be developed by 2047; (PDOM) of urban areas call
and committed to Net for concerted attention and
Zero Carbon Emission by action. Unfortunately, the
2070. Both are critical and pyramid of Urban PDOM is
arduous. It is now the duty inverted: very little planning,
and responsibility of all slightly better Development,
stakeholders– Governments, struggle with Operation and
Industry, Academia, Service exhaustive Management.
Providers and above all Each succeeding layer
the People to organise their needs to tackle the residual
thoughts and actions towards problems left by the previous
fulfilment of the above resolve layer before attending to its
and commitment. As urban own sphere of action. The
areas are centres of production result is the exasperating
and consumption of Goods and frustrating failures
and Services; generators of of management measures
Economic Momentum; and to resolve the issues. The
contribute a large share of pyramid needs to be inverted
and made to stand on a broad
key to achieve there solution. base of Planning tapering
As urban areas, as centres gently to its apex.
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