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the health of the people the experience of planning, extensive and modern Truck
for good or bad. In sum, it development, operation, and Terminals, Rail Terminal and
determines the “Quality of management of New Towns possibly a freight dedicated
Life” in the urban centre. has not been assiduously Airport, service and auxiliary
As Indian cities grows low recorded. The thrill of Industrial Ares, residential
but steady, aggregation and conception and planning, and other related areas of as
urban extent do not increase the zeal of development, the elf-contained town.
concurrently. Urban density difficulties of mobilizings
increases and over a period cores, the frustrations of co- The Logistictropolises are
touches in criminating levels. ordination, the innovation sin to be developed to contain a
There is a great variation institutional frame work and population of 0.1 million to
amongst different parts of the the joy of seeing the birth of start, with potential to grow
city with the traditional core the new town have all been into a medium size town of
area suffering from acutely lost to posterity. about half a million people,
high densities. forming the important nodes
Experience lost; lessons for of the new IUP. They shall
With high densities, land gotten. be the receptacles of the
for other urban activities accelerated urbanisation
becomes scarce and costly. The National Logistics Policy under the new IUP.
The availability also shrinks. offers great opportunity in
This adversely affects the building about 100 New Carry Out Institutional
provision of public utilities Towns all over the country Reforms
and services. This leads that may be called as Loigistic Institutions are important to
to lop sided development tropolises. The present 54 and translate, enable, facilitate,
and cost escalation. the additional 46 metropolitan and implement action
Economics determines urban cities, by 2050, would be the programmes on the ground
development at the cost of potential hubs envisaged which the public can perceive,
other components: social, in the NLP. From the avail and enjoy. In the absence
health and environment. present concept of “Huband of appropriate institutional
Spoke” pattern, they would framework, policies would
Build Loigistictropolises transform into a “Network remain redundant. While
(New Towns) System”. Expedience should practice without theory
Since independence, India has not override rationality. The is absurd, theory without
built several New Towns. Most Logistics Hubs should not be practice is redundant. The
of notified (non-census) towns developed as a part or adjunct institutional frame work
are in fact new towns. The of a city, with only container would include: Organisation;
functions of these new towns yards linked to the transport Monetary and Fiscal Systems;
vary widely. They include: heads. They need to be and Legal.
Administration, Industry, conceptualised and developed
Knowledge, Defence, Health, as integrated townships, Organisation: Restructure
Sports, Trade and Commerce, away from, but connected the Organisation System
Transport and Religious. to, the city. These Logistic Historically urban planning
Except for Chandigarh and tropolises need to include, and development has been the
to a little extent, Auroville, apart from container yards, domain of Local Government.
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