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THEME PAPER
for the Environment Mission. Capacity Building. An MoU INTEGRATED
Intelligent, smart, mobile has been signed between APPROACH FOR
based digital platforms can National Remote Sensing INCLUSIVE AND LOW
significantly enhance the Centre (NRSC), Department CARBON CITY
citizen participation in the of Space and Ministry of
LiFE Mission on a sustainable Housing and Urban Affairs The cornerstone of making a
basis. for Geo-database Creation. city inclusive and low carbon
is to adopt an integrated
INDIA’S URBAN These Missions aim at low approach towards the
MISSIONS carbon urbanisation and the vulnerable (street children,
provision of housing and women, elderly and disabled),
In India, its 8000 cities are infrastructure services like the conservation of the natural
the engines of growth, water supply, sanitation and resources and sustainable,
as well as manifest stark solid waste management,
inequities and environmental efficient urban transport, low carbon services like
degradation. They house affordable housing for drainage, water supply,
air, sewerage, solid waste
largely marginalised the poor, 24x7 power management, transportation
communities, which include supply, IT connectivity and and energy. The planning
those below poverty line e-governance. These missions
(about 1/6 ), slum dwellers emphasize upon participatory typology (Figure 1) can be
th
(about 1/6 ), street children planning and governance, segregated as per the domain
th
(Governments at National,
(about 1 %), unemployed livelihoods, connectivity and State & Municipal level,
(about 1/10 ), homeless ( 1 providing better education, Development Authorities,
th
to 2%), street vendors (about healthcare, urban safety and
2%) , elderly (7.5%), disabled smart services, which are PPP, etc.), levels (Local,
(2%), etc. About 100 million intelligent, interconnected Zonal, Master Plan, Policy
Plan/Regional Plan) and time
working women and about and instrumented. frame (short, medium and
56 million widows in India
face the chronic shortage of Figure 1: Typologies of Plans for Integrated Development
safe and affordable housing.
In this context during 2014-
2022, the Government of
India launched several urban
missions, viz. Smart Cities
Mission, Atal Mission for
Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation (AMRUT),
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana,
Heritage City Development
and Augmentation Yojana
(HRIDAY) and Swachh Bharat
Mission (SBM). The plans for
these missions including 500
cities under AMRUT have
adopted the technique of Geo-
database Creation, GIS based
Master Plan Formulation and Source: E.F.N. Ribeiro (2003)
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