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is that schemes are conceived
disjointedly, but the poor need
integrated programmes to
enable them to escape from the
clutches of the vicious circle
of poverty. The biggest hurdle
for “Housing for All by 2022”
is the availability of serviced
land for affordable housing to
the poor at suitable locations in
large cities. The solutions to the
above-mentioned problems call
for a multi-pronged strategy
including reforms in the current
system of land use zoning and
urban planning.
Smart Cities Mission
The Government of India
launched “The Smart Cities
Mission” in 2015, intending
to promote economic growth
and improve service delivery
to urban residents through the
development of ‘smart’ cities,
selected based on a national
competition. The goal of the
Mission is to achieve cities with
core infrastructure facilities main belief of the mission is that
and a decent quality of life
and undertake sustainable and
inclusive development in these
cities with the help of “Smart”
solutions. In this regard, four
models are suggested in the
Mission document: (i) City
improvement (retrofitting); (ii)
City renewal (redevelopment);
(iii) City extension (greenfield
development) and (iv) Pan-city
initiative (Mishra and Mohanty,
2017).
The Government of India has
committed significant financial
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support under the Smart Cities technology helps cut out the
Mission. It has promised to leakages and facilitate efficient
invest a total of Rs. 48,000 crores provision.
in 100 smart cities for five years
with each smart city getting NATIONAL URBAN
Rs. 100 crores annually for five POLICY
years; states/urban local bodies The Ministry of Housing & Urban
will match resources amounting Affairs, Government of India has
to Rs. 48,000 crores as per the come out with a National Urban
approved 50:50 funding pattern. Policy Framework (NUPF)-2018
These funds are to as ‘catalyst’ which outlines an integrated
to leverage funds from other and coherent approach towards
sources: internal and external. the future of urban planning in
Smart cities are expected to India. The NUPF is structured
have innovative, technologically along two lines. Firstly, at the
efficient, creative, digital, NUPF’s core lie ten sutras or
e-governed and knowledge- philosophical principles, which
powered service delivery include: (i) Cities are Clusters
systems. They would make
housing more inclusive, promote of Human Capital; (ii) Cities
mix-land use and transit- require a ‘Sense of Place’ (i.e.
oriented development (TOD) Indianness); (iii) Not static
to assist the poor. The Mission Master Plans but evolving
aimed to work on improving Ecosystems; (iv) Build for
urban governance, providing Density; (v) Public Spaces that
equitable access to service encourage Social Interaction; (vi)
delivery, and efficient physical Multi-modal Public Transport
and social infrastructure. The Backbone; (vii) Environmental
Sustainability; (viii) Financially
Figure-1: National Urban Policy Framework
Source: Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, GoI, 2018