The Finance Minister has announced plans<\/span> to set up a high-level committee of planners, economists and institutions to provide recommendations on issues and policies related to the urban sector.<\/span><\/p>\n By 2047, nearly half of India\u2019s population is likely to be living in urban areas.<\/span><\/p>\n To prepare for this, orderly urban development is of critical importance, <\/span>as the \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d approach towards urban planning would not work.<\/span><\/p>\n But for orderly urban development, we need to nurture the megacities and their hinterlands to become current centres of economic growth. Further, we need to facilitate tier 2 and 3 cities to take on the mantle in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, for this purpose, the Government has set up a High Level panel comprising<\/span> urban planners, urban economists and institutions who will make recommendations on policies, capacity-building, planning, implementation and governance.<\/span><\/p>\n Firstly, <\/b>the government <\/span>will designate five institutions as centres of excellence to develop India-specific knowledge in urban planning and design and to deliver certified training in these areas. These centres will be provided funds of Rs 250 crore each.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Secondly,<\/b> the government has <\/span>announced \u2018MetroLite\u2019 and \u2018MetroNeo\u2019 technologies to provide metro rail systems at much lesser cost with similar experience in Tier-2 cities and peripheral areas of Tier-1 cities.<\/span><\/p>\n Thirdly,<\/b> the government will work with the state governments for reduction of time for land and construction approvals and promote affordable housing.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>This post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<\/b>Centre to set up high-level panel on urban policies<\/b>\u201d\u00a0<\/b>published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a02nd Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? The Finance Minister has announced plans to set up a high-level committee of planners, economists and institutions to provide recommendations on issues and policies related to the urban sector. What is the need of a High Level Panel on Urban Planning? By 2047, nearly half of India\u2019s population is likely to… Continue reading Centre to set up high-level panel on urban policies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-165953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704826062},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the need of a High Level Panel on Urban Planning?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the other steps announced in the Budget for Urban Areas?<\/b><\/h5>\n