{"id":240816,"date":"2023-05-03T20:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240816"},"modified":"2023-05-03T20:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:58:35","slug":"jcbs-not-the-answer-on-destruction-of-unauthorised-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jcbs-not-the-answer-on-destruction-of-unauthorised-colonies\/","title":{"rendered":"JCBs Not The Answer \u2013 on destruction of unauthorised colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article <strong>\u201cJCBs Not The Answer\u201d,<\/strong> published in Times of India on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> May 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus Topic<\/strong>: GS Paper 1 \u2013 Urbanisation and associated issues<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, unauthorised houses were demolished around Tughlaqabad forte area. This demolition depicts the failure of urban governance in Indian cities.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption of urban governance enable residents to obtain government identification and voting rights but not legal property titles.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is not the issue of Delhi alone, urban centers, including Mumbai and Bengaluru are also facing the same issue.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the issues in urban governance of Delhi and other cities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Although India\u2019s first urban master plan was designed for Delhi in 1962, it has failed to check the unauthorised proliferation of the \u201csilent sprawl\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Master plans of Delhi, and other big cities were Unrealistic. Today, the Delhi Development Authority estimates that at least 5 million live in unauthorised colonies spread over 175 sq. km.<\/p>\n<p>Despite drives to regularise the unauthorised colonies in cities, they face regular threat of clearance drives by municipal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Inhabitants of these colonies are integral to the city\u2019s economic and social life. Relocating them miles from their workplace is cruel when Indian cities have a poor public transport system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cJCBs Not The Answer\u201d, published in Times of India on 3rd May 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 1 \u2013 Urbanisation and associated issues News: Recently, unauthorised houses were demolished around Tughlaqabad forte area. This demolition depicts the failure of urban governance in Indian cities. Corruption of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jcbs-not-the-answer-on-destruction-of-unauthorised-colonies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JCBs Not The Answer \u2013 on destruction of unauthorised colonies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10496],"class_list":["post-240816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700779526,"cached_date":1704814440},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240816","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}