{"id":254327,"date":"2023-08-01T20:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=254327"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:26:31","slug":"not-going-to-down-urbanisation-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/not-going-to-down-urbanisation-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Not going to down \u2013 urbanisation in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cNot going to down\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d <\/strong>on 1st August 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1- Urbanisation<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Challenges faced by emerging urban centres<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– The surge in India\u2019s daily mean rainfall since the last week of June again showed up the poor state of urban India\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges related to urbanisation in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Smaller urban centres<\/strong> are facing more challenges. In emerging urban areas, infrastructure <\/strong>doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

As per Census 2011<\/strong>, there were 7,933 urban settlements<\/strong>.\u00a0 As per Niti Aayog report in 2021, <\/strong>about 65% of these settlements <\/strong>didn\u2019t have a master plan. Almost half of them continue to be governed as rural entities.<\/p>\n

What are the root causes behind these challenges?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First, states have not followed the true essence of the 74th constitutional amendment<\/strong>. It provides for the transfer of the urban planning function<\/strong> to an elected local government.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the insufficient delegation of powers<\/strong> has resulted in master plans<\/strong> losing touch with reality. They do not align with the evolving nature of urban settlements. These plans lack flexibility and overly focus on zoning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Master plans fail to consider the informal nature of India’s urban employment market. <\/strong>Consequently, zoning plans encounter unforeseen growth of clusters linked to informal jobs.<\/p>\n

What is the importance of urban areas?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

GOI estimated that urbanisation contributed to almost 60% of GDP. Almost 75% of the population increase by 2036<\/strong> will be due to urban growth.<\/p>\n

Way forward- <\/strong><\/p>\n

Master plans<\/strong> play a crucial role in improving the urban living standards. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Achieving this goal involves addressing two key aspects. Firstly, political power needs to be decentralised<\/strong> to urban local governments.<\/p>\n

Political executives should have greater ownership and influence over master plans.<\/strong> This involvement can bring a dose of practicality and realism<\/strong> to the planning process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cNot going to down\u201d published in \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 1st August 2023. Syllabus: GS1- Urbanisation Relevance: Challenges faced by emerging urban centres News– The surge in India\u2019s daily mean rainfall since the last week of June again showed up the poor state of urban India\u2019s… Continue reading Not going to down \u2013 urbanisation in India<\/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":[263,264,10496],"class_list":["post-254327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-society","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254327","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=254327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}