Urban Governance and Management : Indian Initiatives
Contents: Preface. I. Urbanisation and governance: 1. Urbanisation in India: the emerging pattern/B.N. Singh. 2. Municipal governance in India in the 21 century/Abhijit Datta. 3. E-governance for citizen friendly civic administration: the case of \'Saukaryam\'/Sanjay Jajlu. II. Local government finance: 4. Municipal finance: the experience of bonds/Chetan Vaidya and Hitesh Vaidya. 5. Municipal accounting reforms: status and road ahead/Ravikant Joshi. 6. Property tax reforms in Andhra Pradesh/M. Prasada Rao. III. City planning and regulation: 7. Master plan concept: constraints and prospects/D.S. Meshram. 8. Planned sub-cities: the case of Dwarka, New Delhi/S.P. Bansal. 9. Dynamics of interaction in the peri-urban interface/Robert Brook, Sangeetha Purushothaman and Sinduja Krishnan. 10. Remote sensing applications in urban planning: an overview/Mahavir. IV. Shelter, poverty and basic services: 11. Housing in India: status, policy and interventions/Ramakrishna Nallathiga. 12. Transformation of housing policy in India: the trend towards market mechanisms/P.S.N. Rao. 13. Changing scenario of housing for the urban poor in Indian cities/Neelima Risbud. 14. Giving voice to the poor in municipal planning: learning from Andhra Pradesh urban service for the poor/Banashree Banerjee. 15. Housing and settlements: issues of the fishing community in India/Subir Saha and Rahul Kumar Bysack. 16. Earthquake resistant building design and construction/K.T. Gurumukhi. V. Urban infrastructure: 17. Norms and standards for basic urban infrastructure and services/Mukesh P. Mathur. 18. Managing drinking water in Indian cities: a comparative perspective/Pooja Chowdhary. 19. Inter-organizational management: a case study of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board/Srilakshmi Shanmugam. 20. Proactive strategy for wastewater management for urban settlements/Subir Paul. 21. Solid waste management in metropolitan cities: the case of Mangalore/U. Arabi. 22. Traffic and transportation problems in metropolitan cities: the case of Delhi/P.K. Sarkar, Saikat Bose and Pritha Ghosh. 23. Citizen report cards on urban services--an aid to public accountability/Samuel Paul. VI. Urban heritage: 24. Hesitating in Hyderabad: urban heritage conservation in India/S.P. Shorey. 25. Our civic heritage: need for conservation/Narayani Gupta. VII. Sustainability of human settlements: 26. Security concerns in metropolitan cities/Shovan K. Saha. 27. Peri-urban health care: a paradox of urbanisation/Kalyan K. Ganguly. 28. Sustainable urban communities/A. Ravindra. Index.
"For the first time in the history of literature on urban development in India, this book is a comprehensive compilation of articles authored by renowned scholars in various areas of specialisation. The book covers virtually the entire gamut of issues related to the urban sector in India viz. urbanisation, urban governance, e-governance, municipal finance and property taxation, municipal bonds, accounting reforms, master plans, new towns, peri-urban interface, remote sensing applications and GIS, housing policy, disasters, slums and urban poverty, urban services, water and solid waste management, traffic and transportation management, public accountability, civic heritage, security concerns, health care and sustainability.
The articles encompass the state-of-art in each of the above areas, the problems as well as the initiatives taken to address them.
This book is a valuable reading material for urban administrators, town planners, architects, civil engineers, urban managers, urban designers, social scientists, environmentalists and students of urban development." (jacket)
