The radicals can not win the urban fringe: Expert
Vinod Tewari, director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, called for radical changes in planning and appropriate legislative changes to some order in urban development throughout the country.
Speaking time on a three-day geographers “seminar entitled” the management of urban areas on the outskirts of Indian cities “, Wednesday, Tewari, the absence of a comprehensive regional approach, poor coordination between agencies development and lack of resources had resulted coincidence that the expansion of cities in the country.
This has been on the fringes of villages in urban slums “is characterized by a shift in large part by the non-agricultural to mixed use, urban areas, environmental degradation and inadequate infrastructure, he added .
In recent years, cities such as Pune, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, the establishment of retail centres, Multiplex, IT-parks, parks and Biotechnology of special economic zones, even without the growth in the areas infrastructure, Tewari noted.
Urban is not decisive on the data on modern technologies such as geographic information system.
“After full and accurate information about the city is a must and lack of resources for major bottlenecks in the development project,” he.
Furnishings, or “planning würdigkeit” in the absence of skilled and trained people, he added.
“The main objectives of urban management in the margin of control of the non-development, controlling urban sprawl, protecting farmland from conversion to non-agricultural purposes, the protection of economic and social interests of the rural population, Dispergier activities parent companies of the city to other cities and basic infrastructure and preservation of environmental quality, “the scene NiAu mentioned.
Tewari has asked for the formulation of a policy of urban development (urban land, including policies), changes in the municipal elections, town planning, agriculture, acquisition and other acts.
It also recommended the establishment of the U-Bahn and the development of neighbourhood committees, to improve coordination between organisations involved in planning and municipal development and implementation of reforms for the production of these facilities worthy of credit.
The seminar, organized by the Indian Institute of Geographers and the Section of Geography, University of Pune, was P Nag, general study of technicians from India, Jaymala Diddee, the outgoing director of the department of geography and science renowned VG Bhide.