METROPOLITISATION OF INDIAN ECONOMY: LESSONS IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT

R. N. Sharma and A. Shaban

The IUP Journal of Governance and Public Policy, 2006, vol. I, issue 2, 17-35

Abstract: India’s urban planning, in terms of a balanced approach towards dispersal of economic activity and deflection of swelling population away from a few ‘economically strategic’ mega-cities, has by and large been a non-starter. Five Year Plans, though paid lip-service to such a strategy, never allocated even 2% funds for achieving a balanced urban growth. Cities and towns were left to be managed by their ever-starved municipal bodies and indifferent state governments. Ad hoc grants were made available to a few mega-cities only when their infrastructure reached a breaking point. With the opening up of the Indian economy to international competition and globalisation, a paradigm shift is visible in policy planning of the Government where a few ‘economically strategic’ large cities have become targets of mega-projects for transforming them into ‘world-class’ cities. Schemes like IDSMT and GEMS—for dispersal of economy and population—are almost done away with due to the thrust on ‘metropolitisation of the Indian economy’. The present paper probes its relevance to a ‘balanced’ and ‘sustainable’ urban development.

Date: 2006
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