Cities At Crossroads: A better blueprint for the city | The Indian Express

Cities At Crossroads: A better blueprint for the city | The Indian Express

Written by Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Ayush Khare |Updated: July 31, 2019 4:29:06 pm

The writer is chairperson of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and former chairperson of the high-powered expert committee on urban infrastructure and services.

Ayush Khare is a research assistant at ICRIER.

Cities At Crossroads: A better blueprint for the city

There needs to be in place a clear roadmap for the planning of metropolitan cities.

This is a matter of grave concern as metropolitan regions are the engines of growth and gateways to the national and global economies. (Illustration by Suvajit Dey)

This column usually tries to go behind the visibly deficient state of delivery of public services in our cities and discusses possible solutions. Today, we spell out a challenge which may not be as visible as the burning landfills or flooded streets but, in some ways, is even more important. This is the challenge of metropolitan planning, which has been sorely missing in our development strategy.