3 Contents About this Issue ...........................................................................4 Participatory Urban Governance – the Issue of Elite Capture in Delhi Editorial .......................................................................................5 Debolina Kundu .........................................................................85 Bangalore-Mysore Metro Region: The Possible Emerging scenario under JNNURM Methods and Approaches – JNNURM Mission Monideep Chatopadhyay ........................................................91 JNNURM: Towards Integrated Spatial Planning Envisioning the Mega city: Visions of Mega Buildings or M Subash Chandira .....................................................................7 Building the Mega Visions? Yatin Pandya ..............................................................................93 Robust City Development Plan: Imperative for Achieving JNNURM Goals Amitava Basu ................................................................................9 Methods and Approaches – NURM Issues in Cities with Heritage National Urban Renewal Mission: Potential to Strengthen Local Governance Two Good Ideas do not become Too Good Ideas Binoy Acharya ........................................................................ 15 Sathya Prakash Varanashi ........................................................98 Beyond JNNURM: An Approach for Civil Society Historic Core City Development: Musings on the Dr. Ravikant Joshi ......................................................................21 Eve of JNNURM Sharvey Dhongde .....................................................................101 JNNURM: Transforming Urban Government, Governance and Citizenship Future to Ujjain’s Heritage: JNNURM Initiative Swati Ramanathan ....................................................................27 Meera Ishwar Dass ...................................................................107 Urban Renewal Mission in Mysore City Methods and Approaches – States and Cities GSV Suryanarayana Murthy ..................................................115 The Impact of JNNURM in Andhra Pradesh Heritage Conservation in Pune: Issues and Actions Veena Ish and Srinivas Chery Vedala ....................................31 Narendra Dengle ......................................................................121 Renewal of Urban North East: Issues and Imperatives Assessment of JNNURM in Goa: Case Study of Panaji Binayak Choudhury .................................................................37 Poonam Verma Mascarenhas and Ashish K. Sinai Rege ................................................................129 JNNURM : Hope for Urban Renewal in Jharkhand Towns Ajay Khare...................................................................................43 Jaipur Heritage Management Plan: A Preview DRONAH and JVF ...................................................................139 Chattisgarh: Rejoicing in Rebirth Khatibullah Sheikh.....................................................................49 City Development Plan: The Case of Varanasi Navneet Raman ........................................................................143 Local Governance and Development: The Kerala Experience Sunny George .............................................................................55 Sustainable Solutions The Way Forward for Urban Development in Tamil Nadu G Dattatri ....................................................................................61 Addressing Sustainability through Good Governance P Anuradha and Vivek Misra ................................................150 Methods and Approaches – Metropolitan and Mega Cities Whose Sacred Heritage? Amita Baig .................................................................................161 Planning and Governance in Metropolitan Cities in the Context of JNNURM Events .........................................................................................167 B N Singh .....................................................................................69 Glossary ....................................................................................167 City Development Plan (CDP): How Innovative is the Concept? –A Study of Kolkata Situation Sibabrata Halder........................................................................75 4 About this Issue Chief Editor Shikha Jain Board of Editors Ajay Khare This special issue is about rapid urbanisation, need for urban renewal, urban Anuradha Nambiar governance, historic city cores, facilities for the urban poor, participatory Cheena Kanwal planning and the mammoth mission that covers this all – the JNNURM. Kewal Khanna Prabha Prabhakar Bhardwaj Introduced about a year back, the mission has become a catalyst to urban Suchandra Bardhan renewal in the 63 short-listed cities and affected many more giving way to several city planning activities all over India. The remarkable attribute of Editorial Advisors this mission is that during the planned period, it seeks to ensure sustainable Adam Hardy, development of the selected cities. The success of the implementation PRASADA, Welsh School of process of the mission would be evaluated and monitored on a regular basis Architecture, Cardiff, UK and the resultant observations shall provide a background for formulation of the Eleventh Five Year Plan. A.G.K. Menon TVB School of Habitat Studies, This issue reviews the ongoing activities under NURM and brings forth New Delhi multidisciplinary perspectives of professionals, bureaucrats, academicians and NGO’s engaged with the mission in one manner or the other. We have Madhuri Desai, been encouraged by the response received for this issue and are thankful to University of California, Berkeley, all the authors for making this issue possible. We also hope that limitations USA imposed on us due to space constraints within this volume will be understood in the right spirit. Rima Hooja MSID India Program, The wide variety of articles are categorised in 4 main sections – the University of Minnesota, [ USA objectives, the second section on the States and the Mission Cities and their achievements and shortcomings, the third section on the historic city cores Shankar Ghose [ Charkha, exemplify good urban governance and a sustainable conservation approach. Development Communication Network, New Delhi Despite certain shortcomings, there is no denying that the mission if successful could achieve a major overhaul of the Indian cities. Realising Monideep Chattopadhyay the need for involvement of the civil society and as a commitment to the Siddaganga Institute of Technology mission, DRONAH will be carrying a special section on JNNURM in each Tumkur, Karnataka issue of this journal till the mission lasts. Layout & Design SN Graphix (011) 55924474, 9891299959 Copyright © 2006 Dronah, India All rights reserved including the right to reproduce and contents of this publication in whole or in part without prior written permission of the publishers. Neither this book nor any part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including \ or by any information storage and retreival system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed and published by DRONAH A-258, South City - I, Gurgaon-122 001 Tel: 0124-4082081,2381067, Fax: 0124-4269081 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.dronah.org ISSN: 0973-502X Disclaimer: All articles included in this issue express individual views of the author Vol III Issue 2 Autumn/Winter 2006 and not of any organisation. All photographs are contributed by the authors unless [ Editorial 5 New opportunities abound, for the development and renewal of cities throughout India. The Jawaharal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) - as the thought-provoking articles in this review expound can become a milestone for sustainable !"#$"!#%R!' largest in the world, will soon be as numerous as the entire population of the nations of the European Union or of the African continent. The future of the cities of India and its inhabitants will directly impact the course of the world - environmentally, politically, socially, economically and culturally. Urbanisation as a phenomenon is a global reality, a trend that will be further expedited by the globalisation of the world economy and the industrialisation of food production. The crucial urban-rural linkage, and delicate mutual interdependence needs to be harnessed, as India becomes a global economic force. JNNURM, as well as other national schemes to support urban development, such as the Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) or the Integrated Housing Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) amongst others, represent a response to this reality and demonstrate a political com- mitment by the Government of India to promote a new type of urbanisation, going beyond the mere growth of urban facilities. *![!" 74th Constitutional Amendment Act. The diversity within the unity of India, the country’s strongest asset must not be jeopardised in the process. On the contrary, it needs to be carefully protected, enriched and valorised. The cultural wealth of Indian cities-amongst the earliest !!OP"[ inhabitants and their mode of life. India’s cities are as diverse as its people, their beliefs and their natural features that together determined its architecture and urban pattern. “Cultural heritage” goes way beyond the grandeur of an individual or the sum of historic monuments and archaeological