Fragile Urban Governance
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Fragile Urban Governance

Evolution, Decline, and Empowerment of Local Self-Government in India

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
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Fragile Urban Governance

Evolution, Decline, and Empowerment of Local Self-Government in India

About this book

Urbanization is giving rise to a vibrant and volatile urban India. The urban local self-government (ULSG) is struggling to provide efficient, effective, inclusive and responsive urban services. Most ULSGs are too fragile to perform the mandated functions for enhancing the quality of life and making cities and towns livable.

The book traces evolution of ULSGs, its decline after Independence, and steps taken to strengthen them, especially through the big-bang decentralization initiative of 1992 for their empowerment, by enacting the 74th Constitution Amendment Act (74th CAA). Analyzing facets of the decentralization initiative, views of two review Commissions, policy responses to it and processes for implementation of constitutional provisions, it alludes to conspicuous gaps at three levels such as (i) gaps and deficiencies in the 74th CAA (ii) gaps in the post-74th CAA municipal Acts that were required to conform to the constitutional provisions, and (iii) gaps due to half-hearted implementation of even the mandatory constitutional provisions.

Empowerment and strengthening of ULSG being in the nature of an imperative, it explores plausible options within the constitutional autonomy of states. Empowerment denotes authority, power and clarity in municipal functional and fiscal domain. Therefore it also specifies experiential based rational framework and a strategy for strengthening ULSGs that must look beyond the existing predilection for mere training. It fills an existing void in ULSG literature on the subject.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1. Urban Local Self-Government: Its Role and Evolution
  9. 2. Urban Local Self-Government in Post-Independent Period
  10. 3. Decentralization and Empowerment of Urban Local Self-Government: The Constitution Amendment
  11. 4. State Municipal Laws in the Post-74th Constitution Amendment Regime
  12. 5. Views of Constitution Review Commission and Second Administrative Reforms Commission
  13. 6. Implementation of 74th Constitution Amendment
  14. 7. Empowerment of Urban Local Self-Government: The Options
  15. 8. Strengthening Urban Local Self-Government: Organizational Capacity Development
  16. Annexes
  17. Index