This paper takes the position that a useful governance perspective must be informed by the socio-economiccultural milieu, and in the specific Indian context must sit on a tripod of ”political reality”, ”state of decentralisation” and ”basic economic principles”. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is one of the most important growth engines for India as it accrues tremendous revenues to the central and the Maharashtra state governments.

GUWAHATI: Big cities in our country are dotted with slums and Guwahati is no exception.

The Ministry of Housing and Poverty Allevation has taken up a Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme and under this scheme the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), along with the Assam Government, has taken up the Slum Housing Project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM

With the monsoon having arrived, the threat of water-borne diseases is looming large over the city with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board failing to supply potable drinking water to all citizens.

Water samples collected from various localities in the city by the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), the Institute of Health Systems (IHS), the Water Board and the Greate

MARGAO: The Costa grounds issue created uproar at the Margao Municipal Council meeting on Thursday.

KOLKATA, 23 JUNE: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will sink 1,600 new tubewells in the city, member, mayor-in-council (mini and deep tube well), Mr Tarak Singh, said today.

He said the KMC has asked all the councillors to provide details of requirement of sinking tube wells in their respective wards to counter the water crisis a few days back.

Mr Singh said around 1,598 tubewells in

GUWAHATI: The Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, has been launched for slum dwellers and the urban poor on the lines of the Indira Awas Yojana for the rural poor. RAY is a right-based, reform-driven programme under the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Shelters set up at tank spread over 32 acres lack maintenance
PUDUKOTTAI: The municipality has drafted a proposal seeking an outlay of Rs.

New Delhi: The total number of dengue cases reported this season has gone up to five after a 20-yearold girl admitted at a private hospital was diagnosed positive for the vector-borne disease.

A high-power committee, constituted with officials of different departments, is on the anvil to prevent waterlogging in the city and look into proper drainage of stagnant water after rains, state irrigation and waterways minister, Dr Manas Bhuniya, said today, after a meeting with the mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, officials of various departments and MLAs in Jal Sampad Bhavan in Salt Lake.

He sa

New Delhi: To break the stranglehold of the parking mafia, Municipal Corporation of Delhi has come up with a unique plan to advertise its 108 new parking sites, which are up for bidding. For the first time, MCD is using its outdoor sites and radio to advertise the parking sites in addition to advertising in newspapers.

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