Future Cities: Ensuring world class civic amenities in urban India This document outlines issues facing urban development in India and proposes solutions. It identifies problems with education, healthcare, recreation, transportation, environment, slum management, food security, technology, and basic amenities. Solutions proposed include improving education quality, increasing access to affordable healthcare, developing parks and recreation, improving transportation infrastructure, addressing pollution and waste, providing jobs and training to slum residents, adopting innovative technologies, and ensuring reliable access to electricity, water, and gas. The document discusses funding urban development through increased taxes, land sales, municipal bonds, and public-private partnerships. It also outlines potential positive impacts and challenges of modernizing India's cities.

1. Future Cities: Ensuring world class civic
amenities in urban India
Team Name: b2i
Project Name: EUREKA
• Akshay Bhargava
• Anshik Yadav
• Pallav Grover
• Sumit Kumar
• S. Pranav Kumar

2. What makes a city?
Cities in India today are either badly planned or not planned at all, growing in haphazard
directions as the need arises. There is an overarching need to make the cities grow in a
more inclusive fashion, providing not just better quality of life for some, but for all.
• High dropout rates along with unavailability
of qualified and competent teachers
EDUCATION
• Inefficient distribution of medicines along
with lack of proper facilities
HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
• Improper recreational opportunities and
facilities
RECREATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES
Issues concerning the current scenario:-
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Regional
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Distribution of years lost of life
lost by causes

3. • Improper traffic managementTRANSPORTATION
• Increasing pollution and issue of solid
waste disposal
ENVIRONMENT
• Unhygienic conditions and
inaccessibility to basic facilities and
amenities
SLUMS MANAGEMENT
• Lack of efficient supply system and
innovative technology
FOOD SECURITY
• Delay in projects due to inadaptability
with new technological advancements
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT
• Inefficiency of current systems for power
supply along with other amenities like
water and gas
BASIC HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES
• Improper resource utilization and lack of
coordination among various
departments
CITY PLANNING

4. •Municipal bodies should scholarships to increase competitive spirit
among students.
•They should also award schools on the basis of introducing enhanced
and creative methods like incorporating interactive learning through
visual media and also outperforming their peers.
•Providing land and other resources like teaching equipment at
subsidized rates
•Holding annual exams for teachers to ensure their ability to teach.
•Chain of generic medicine shops need to be setup to provide cheaper
medicines to the common masses
•Health seminars should be conducted by each hospital annually in
cooperation with each other so that they do not collide
•Government needs to facilitate private hospital partnerships and
informational exchange with their own hospitals so that efficiency of
government hospitals can be increased. Tax benefits to the
cooperating private hospitals can be given, especially if they
participate in providing free/low-cost healthcare to those who cannot
afford it (BPL – Below Poverty Line)
SOLUTIONS

5. •A green belt to be constructed around the city perimeter.
•Hawkers and street vendors to be allotted specific areas for their work
•Curbing the problems of stray animals through a process of
rehabilitation. NGOs can be approached and funded to complete this
task.
•Inspection and repair of roads in phases over different parts of the city.
A separate committee can oversee this task and can carry out the
inspection of construction materials and the progress.
•Problem of water logging needs to be tackled immediately. As civic
agencies have not been able to perform this task diligently, foreign
systems for revised drainage systems can be used.
Provision for installing solar panels in government buildings; their usage in
street lights and public areas.
•Government has already approved a group insurance scheme (IGL Suraksha
Yojana) for CNG taxi and auto-drivers. This has yielded satisfactory results
and should work fine in other cities as well.
•Water harvesting tanks in each district to be set up with a pipeline system
which ensures that rainwater can be utilized in emergency.
•Devices like “Garburator” should be promoted by the municipality. These
devices can be used by households to convert organic waste to energy via
conversion to biogas
•Other facilities like Envac (Automated Waste Collection System) to be
promoted as well.

6. •Flyovers to be constructed within time keeping in view of lanes, distances and traffic
conditions in the overlying area
•As done in Ahmedabad, removing encroachments like illegal constructions and
parking which block the roads; resulting in smooth flow of traffic.
•Improving the current BRTS system by constructing under and over passes to allow
passengers to reach the bus stations.
•Transport unions to be told to control the overcrowding of passengers in buses .
•Fleet of buses to be increased to ensure high frequency of buses along the major
routes.
•Employment agencies to be set up near the slums which also act as training centers.
This would help the people in elevating their economic as well as social status, in a
long time horizon ensuring the rehabilitation and removal of slums by themselves.
•The jobs can be simple ones like sweepers, house maids, etc and simple crafts like
carpenters, barbers etc. Companies can be invited to recruit in such areas; they will
get cheap labour and the people will get the jobs they need to get the basic
necessities for life.
•The modern idea of vertical farming uses techniques similar to glass houses where natural
sunlight can be augmented with artificial lighting.
•Intervention regarding individual assessment, geographical targeting and self targeting.
•Technological intervention like community kitchens where free meals are provided to
those houses in the poorest areas like slums in the cities.

7. •Privatisation of production and distribution of electricity to households.
•Segmentation of city into various districts and installing power generation plants
in each of those districts.
•The above can also be carried out for provision of water. Quality of water also
needs to be overseen. An agency to carry out inspection of periodic checks on
quality of water in various parts of the city.
•More parks, libraries, amusement parks, theaters and sport complexes should be
set up.
•City tours, sports meets, general competitions and annual fests to be organized
time to time.
•Senior Citizens and Club Committees to increase old persons participation along
with proper recreational equipment like carom board, chess, music, etc.
•Policemen cameras, free Wi-Fi in public areas, collaborating with telecom
companies in setting up fiber cables in each city to facilitate speedy communication .
•Taking help of technological institutes to be able to adapt to the new technological
advancements and ensuring taking advantage of them efficiently.
•Traffic policemen should be provided with machines that directly print the challans
to avoid scope of corruption.

8. FUNDING
Required: $1.2
trillion capital
investment to
meet demands for
urban
development
By raising sales and
property tax
(especially in major
cities)
Land monetization; govt land can
be sold at market rates unless for
the purpose of agriculture or
eduation
Using long term
debt in major
projects like
metro systems
“Munis”, or municipal
bonds are tax free bonds
raised by local govt. for
civic projects. Indian cities
can easily become
financially independent if
this can work successfully
Setting up an agency/bureau
to ensure efficient accounting
of municipal funds.
Over 80-85% of required funds can
be generated internally by cities, the
rest can come from external sources
like central government, foreign
companies and banks.
“Depending on the city and its size and
other various conditions , a mix of sources
can be used to fund the requirements.”

9. IMPACTS
1. Overall enhancement in performance
and quality of education systems.
6. City life will be more enjoyable and
interesting.
2. Reduction of burden on conventional
energy sources - Clean and healthy
environment.
7. Construction in various parts of city will
temporarily cause traffic problems along
with probable pollution.
3. Standard of living of slum dwellers will
improve over time and they would move
in mainstream society.
8. A better planned city with accessibility to
all kinds of facilities.
4. Efficient and uninterrupted flow of basic
amenities like electricity, water and gas.
9. Cities will become self sufficient
financially.
5. Embracing innovate culture and newer
technology will allow India’s cities to be
secure for the future.
10. Sections of society who are currently
deprived of food will get allowance.

10. • Some environmental changes
could occur especially in new
constructions, so flora and
fauna may be lost
• Funding, especially
through debt will
always have costs
like interest.
• Long time to
implement all these
modifications
• People, unions etc.
will always agitate
against any new
move.
Social Political
EnviromentalEconomic
CHALLENGES

11. Concluding Note
Urban India needs a major makeover and there are various steps that can be
taken in ensuring that that our modern and developing cities continue to grow
on the right path and be at par with the major and well established cities in
foreign countries.
However as the government and various other agencies take steps to ensure
that the needs of the centers of business and trade are met, the maintenance
of the existing structures is also required.
With due diligence and sheer determination only can we progress forward to
the path of achieving a completely modern and economically , politically and
socially secure India.

12. Sources
1. MGI India Report (Given source)
2. Education for all, Yojana, September 2013 (Magazine)
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