Delhi NCR’s three-day conference: Municipalika 2013
A three-day international conference and exhibition took place in Delhi on ”Good Governance” regarding the challenges of rapid urbanization and expanding cities in order to provide enough space for the rapidly increasing population.
The seminar was attended by many stakeholders and city developers from across the world. They shared their views on ways to build safe and smart cities.
Municipalika 2013 was the 11th international conference and Exhibition known as “Municipalika 2013″ which was held at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida. The focus of the seminar was on good urban governance for safe, healthy, green, inclusive & smart cities. The exhibition was attended by top urban planning officials including Sudhir Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India and Arun Kumar Misra, Secretary Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
With the increasing population, the demand for the city infrastructure has gone up. Looking into the matter, government is planning enhanced development under the Phase II of JNNURM that will include far-reaching initiatives for improving transportation, water and waste management.
The need for capacity building and improving the governance mechanism for speedy urban delivery systems will also be covered.
This has directly hit the need for incremental sustenance and the role of private sector and communities to bring in resources, technology, management and improved innovations for housing and infrastructure development.
Government has taken up a new mantra for the development as per which the development will be taken care by the Public-Private-People’s Partnership (PPPP) as against PPP.
The main pointers, the speakers highlighted were about the immense potential of decentralization. They explained that it should involve stakeholders at the local/micro level and monitoring and execution of projects in the decentralized mode with intense community participation.
The new technique should ensure a uniform code of selection and conduct for mayors, city managers for all local governments including common cadre for City Managers. They said that disaster management should be made crucial criteria.
The conference and exhibition focused on the need for new plans to prove the marginalized poor people and disadvantaged is a major message for future city planning.
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