India struggling to tackle its cities: What can be done??

For the first time there's some recognition in India that urban development has to become a priority. It could take one success in a single city to create the momentum for a national push, comparing the current lack of infrastructure investment to the way the IT sector was developed in India. For eg: "When Bangalore became successful, other cities started to emulate it."

Local Bodies should strictly abide people to follow rules of set back.so that parking may be easier.Planning for multi storied parking must be taken up by all local bodies to ensure appropriate movment of public in city. Parking may be on chargable basis.Entire city roads must be planned in desired width. 

I mean today in India infrastructure development in Urban cities is happening just for the sake of it....as and when problem arises they are taking care of it...they are not at all thinking about the future and what will be the number by that time and are not developing it...but as and when traffic congestion increases, they think about creating a flyover or a metro...which not only is causing problems to the public time and again, but also these stop gap procedures are not working at the moment, A stretch of road will be readied time and again, as these politicians wants to please the people, they are not bothered about the permanent solution for these things, and it will remain same if the thinking is not changed in the first place...

The vehicle population in the urban areas has grown beyond imagination. The only solution now is to charge heavy rental for on Parking like most of the developed countries. In cases like Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune etc. A vehicle should not be sold to person who does not have a owned or rented parking space. Thi will automatically refrain people from unnecessary buying of vehicles. This will further refrain people from using their personal vehicles while going to crowded areas. To make this scheme effective th local Governments will have to strengthen their public transport.

Guys toostep has so many talented people who now n then come up with so many issues our country is facing.Thanks for the referral.

I suggest which to my mind is near to impossible that is..... our government is run by businessmen who are either very good in politics or politicans who are very good in business. this has brought forth the pathetic situation. We as Indians are a bunch of humans whose brains are wired in a way that we cannot think of progressing in any way without a support.....I keep on stating the same thing again and again that we are parasites....I dont know how many of us have the courage to accept it.

Our politicans and our business men..are not someone who are from a different race they are also indians...then what makes them different and rulers on 110 crores of indians ....who just follow them......its our lack of resistance to them.

Throw these people out of power and stop the businessmen indulging in politics....then u will find decentralisation of power and true growth of our cities in a manner which everyone will appreciate.

This topic is not the one we can comment on in points this is a project which needs atleast one generation or two to prove results.

It is weak city and town planners who can not stand up to political, bureaucratic and land mafia pressures and are solely responsible for this mess.

Install and support a few who can withstand these pressures and see how quickly things can change.

Governments must identify at least one place in every 100 Sq. KM area, plan and develop them into cities.

It is mere waste of money and resources to keep focussing on the existing cities. Rural population is increasing at a rapid place and the 'earning options' such as agriculture, small-scale industries etc., are not sufficient to provide them livelihood.

Having an urban environment nearby will automatically develop the rural areas surrounding it. Karnakata could have 10 mini Bangalores spread across the state instead of one messy, chaotic, expensive Bangalore.

Every City and Locality should have integrated village.

Village lands are acquires to cater to growing urban population, diminishing the village life style, though villages play important role in catering to daily human needs and city people are only consumers.

Imbalance in demand supply results in aduteration of food, there should be village, land area in city, locality marked as village area. 

Government should innitiate steps to integrate village to cities and localities, reducing  congestion in locality/city and making  participation of urban population to take care of village,  making him close to nature.

Thanks Pragya for referral and Anjali for raising a concern on  subject  which every one want to resolve but find helplessness to seek the solution.In my opinion,this problem can be resolved by encouraging commune and  enforcing pool from certain marked posts where they leave their vehicles and use pool vehicles for to and fro to offices,shopping and attending other functions.They may alternate their vehicles.This is the only solution which can be improvised, because  you can not  stop people from  buying the vehicles and use them.

Promote Public transport systems in urban cities by developing infrastructure BRTS, MRTS, metro rails so even if people are staying in suburbs/rural areas they can commute easily from far away distances of 40 kms. Need of better alternative for traveling will arise and increase day by day but proper planning of infrastructure development and transport systems is a must avoiding all the influential challenges faced from political,bureaucratic government side. Awareness needs to be created between society and community to maximum use  public transport which will also lead to the problem solution of traffic jam and increase in no. of vehicles. We should take best example of developing countries like US and UK using public transport as there best option for travelling may be we have different sets of problem arising for that but can always promote using public transport system for traveling.

if central govt. make a planning committee consisting of top level engineers, architects,town planners,transport authorities and also one or two members of each state then only the cities of India will be comfortable for all.

Every day our population is increasing enormously,So each and every person basic needs have to satisfy in a surrounding area,if we go for SEZ projects, it can be tackled around the clock

The problem is no city has progressively developed along the circumference of the City. The City development Authority should not sanction buildings to be concentrated in an area. This is the problem with most of the city. Development should follow along the circumference towards the exterior part of the city and the concept of ring road should be followed in every city.

One thing missing from our urban planners' agenda is pavements for walking. Even if pavements are there, there are milk booths, lottery ticket sellers kiosks, etc. blocking the way. If you can maneuver around them, there are potholes. With streetlights missing, one can only walk on pavements at their own risk or take the bigger risk of walking by the roadside. 

At one time in the story of mankind, urbanization is encouraged so that industry can grow. A large metropolis has given raise to many problems and in developing countries, lack of resources and unplanned growth resulted in not having proper facilities uniformly.

 While enhancing modern day living facilities in the existing urban cent res, the migration to major cities has to be prevented by taking developmental process to 2and 3 tier towns and develop satellite towns around a cluster of villages, so that people can travel less distances to work place from villages they live. A lot of urban facilities have to be created in semi-urban and in Mandal head quarters. Thinking is already there in the minds of planners and it has to be seen how soon such plans take shape and get to the ground.

One striking feature we notice is rural people migrating to urban centers are not able to adopt themselves fast to how one has to live in urban centers. In many parts of Chennai city, cattle is still around and people do buy milk fresh from the milk vendor without realizing the harm they are doing to the health scene. Preventing further urbanization is one thing and how to make the condition better in the present urban setting is another. That is why some one said, we are preparing our selves to live but never live.

If people are self deciplaned ther will be no problem.Ihave been to Thiruanantpuram in my last visit ther I observed the peoples self deciplane no body parks at wrong place or nither any body cross yellow line in between the road this shows the appropriate litracy. This is real litrecy required.

If we really want to develop our urban areas we should give the priority of development of the rural areas. As the population burden on the cities are growing very much so the crime and other unfair trade practises are increasing. Emphasis should also be given to the equal distribution of income. overpressure will only lead to the devastation of  that city, overexploitation of resources, increased number of crime and many other harmful effects. The migration is such a big problem in India from rural to urban. This trend is consequenting in the underutilization of natural resources. That's why India is still in developing stage. This migration has adverse effect on economy as well as very much harmful to environment. I think there should be a balanced way of development for both, in Indian context more to the rural coz they are lacking far behind with their urban counterparts.