Topic

Future Cities: Ensuring world

class civic amenities in urban

India

Submitted by

D.Phaneendra

P.Saritha

D.Sravya

K.SaiDinesh

V.Twejala

Urbanization trend in India

• In 2011 over 31% of its people resides in urban

towns and cities.

• Mumbai is the most populous city in India with a

total metropolitan area population of

approximately20.5 million.

• Urbanization in India was mainly caused after

independence. Economic opportunities are just

one reason people move into cities besides more

infrastructure facilities in the urban areas.

How to develop urban India?

Reducing of slums

Approximately 68 millions of Indian population

are living in slums.

The percentage of slums are also increasing due

to the migration of villagers in to urban areas for

employment.

Increasing of slums is not a good sign which leads

to lot of health problems in people living there

and also it will be an obstacle when ever there is

an expansion or construction in that area.

• Slums can be reduced by constructing large apartments by the government so that the people can move to their respective homes and should be allocated properly to those people strictly or else they will be homeless.

• Constructing of these buildings leads to reduce in the area of slums and the government can utilize that space or area for any productive purpose constructions or sanction that land for any private industrialist on contract basis.

• Example: Mumbai international airport

• Even the living conditions of the people in slums increases.

Over coming Water shortage

• Every household should practice rain water harvesting. We should be in a position to utilize 100% of the rainwater.

• Smart use of water by every resident helps to save water

• For example:Mop your house with the water left after rinsing clothes

• From now onwards when ever a new house or apartment or constructed they should ensure to have a bore facility.

• Places which doesn’t have access to water should build large tanks under the house or apartment so that the municipality can connect water directly to those tanks and also they can connect them to rain water with proper mechanism.

Infrastructure-roads • good roads are essentially important for smooth flow of

traffic. It is very important to divide roads for public vehicles and personal vehicles.

• Footpaths must be laid all over the country so that pedestrians and vehicles do not collide.

• Area limitation should be put on hire service vehicles like auto, taxi etc and the driver should be charged some amount if he exceeds his permitted area.

• Definitely good roads helps to strength the economy since this is a globalization era roads have become one of the important mode of transport

• Some places are overcrowded in the country so building flyovers, subways help in diversifying traffic.

Use of public transport and reduce air

and sound pollution • The usage of more personal vehicles leads to lot of

traffic and pollutions like air pollution and sound pollution. These pollutions have adverse affect on the health of people and also acts as a source of diseases.

• In order to reduce this we need to use the services of public transport so that there will be reduce in traffic, pollutions and also act as source of income to government. It is even economical to people and finally it also reduces the demand for oil in India. Government also should take necessary actions in maintaining public transport like RTC(road transport corporations), metros etc

Energy • In India we mainly have two sources to generate

electricity they are hydro and thermal.

• Solar panels must be installed on roof of every new constructed houses and also existing ones.

• Even the government amenities like street lights, divider lights on roads must be installed with solar panels so that on day time they can get charged and on night they function with that accumulated energy.

• Definitely the future will be functioning with solar energy since it is only source(sun) which is constant and the energy it generates never decrease.

• Government must ensure private entrepreneurs in this field.

MORE INVESTMENT IN SERVICE

SECTOR • A country is complete only when it provides any kind of service to any

kind of people at any point of time. It is very important to increase the percentage of service sector in India. Full support should be give by government for FDI in service sector.

• Since there is growing population the need of services by public will be more, either be a government service or a private service.

• So services like hospital, hotels,schools,product service centres, police stations, fire control station etc are all essential for a complete urban city.

• Having good service sector also encourages foreigners to visit our country for tourism purpose which would add revenues to the country.

• Proper maintenance of government hospitals will be beneficial to lot of people in the country. As we all know that majority of population in India are in lower income group they essentially need all these services.

Conclusion

• In future we are not saying that Indian cities should match some

high developed cities in world. We are expecting every city to be in a position to provide all basic amenities, services for all categories of people be it a low class or high class. some every city should concentrate on:

• Maintaining bus stops, public toilets, hospitals, police stations, proper regulation of traffic-traffic rules etc

• Should concentrate on building apartments rather than individual houses.

• Developing alternates sources of power supply, proper utilization of rain water, concentration on pollution reduction etc.

• Proper buildings should be constructed where there will be no chance for theft and also safety of people should be primary concern for government.