Tikender Singh Panwar

Tikender Singh Panwar

Former Deputy Mayor of Shimla and Visiting Senior Fellow at IMPRI

Budget Breakdown: What’s in Store for Cities and Infrastructure?

The story so far: In 2015, the NDA government positioned urban development as a key pillar of its growth strategy as cities contribute nearly 67% to the GDP. However, in the government’s vision for a “Viksit Bharat,” cities seem to be conspicuously absent.

The Rise and Fall of India’s Smart Cities: A Case Study of Shimla

Almost a decade has passed since the Indian government announced the concept of “smart cities” as the new lighthouses of urbanisation. The June 2015 announcement of 100 smart cities aimed to create models of urban development. However, these lighthouses of urbanity have now been relegated to the annals of India’s urbanisation history.

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