Governance of Urban Infrastructure in India: Exploring the Approaches, Attributes, and Opportunities Towards Sustainability

AbstractOf late, infrastructural issues have become the prime concern of urban governance in India. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), which are constitutionally responsible for grass-root-level governance, do not have the sufficient financial independence to govern infrastructure comprehensively. Thus, a supply-demand anomaly is always evident. In the prevailing federal structure, the strategic framework of institutional devolution is incapable of satisfying the citizen ’s demands. By applying inductive logic and identifying the attributes, roles, and responsibilities of urban infrastructure governance actors, this paper investigates the theoretical and normative trajectory. Accordingly, a wide range of literature was consulted and empirically evaluated in the ex isting framework of governance. Shedding some light on the global scenario of urban infrastructure governance, this study emphasises bridging the state, private, and individual gap. Though the central government is expected to set up the strategic framework, state and local governments will act on t he field towards engineering an environment to promote pro-citizen governance towards sustainability.
Source: Global Social Welfare - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research