Major challenges before urban local bodies: Key issues (A case study of Nagpur district)
- Nagarlok: Quarterly Journal of Urban Affairs
- 53(1), Mar, 2021: p.95-113
Third largest Metro city of Maharashtra, Sub-capital of the state and the nodal city of farmers suicide prone Vidarbha region, Nagpur is also a seat of political power and gateway to the eleven districts of Vidarbha region. In addition to many other routine factors for city’s growing population, uncertain incomes, losses from agricultural crops, repeated fragmentations of family owned farm lands, unemployment in the rural areas are also leading to the continuous rural to urban migration with the hopes of better and decent life therein. This growing urbanisation trend is posing many threats and challenges to the Urban Local Bodies in delivering the objectives for which they have been created. The present article attempts to study, analyse and understand the major challenges, key issues of governance, various factors, intricacies, impact of currents and undercurrents of the political power affecting the various dimensions of the desired efficient performance of the urban governance of Nagpur Municipal Corporation. – Reproduced
e-Governance, Urbanisation, Digital India, Fiscal decentralisation, Municipalities and Panchayats