01286nam a22001457a 4500999001900000008004100019100002600060245008400086260003300170300003300203520075600236773003300992942000701025952010801032  c533136d533136260427b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFatima, Sheema960248  aDisposing land in Patna: Bureaucratic evasion and urban planning as negotiation  aEconomic & Political Weekly   a 61(6), Feb 7, 2026: p.89-96  aThe prolonged absence of a functioning master plan is not simply a failure of institutional capacity but a practice embedded in Bihar’s sociopolitical and agrarian-rooted reality that informs landed elites’ spatial practices in urban areas. Hence, urban planning operates less as a technocratic, rational process and more as a historically contingent and socially negotiated practice mediated through caste and bureaucratic networks. Drawing on land acquisition records, legislative debates, housing schemes and court judgments, the paper shows how land acquisition was prioritised while consistently deferring formalisation of binding planning frameworks. –Reproduced 

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  aEconomic & Political Weekly   cAR  00102ddc40709408308aIIPAbIIPAd2026-04-27h 61(6), Feb 7, 2026: p.89-96pAR138647r2026-04-27yAR