It’s a scene so familiar it has become a backdrop to urban Indian life: streets waterlogged after a brief shower, traffic snarls that stretch for hours, and the slow-motion collapse of public infrastructure. Beneath this dysfunction lies a deeper malaise: the virtual collapse of urban governance.The roots of this crisis lie in the gap between a visionary reform and its half-hearted execution. The 74th Constitutional Amendment of 1992 granted constitutional status to Urban Local Bodies, aiming to dismantle a top-down, exclusionary planning model.
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