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This book discusses the nuances of corridor development in India
and its implications on land acquisition and displacement. It
explores the complexities of land related conflicts and its
socio-economic impacts on people's lives. Examining the evolution
of a few corridors of national importance like the Mumbai-Nagpur
Expressway, Yamuna Expressway, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor,
and Pune-Mumbai Expressway, the volume provides a comprehensive
understanding of the dynamics of corridor development and regional
growth. The book discusses how policies relating to land
acquisition result in political, economic, legal and psychological
hardships. The authors, using primary and secondary data, assess
the socio-economic implications of land-acquisition on agriculture,
employment, environment, demography, and land utilization along the
regions touching these corridors. The work further discusses
sustainable interventions in land acquisition practices to ensure
equity of land and resources for vulnerable communities. The book
will be useful for students and researchers of public policy,
development studies, economics, urban and regional development
studies and sociology. It will also be of interest to academicians,
regional planners, and those working in the field of land
development, resettlement and rehabilitation.
The book focuses on the urban governance in the context of pre and
post 74th Constitutional Amendment Act in the state of Gujarat and
Andhra Pradesh. The level of decentralized governance is being
studied with the transfer of functional and financial powers to the
municipal corporations of Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. By selecting two
case studies from differing locations, an attempt has been made to
see how the decentralised model of urban governance gets translated
on ground in different contexts and what kind of commonalities as
well as particularities emerge. The role of civil society in the
participatory governance in a traditional place where participation
is rooted since pre-independence period and role of e-governance in
the economically advanced state bring a difference in the
metropolitan governance. The book emphasises on presence or absence
of attributes of governance i.e. efficiency, effectiveness,
accountability, responsiveness, transparency and bureaucratic
hurdles in governance at the city level. The attainment of these
attributes necessarily warrants involvement of several actors and
stakeholders - state, NGOs and people - placed in an inclusive as
well as interactive framework. The present study adopts a
triangular framework of reference in which various stakeholders,
i.e. state officials, elected representatives (councillors),
NGOs/CBOs and citizens are interfaced on issues related to urban
governance. The different kind of model of urban governance has
emerged bringing out differences in their role in metropolitan
governance. The book concludes suggesting the ways to develop an
appropriate institutional structure for effective delivery of
municipal services. Metropolitan Governance is an indispensable
book for understanding the governance of metropolitan cities. The
book covers an insight into the governance in Ahmedabad and
Hyderabad. The participatory metropolitan governance is also of
interest to the students of sociology, social work and geography.
The students of public administration would find it useful to study
the decentralisation of powers from centre to state to local level
government. For academicians engaged in service delivery in
metropolitan areas, it brings in clarity regarding role of varied
stakeholders in governance.
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