Making Indian cities global

We are still harping on the traditional methods of city improvement while the present renewal programs in the Indian cities tend to overlook the demands of the modern and young citizens. The quality of services in most of the town has rarely been improved rather we are busy in keep it afloat owing to pressure both demographic and system failures.

We care to boots about the living environments and concerns of majority of citizens. We just survive on borrowed oxygen from the central and state government (lacks financial self sufficiency). We do not know whether our citizens would like to have better and improved gardens, roads, playgrounds, drinking water, information systems or not. Our big visions does not carry this agenda for our metropolitan cities. We keep our self busy with larger prespectives and forget the smaller requirements for the citizens and those who give business to the cities.

Whether its small vendor or industrialist we are yet to see forward looking local government who are prepared to meet the 21st century at ease. Of course the local bodies are never surplus with resources and technology which can be utilized for such a demand. What we need is apart from core hardware of world class standard a new set of soft products a city can provide to citizens. We are only asking for what we had 50 years ago..gardens, library, transportation, etc in Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi to our new generation of towns.