Developing sustainable Cities: Major initiatives and experiments in Urban India

Kandpal Prakash Chand

doi:10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00019.5

Developing sustainable Cities

Major initiatives and experiments in Urban India

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Dr. Prakash Chand Kandpal Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Dyal Singh Evening College University of Delhi, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-2726

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https://doi.org/10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00019.5

Keywords:

Pollution, Environmental Protection, Judicial Activism, Urban Environment, Sustainable Cities

Abstract

Urbanization is generally seen as a symbol of development and progress. But, the unplanned and unregulated expansions of urban areas in India have proved disastrous to both man and nature. Keeping in mind the severity of the problem policy-makers from time to time have formulated and experimented a numbers of measures to control environmental pollution. Delhi has been one of the biggest victims of environmental pollution. The Government of Delhi has tried to protect the environment of the city by implementing measures like, closures of polluted industries, introduction of CNG as a clean fuel, ban on crackers, and experiment of odd-even scheme to control vehicular pollution. This paper will primarily highlight such actions and initiatives undertaken by the Government of Delhi to combat the menace of pollution in Delhi.

DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00019.5

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Author Biography

Dr. Prakash Chand Kandpal, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Dyal Singh Evening College University of Delhi, India

Prakash Chand Kandpal is currently a faculty at the Department of Political Science, Dyal Singh Evening College, University of Delhi. He holds a PhD from the University of Delhi. He has been awarded a doctoral fellowship by ICSSR and a postdoctoral research award by UGC. He has coauthored four books with Professor Bidyut Chakrabarty: Public Administration in a Globalizing World (SAGE, 2012), Indian Administration: Evolution and Practice (SAGE, 2016), Public Policy: Concept, Theory and Practice (SAGE, 2016) and Public Administration: From Government to Governance (2017). His research papers have appeared in various national and international journals including Indian Social Science Review, Social Change, Social Action, Urban India, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Administrative Development, Research Journal Social Sciences, Gandhi Marg and so on. He was shortlisted for Dr V. K. R. V. Rao Awards in Social Science Research for the year 2015 for his contribution in the field of Public Administration.

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28-04-2019

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Prakash Chand, K. (2019). Developing sustainable Cities: Major initiatives and experiments in Urban India. SOCRATES, 6(3 and 4), 144–165. https://doi.org/10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00019.5

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Vol. 6 No. 3 and 4 (2018): Issue : September and December

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