YUVASANGAM THEME:FUTURE CITIES

Ensuring World Class Civic Amenities In Urban India

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 INCREASED URBANISATION IS CONGESTING OUR
CITIES LIMITING THE ACCESS TO BASIC AMENITIES

Low access to clean water and high transport congestion are two problems which need
immediate attention

India bears the 58-73% urban

loss of population has
Rs 600,000 Cr access to clean
annually due to water.
transport 94% cities lack
congestion. proper
sewerage
network.
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 TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES A
SOLUTION TO DECONGESTION OF URBAN CENTERS

Pedestrian friendly Improving road Efficient public Public centric

environment connectivity transport planning

• Major transport nodes • Disperse high traffic • Ensure reliability, • Promote cleaner fuels
like metro stations and volumes from major frequency and and efficient automobile
bus stops to be within arterial streets to affordability of public technologies.
walkable distance. multiple human scale transport system. • Integrate long term land
• Provision of adequate streets. • Discourage the use of use and transport
public amenities like • Develop collector road private vehicles. planning.
toilets, resting places. network to compliment • Develop fully dedicated • Community involvement
• Develop shortest direct the highway network. right of way for buses. in planning and
route for pedestrians, • Provision of special development.
connecting stations to routes for emergency
shopping/industrial services.
complexes.

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 NON MOTORIZED TRANSPORT TO AID CURRENT
SYSTEM IN SPECIFIC AREA BOUND LOCATIONS

Lane development Excludability Public-Private Safety and security

partnership

• Safe lane availability is • It is essential to ensure • Involve private bodies to • Policing system aided by
crucial for public limited access to cycle facilitate provision of tracking devices and
conversion from lane. Proliferation can cycles outside CCTV should be created
motorized to non lead to accidents and residential areas, malls to ensure public safety
motorized traffic jam on major and office spaces. and reduce theft and
transportation. roads. vandalization of public
• Develop lanes in high property.
traffic density areas.

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 ADAPTING TRANSIT ORIENTED AND NON MOTORISED
TRANSPORTATION WILL HAVE LONG TERM
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS

Economic Benefit: Low financial requirement

Low budget • As per the current project of Transit Oriented
requirement for Development in Bangalore, lane development
Infrastructure
development. incurs a cost of 0.6 million INR per Km.

Reduced traffic on major roads

• The increased usage of Non Motorised modes
Social Benefit: Environmental and public transport will lead to reduction in
Reduction in road benefit: number of vehicles on road.
accidents and Low fuel
transportation consumption & Reduction in fuel consumption
cost. carbon emission • The use of cycles will decrease the daily fuel
consumption.

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 DECREASING WATER AVAILABILITY IS A TICKING
TIME BOMB FOR OUR CITIES
• Per capita water availability is expected to decline by 26% by 2025
and 36% by 2050 relative to 2001 levels.
• Presently, urban water service is riddled with problems of limited
coverage of household connections, inadequate supply and poor
quality.

Problems Galore Finding a way out

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 SOLVING THE WATER PROBLEM

Water centric
Metering Incremental tariff Decentralization design

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 BLEND OF DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM WITH CURRENT
CENTRALIZED NETWORK WILL CREATE SUSTAINABLE
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

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 CHANGING POLICIES TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE
INFRASTRUCTURE
All policies must follow the four pillars of sustainable infrastructure
Better Management: Shift utility
Full cost pricing: Pricing structure
management beyond compliance to
that recovers full cost of services
sustainability and improved
over long term.
performance.

Watershed Approach: Cost

Water efficiency: Promote use of effective alternatives like source
efficient products and services. water protection, waste water
management

Change of perspective in measuring levels of service-Sustainability focus

Shifting from compliance to existing Shifting from customer satisfaction

regulations to integrated resource and perspective to multiple stakeholder
community benefits. decision making process.

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