The findings of the fourth Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (2016), conducted by Bengaluru-based Janaagraha, are highly educative, while remaining within the drift of insights available in earlier reports. They help us understand which way our leading cities are headed.
Do leading Indian cities (21 are surveyed and their scores juxtaposed against those of two global leaders, London and New York) have the ability to renew themselves, have plans worth the name to help them get ahead? To the question, “Does your city have a decentralised system of spatial development planning”, the score for 18 out of 21 is poor
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