Priorities in Urban Planning and National Commission on Urbanisation

Commission on Urbanisation Meera Mehta Dinesh Mehta The critical area of concern in regard to the Final Report of the National Commission on Urbanisation relates to identification of appropriate policies and programmes to achieve the aims specified by the commission. Here the commission's claim that it "has identified in almost every case, viable programmes that merit our most urgent consideration" is questionable. The policies and programmes set out in the report are neither explicit nor always the 'most relevant'. At times, important concerns have been simply ignored.