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SUMMARY:Decoding Cities and the Union Budget 2023-24
DESCRIPTION:India’s urban trajectory is at an interesting juncture. Whilst awaiting more planned development, Indian cities are also faced with developmental challenges that are unique ranging from sustainability concerns to climate crisis induced hardships that are increasingly visible. The challenges primarily can be categorized as those that are related to poverty and economic inequalities, infrastructural shortfall and gaps, sustainability concerns and future climate threats with resilience needs. To address these challenges, Indian cities need to adopt sustainable and inclusive urban development strategies that prioritize the needs of all citizens, promote efficient use of resources, and minimize environmental impacts.\nIt is in this context that the urban in union budgets play a crucial role in the economic and social development of the country and direct the policy development for future. The urban also in the last few years has increasingly found more mention and allocations in the union budget, this year at least on the surface was no different. Whilst union budget 2023-24 is well received by industry and mainstream media for increased infrastructure spending with focus on development. The Budget 2023-24 envisions to create sustainable cities of tomorrow, where the states and cities will be encouraged to undertake urban planning reforms and actions to transform our cities into ‘sustainable cities of tomorrow’. The other impetus is to make cities self-reliant, Budget looks to incentivize cities to improve their credit worthiness for municipal bonds and speed the property tax governance reforms. Increased funding of big ticket urban infrastructure projects could be expected through an Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (UIDF) will be established through use of priority sector lending. And another well appreciated focus was on impetus on scientific management of dry and wet waste. But there were also glaring gaps and omissions from tangible programs to address climate resilience needs, urban decentralization of powers and resilience building not in terms of finances, but before those capacities. The urban poor population groups have been given a complete miss, with many schemes and promises made in the previous budgets not even finding mention in the budget speech.\nThis panel then aims to therefore bring together experts to develop a more nuanced and closer reading of the union budget, not just from the perspective of allocations and mentions, but also the themes that were focused on and missed altogether. A closer reading will also help compare the previous budgets and allocations. Specific attention will be given on aspects like governance, urban climate resilience, housing, transportation, urban poor – workers and so on, wherein sectoral expertise will read in between the lines to explain and decode the budget better. It is also expected that such an attempt will also help in better understanding and utilization of union budget as a better tool for engagement with the state for resource allocation and policy improvements.\n
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