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 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEED, IMPORTANCE AND APPLICATION OF SUSTAINABLE URBANRENEWAL IN INDIAN CONTEXT.VENKATESH.R.K 
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEED, IMPORTANCE AND APPLICATION OFSUSTAINABLE URBAN RENEWAL IN INDIAN CONTEXT.
 
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Abstract:
The world is becoming increasingly urban, and more so in the developing countries. The suddenoutburst in the urban population without proper infrastructure and resources can lead to devastatingresults. True wealth of cities is found in the progressive endogenous development of assets such ascultural heritage, human resources and urban infrastructure rather than in soliciting outside capital. Apart from the planning interventions a suitable mechanism needs to be worked out to monitor thedevelopment of physical and social infrastructure. The need of the hour is to academically establishan understanding and identifying the suitable indicators for sustainable urban renewal. Cities are potential engines of economic growth for their countries, as well as celebrations of collective humanhope, imagination and efforts. While cities in the developed world are readjusting to post-industrial economies and shrinking populations at this time in history, cities in the developing world areswelling with rural-urban migrations and squatter areas alongside rising prosperity. At either end of the spectrum, there is pressure for cities to engage in the global economy just as new informationand communication technologies make it increasingly easy to do so. Cities now compete for financial investments, multinational companies and talented human resources, all of which that are becomingincreasingly mobile across the global stage. In India there is an amazing amalgamation of infrastructure from several centuries in form of haphazardly built layers of urban fabric under whichthe common urbanite of India feels suffocated and crushed. Unlike their western counterparts theIndian urban settlements never had the fortune (or the misfortune) of being reduced as ruins of war and thereby necessitating the need for fresh development and renewal.
 
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEED, IMPORTANCE AND APPLICATION OFSUSTAINABLE URBAN RENEWAL IN INDIAN CONTEXT.
 
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Hence the international conceptions of renewal and redevelopment require a fresh improvisation inIndian context. Over the past two decades, India has made sustained progress on a scale, size and  pace that is unprecedented in its own history. A low-income country with mass poverty at the time of Independence in 1947, India now has a diminishing pool of very poor people and is poised to crossthe threshold to join the ranks of the wo
rld’s middle
-income countries. Over the past 62 years, thecountry has been successful on a number of fronts. The city slums and the inadequate and over strained urban facilities are manifestations of the migration of the poor and the poverty in villages.Tackling this problem of urban inadequacies and facilitating the lives of the urban poor into one of comfort will only encourage further migration. The solution to the urban poverty lies in the villages.Pouring vast sums of money in the cities for improving the lives of urban poor and finding them jobswould be treating the symptoms instead of the malaise. It is in this context the government should work for the development of rural segment as an overall national economic strategy. As KempRonald Hope Sr. Says in his book Development in the Third World "rural development means the far reaching transformation of social and economic institutions, structure, relationships, and processes inany rural area.
Keywords: Physical Infrastructure, Social Infrastructure, Sustainable Urban Renewal, JNNURM,Stream: Urban Economics and SociologyPaper: An Introduction to the Need, Importance and Application of Sustainable Urban Renewal inIndian context.Done by: Venkatesh.R.K, Sem 6.Definitions:
* The clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums.* Programs to revitalize old, blighted sections of inner cities.* The redevelopment or rehabilitation of real property in a city, usually as the result of acooperative effort by private developers and local government.* The procedure of condemning private land as a blighted area and having it torn down andrebuilt.
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