There are over 400 million citizens living in India’s cities. This number is estimated to grow to over 800 million by 2050.
The future of India’s cities depends on our ability to balance growth and development with environmental sustainability and equitable access to opportunities and services, all within a framework of democratic engagement. Fixing India’s city-systems, i.e. the governance machinery that delivers services and infrastructure, is critical to helping our cities achieve this balance.
The Annual Conclave on Shaping India’s Urban Agenda seeks to advance thought leadership on city-systems reforms to build salience for a systems approach to governing India’s cities.
The 7th edition of the Conclave will bring together a select group of senior policymakers from union and state governments, researchers, practitioners, and philanthropists.
BVR Subrahmanyam, IAS (Retd.), Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog
Suman Bery, Vice-Chairperson, NITI Aayog
Janaagraha is a Bengaluru-based not-for-profit institution working to transform the quality of life in India’s cities and towns. We define quality of life as comprising of quality of infrastructure and services, and quality of citizenship. To achieve its mission, Janaagraha works with councillors and citizens to catalyse active citizenship in city neighbourhoods, and with governments to institute reforms to city-systems.
Janaagraha has worked extensively on urban policy and governance reforms for over two decades including on JnNURM, and with XIII, XIV and XV Finance Commissions, Second Administrative Reforms Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, NITI Aayog/ Planning Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and state governments of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Assam.