The Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS) is a comprehensive diagnostic of the state of India’s city-systems — the complex, mostly-invisible factors (such as laws, policies, institutions, institutional processes) that underpin urban governance and strongly influence the quality of life in India’s cities.

In its 6^th edition, ASICS 2023 evaluates the quality of urban laws (municipal acts and town and country planning acts) of all 35 states/Union Territories (UTs) in India, through 52 questions using the city-systems framework. It recommends 10 instruments of change to strengthen and improve city-systems and thereby, transform urban quality of life.

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