City-systems
ASICS 2023
2023
Janaagraha ASICS

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 6th 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.