How India’s Great Urban Decentralisation Experiment Has Stalled Sharmila Chavaly, India’s cities are trapped in a half-decentralised limbo. Powerless mayors, weak finances, and fragmented planning. Three decades after the 74th Amendment, the great urban reform exp...

1/4 Streets flooded after a brief shower, endless traffic snarls, and the slow-motion collapse of infrastructure—these aren’t isolated glitches but symptoms of a deeper governance failure.

#UrbanIndia #CityCrisis #Decentralisation #Governance #Infrastructure #SmartCities #74thAmendment

Happened in West-Gujarat. Giving examples of gender budgeting and overall governance structures in Finland, and got the question from the audience: ”where is the citizen in all this?” - ”Good question, writing petitions I guess” #74thamendment #importtoFinland?