JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA
JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA
JNNURM - GANGAPEDIA
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- Jurisdictional Issues<br />
City Development Plan for Agra City in the state of Uttar Pradesh under <strong>JNNURM</strong><br />
The Agra Urban Agglomeration (UA) comprises of areas under the jurisdiction of<br />
a) Agra Nagar Nigam<br />
b) Cantonment Board<br />
c) 2 Nagar Palikas and the<br />
d) Agra Development Authority<br />
The Agra Metropolitan Area constitutes of all the above along with 3 nagar palikas and 2<br />
nagar panchayats in the urban and 179 nagar panchayats in the rural domain.<br />
It can be seen that there are many boundaries and jurisdictional issues crop up time and<br />
again for the extension of provision of civic services by the Agra Nagar Nigam which is the<br />
biggest urban local body in the metropolitan area on which a greater part of the urban spread<br />
is dependant.<br />
- Lack of Citizen Grievance Redressal Systems<br />
It has been observed that while the citizens have a host of problems and they do desire to<br />
participate and bring to the notice of the authorities their problems, the absence of a proper<br />
grievance redressal system has made it very difficult for the local tax payers to air their<br />
difficulties properly and have them redressed. Therefore, in the absence of such a system,<br />
the overall efficiency of the system cannot be gauged.<br />
- Lack of Inter-Municipal Coordination<br />
It has been mentioned earlier that the entire urban spatial spread comprises of several urban<br />
local bodies. In the absence of a Metropolitan Planning Committee ( MPC ), inter municipal<br />
coordination is not possible.<br />
- Low Efficiency of Service Delivery<br />
The obvious outcome of a poorly governed urban area is low level of efficiency of service<br />
delivery. This is seen in various aspects such as extent of collection of property tax and other<br />
taxes, poor maintenance of roads, poor sanitary conditions, inappropriate solid waste<br />
management practices, inadequate street light provision, etc.<br />
- Lack of Reliable Information Base<br />
Accurate and meaningful conclusions can be deduced only when a reliable data base is<br />
available with the organization. Unfortunately, the Agra Nagar Nigam as also the other<br />
organizations do not have reliable data even for the basic parameters/ indicators.<br />
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MDP Consultants in association with Allianz Securities Ltd.