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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 />

96<br />

MDP Consultants in association with Allianz Securities Ltd.

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