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Chapter 6 Participative Urban Planning 6.1 The role of the municipality 6.1.1 The municipality is a local government in its own right with a clearly mandated functional domain. Of late though, there have been moves to ensure equal opportunities to urban citizens to participate in municipal planning through sub-municipal groupings. While nominated ward committees are mandated by the Constitution, several states, prompted by the reform conditions of JNNURM, have provided for citizen participation in urban planning through the mechanism of Area Sabhas organised below the ward committees. Apart from being entrusted certain planning responsibilities of its own, the Area Sabha also plays a part in the constitution of the ward committee wherever mandated. In such circumstances, the municipalities have the added responsibility of facilitating the ward committee wherever mandated, as well as facilitating Area Sabha planning. This they do by providing pooled expertise and a platform for coordinating planning exercises and negotiations between wards within their jurisdiction. Therefore, the responsibilities of a municipality sabha are similar to those of the Intermediate and District Panchayat (Box 40). Box 40: Duties of the municipality Take a district vision document and undertake, on its basis, a separate visioning exercise and communicate this to the ward committees. Identify and prioritise works within its exclusive functional domain, based upon the district stock-taking document and vision. Undertake an additional exercise of ‘co-opting’ ward committee or ward level works after considering the outputs of ward committees or the ward’s draft vision and plan, as also its own plan. (This is a negotiated back and forth exercise, which is facilitated by PlanPlus) 6.1.2 In fulfilling its first role, the municipality is expected to prepare five yearly and annual plans in accordance with activity mapping and based on feedback from ward committees or the ward level regarding works outside their purview, such as interward road formation and multi-ward water supply structures (See Box 41). Box 41 Original plans Identify and prioritise fresh works that fall entirely within the functional domain of municipalities. ‘Co-opted works’ plan Identify works covered by following criteria from ward committee or ward level plans and co-opt them into the municipality plan. These include: • works that impact other wards, such as laying of major roads to ease traffic; and • works that can be dropped in favour of more efficient and cost-effective networked solutions by the municipality (for example, multi-ward water distribution systems). 98
Manual for Integrated District Planning 6.1.3 Once these processes are completed, the municipality will prepare a single document, the municipality plan document. This document will also include the spatial capturing of prioritised solutions on maps, thus completing the process of spatial presentation of plans, which commenced with the spatial capturing of issues at each ward level and Area Sabha. This plan would also prepare a separate table that consolidates all the prioritised sector wise financial outlays with the appropriate resources in a format similar to that in Box 36. To complete the exercise, the municipality can also identify those works or solutions that fall outside its purview, but that could be taken up at a higher level. 6.2 Sequence of municipal plan preparation: Similar to the approach for the rural areas, the vision document for the district would be communicated by the District Planning Committee to all municipalities in the district, for use in their individual envisioning and planning exercises. The first exercise would be to discuss the vision document in the municipality amongst a meeting of all the stakeholders. The meeting will include ward representatives and elected representatives of the municipality. (Box 42). Box 42 Presentation of district vision Representatives of ward committee, municipality & DPC DPC, municipality, ward representative Meeting of representatives of DPC, municipalities, ward committees. DPC, representative Presentation of district vision and stock-taking document Stored in district database system Municipality representative Individual concerns addressed & doubts clarified Feedback and finalisation of the vision Once the visioning process is completed, the municipality would prepare its first draft plan in a second workshop. The workflow for this is given in Box 43. The vision-cum-first draft plan would be placed in the public domain for use in the Area Sabhas and the ward committees or ward level. The handbook follows the processes envisaged for urban participation in the JNNURM guidelines. Box 44 describes the participatory structures envisaged under these guidelines, as incorporated into the model Nagar Sabha bill circulated for adoption by states through the JNNURM guidelines. 99
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