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Municipalika, the 11th International Conference and Exhibi-tion on Good Urban Governance for Safe, Healthy, Green,

Inclusive & Smart Cities, was held at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi-NCR on March 13-15, 2013, with more than 850 del-egates from 112 cities within the country and abroad taking part. Mayors, municipal commissioners and secretaries to govern-ments dealing with municipal administration, local self gov-ernment, city managers, town planners, architects, engineers, Urban Transport Specialists, E-Governance Experts, Urban Util-ity managers, private sector and citizens’ groups from mega and metro cities to small- and medium-sized towns participated in

this three-day annual mega event.Municipalika 2013 was organised with the active support of

the Government of India, the Ministry of Urban Development and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and under the patronage of UN-Habitat, as well as other state, national and international urban stakeholder institutions. Among the lead partners were the Sumer Group, United Technologies Corpora-tion, GIZ and Organic Recycling Systems. Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Cities Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) were Knowledge Partners. Magic Bricks, India’s premier property portal, was the

Municipalika 2013 draws up blueprint for Sustainable Cities

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Online Partner. Urban News Digest was the official publication.Municipalika 2013 was inaugurated by Dr Sudhir Krishna,

Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, and presided over by Arun Kumar Misra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India.

In his inaugural address, Dr Sudhir Krishna referred to the significant initiatives taken under JNNURM Phase I for urban reform, as well as new initiatives for improving the basic infra-structure gradation for civic services. With the doubling of the urban population and the greater need for city infrastructure, the government is planning enhanced development under Phase II of JNNURM, he said, which will include far-reaching initiatives for improving transportation, water and waste management. The need for capacity building and improving the governance mech-anism for speedy urban delivery systems will also be covered.

In his presidential address, Arun Kumar Misra spoke of the mammoth need for urban housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) and low income groups, and for a multi-pronged approach to make affordable housing a reality. He also high-lighted the problems of slum housing for sheltering a popula-tion of nearly 90 million and the way forward to create slum-free cities. A holistic approach for affordable housing and slum-free cities is required, he said, and he also referred to some positive initiatives for urban housing through interest differential, cost-effective technologies and innovative use of land.

Rick Fedrizzi, Chairman, World Green Building Council in his theme address spoke on sustainable urban development in the context of the climate change crisis. He also stressed the need for optimum and efficient use of resources – water, land, energy and renewable energies – and the support national, provincial and local city governments can give to encourage initiatives for sustainable green built environments, with reference to global examples.

UN-Habitat’s flagship initiatives towards building a better urban future – World Urban Campaign and ‘I am a City Changer’ campaign – were showcased at Municipalika 2013 with a view to

raising civic awareness on urban issues among citizens.In a video message from Nairobi, Dr Joan Clos, Executive

Director, UN-Habitat, congratulated the Government of India and the organiser, Good Governance India Foundation, for mak-ing possible an important event like Municipalika. The chal-lenges posed by massive urbanisation are putting a stress on national and local governments, he said, but despite these chal-lenges, a city is an engine of growth and governments collect most of their taxes from urban areas. He also emphasised the need for every country to have a National Urban Policy in place in order to address problems effectively. Dr Kulwant Singh, Regional Advi-sor, United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Hab-itat) described the challenges currently posed by rapid urban development.

A French delegation comprising mayors, local government representatives, technocrats, architects, representatives of UBI France (The French Trade Commission in India responsible for helping French companies in their business development) par-ticipated in Municipalika 2013 in a big way, sharing their varied experiences and expertise.

Initiatives taken by state governments like Rajasthan were projected by Dr G S Sandhu, Additional Chief Secretary, Hous-ing, Urban Development and Local-Self Government, Govern-ment of Rajasthan. Rajasthan is the first state to have a state commission on urbanisation, he said, and explained the state’s commitment to solving the problem of urban transportation in the next few years. He also spoke about the various initiatives of the state government, including affordable housing for the poor, energy efficient street lighting etc.

In a bid to give a platform to the urban creative minds from schools of planning and architecture, engineering colleges and IITs in the development of housing and urban infrastructure, Municipalika 2013 introduced the Urban Innovation Challenge, a competition in collaboration with UTC and Ethos. Some 53 entries were received from top institutions of India for the four categories of the competition: post graduate and under graduate


levels covering macro and micro dimensions of the built environ-ment – “Sustainable Cities and Townships” and “Green Build-ings and Habitats”. Award-winning students were given GGIF-Municipalika Urban Innovation Awards 2013 and presented their themes to a panel of experts.

The ‘Planning and Design Sourcebook for Integrated City Development’ was released, which was brought out by Atkins as a tool for a pilot low carbon approach to master city planning based on studies in Mysore and Madurai.

There were 10 conference sessions in three days, each high-lighting the challenges, major initiatives and actionable agenda needed for creating vibrant, dynamic, low carbon-based, sus-tainable and inclusive cities. The 10 sessions had more than 120 presentations by expert speakers followed by high-quality floor interactions.

With a focus on Future Cities, three vision addresses were presented by Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations; Rick Fedrizzi, Chairman, World Green Building Council and T Nanda Kumar, Member, National Disaster Management Authority, Gov-ernment of India.

One of the significant segments of the event was the Open House, which provided an opportunity for citizens to raise their concerns with mayors and city managers. In this interface ses-sion, many issues related to the inclusion of citizens in the city development process, as well as ensuring timely services deliv-ery by local bodies, came up for debate. The need for active

collaboration and cooperation with citizens’ groups in solving challenges of cities came into sharp focus.

Observations and recommendations from the entire confer-ence were summed up by V Suresh, Convenor of Municipalika.

The exhibition segment, consisting of 100 exhibitors includ-ing 15 city authorities, showcased technologies, services, prod-ucts, equipment, machineries and managerial systems in a com-mon space of more than 7,000 sq mts and was appreciated by all. On display were live demonstrations of products from compa-nies such as Crompton Greaves, Vectus Industries, Force Motors, Excel Industries, Phillips Electronics India, Lubrizol, George Fischer, Otto Waste, Organic Recycling, Hindustan Colas, Time Technoplast, Horizon Technology, HCL, SAP, Honeywell Inter-national and many more. Awards were given to participants for unique and innovative product displays.

Sanjiv Agarwal, Founder of Good Governance India Foun-dation, said the conference segment of Municipalika is organ-ised by Good Governance India Foundation, a registered NGO, while the exhibition logistics are handled by Fairfest Media Limited, a leading trade show organiser. He pointed out that Municipalika has over the last 10 years been organised in mega-cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmed-abad, Bangalore and Chennai and has made a distinct impact by providing a forum for learning and sharing experiences among all urban stakeholders. Now the 11th Municipalika is being held in Tier-II city of Greater Noida, part of the development of the National Capital Region.

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The vision addresses on Future Cities saw delib-

erations by three stalwarts: Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Indian Coun-cil for Research on Interna-tional Economic Relations; T Nanda Kumar, Member of National Disaster Manage-ment Authority and Richard Fedrizzi, Chairman of World Green Building Council.

In her vision address, Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia said JNNURM was the best thing to happen to the urban devel-opment sector in recent times, but stressed the importance of full State/Centre cooperation in order to meet its objectives.

According to Dr Ahluwalia,

the phenomenal growth India has achieved over the last two decades is city-driven. If India wants to continue with its robust economic growth, she said, “it needs to provide proper infrastructure for the city”. There is also an urgent need to create adequate jobs

for the burgeoning urban pop-ulation that will contribute sig-nificantly to economic devel-opment and facilitate overall growth, she said.

She also expressed her sat-isfaction that for the first time in the budget, the finance min-ister talked about the impor-tance of solid waste manage-

ment, underlining the benefit of being able to transform solid waste into clean energy.

She also underlined the need for adequate capac-ity building and for creating implementing capabilities in local bodies. The possibility of enhancing the funding needs through a combination of sub-sidy and innovative financ-ing mechanisms was also highlighted.

In his vision address, Rich-ard Fedrizzi voiced his strong opinion on the need for green cities, saying a green city can truly become a healthy city. Given the drastic effects of global warming and climate change, the carbon footprint of various development activities must be reduced, he said. Gov-ernmental policy interventions and support for sustainable development of green-built environments would encour-age the development of prod-uct technologies and services, he said, leading to an entire green building movement.

T Nanda Kumar high-lighted the importance of safe and resilient construction in order to save life and property in the aftermath of natural and man-made calamities. A para-digm shift is required for cre-ating public awareness, he said, as well as the putting in place of pre-disaster safe mit-igation practices as opposed to the present trend of post-disaster relief and response. He also spoke in depth about government relief and reha-bilitation measures for victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy and of the need for nominal tax for safe and uninterrupted public services rather than free ser-vices with no reliability. He also highlighted the importance of the public’s voice in the devel-opment of a city.

Experts call for safe, green future cities

“Municipalika is very important and serves a very useful purpose. I hope we have more of these in our country because we need to build awareness and bring all these people together to have a dialogue.”

Dr Isher Judge AhluwaliaChairperson, Indian Council for Research on

International Economic Relations

“I think Municipalika is very important for regional areas, cities and communities, to know their political leaders are looking at sustainability as a strategy for the future. Most importantly what you are hearing here is the idea that

human health can be enhanced from buildings, from walkable communities, from safe drinking water, from all the things Municipalika is bringing forward. We have the ability to really stimulate our cities and communities and inspire people to a more sustainable world. I think [Municipalika] is going to contribute to the overall responsible rapid development of India.”

Rick FedrizziFounder, President & CEO, U.S. Green Building Council and

Chairman, World Green Building Council

“It is important to understand the aspirations

of people and to try and find solutions. This event helps initiate discussion on issues related to urban development. These discussions also help in sensitising people. Mayors, municipal commissioners and chief executive officers present at the conference will probably go back and look at the cities in a different light.”

T. Nanda KumarMember, National Disaster

Management Authority, Government of India


Municipalika 2013 saw the launch of The

Urban Innovation Challenge (UIC), an exciting design ideas competition for bright, young budding engineers, architects and planners to showcase solutions to urban challenges.

Winners of the four cate-gories – Post Graduate Macro, Post Graduate Micro, Under Graduate Macro and Under Graduate Micro – presented their ideas to a distinguished panel of experts at the Munic-ipalika event.

Joint winners in the Post Graduate Macro section were students from New Delhi’s School of Planning and Archi-tecture and CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Pragnya Prakash, Neelan-jan Ganguly and Sagar Fulari from the School of Planning and Architecture picked up the award for their exciting presentation on ‘Tool to Judge Sustainable Development in Cities’, while Gaurav Dilip Arbooj from CEPT Univer-sity took the prize for offering a new vision on ‘Parivartan- Redefining the Meaning of Urban Development in Kath-putly Colony’.

SPA New Delhi’s Fulari said, “This competition comes at a crucial juncture of my career. It is good to be in a gath-ering of professionals who are

commenting on and critically assessing our projects. I am happy that we took part in the Urban Innovation Challenge. It was an eye-opener.”

CEPT’s Arbooj said the for-mat of UIC was very interest-ing because it posed a chal-lenge to students to first identify a problem in their city, put the problem in the Macro or the Micro category, and then come up with a solution.

In the Post Graduate Micro category, Somreeta Das, Mai-treyi Yellapragada and San-tanu Das from IIT, Kharag-pur received the award for their concept on ‘Tessellation Models to Tackle Issues in Slum Housing Programmes’.

Somreeta Das and Yell-apragada also spoke about the importance of competitions like the UIC, saying these offer them opportunities to show-case their investigative exper-iments to a larger audience.

In the Under Gradu-ate Micro Category, Amruta Chandrakant Thakur from Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai won the award for the presentation on ‘Affordable Housing for Mill Workers’.

After visiting the exhibi-tion she said, “It was good to know that the ideas that the competition reflected are already being implemented by various governmental bodies. I got to know about such initiatives after interacting with various government offi-cials at Municipalika.”

In the Under Graduate Macro Category, Bhavin Kan-tilal Patel from Sir JJ Col-lege of Architecture, Mum-bai received the award for his innovative concept on ‘Urban Refuse Recycling Project’.

“It is good to be a part of

Municipalika. I got to know about various innovations in the conference and the exhibi-tion,” Patel said.

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“I have had the honour of being at Municipalika for a number of years and it gets better each year. The exhibitor area gets stronger, more technology is displayed, speakers are better, and I am very encouraged by this growth. It

provides the kind of education and opportunities for people to learn what’s going on in cities in countries around the world and to talk to people about the same problems they have in their own cities.”

Mark GinsbergSenior Fellow

U.S. Green Building Council

“The UTC sponsored this competition [the Urban Innovation Challenge] as we consider ourselves a very innovative company. Unless you catch talent at a young age, you won’t get the kind of brilliance we have today.”

Kalyanaraman BalakrishnanDirector, Government Policy & Regulatory Affairs

United Technologies Corporation


Minister of Urban Development & Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India

Municipalika 2013 provides a platform for the policy makers, city managers, urban professionals and other stakeholders to discuss, debate, interact on urban issues and come up with specific inputs for the benefit of the urban centres of India.

My best wishes to the delegates of Municipalika who have come from different cities and states and hope you would have a rich experience in the three days conference and exhibition and benefit from the experiences from various cities to deal with the solutions for the various challenges faced by cities and citizens.

“The 11th edition of Municipalika is one of the best exhibition-cum-seminars of recent times. The list of participants comprises not only the top people from India but also from democracies and municipalities across the world. It’s a very well-organised exhibition and I compliment

all the organisers for the wonderful work they have put in. I hope Municipalika will bring together the technology and technology-users for the benefit of both, with the ultimate winner being the people.”

Dr Sudhir KrishnaSecretary

Ministry of Urban DevelopmentGovernment of India

“I compliment the Municipalika team for organising this wonderful conference and exhibition. I wonder how much effort has gone into organising an event of this enormous scale and size. This calls for a great deal of organisation and the Municipalika team deserves full credit. I am sure the next three days will be extremely fruitful.”

Arun Kumar MisraSecretary

Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty AlleviationGovernment of India

Fact File100 Exhibitors 850 Conference delegates 7,000 sq m Total exhibit space 3,900 Exhibition visitors 112 Cities and towns

Kamal Nath Ajay MakenMinister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India


I congratulate the Government of India and organisers of Municipalika for their sincere efforts in making the event so successful. UN Habitat has a long relationship with India. I really wish you a very successful conference where you can share with the rest of the world your immense expertise in the field of urbanisation.

Dr Joan Clos Executive Director UN-Habitat

Cities are critical to economic growth, but there are significant challenges that exist in the present approach to India’s urbanisation… We have an exhibition on the two campaigns of UN-Habitat - the ‘World Urban Campaign ‘and the ‘I’m a City Changer Campaign’ - at Municipalika, and I invite all of you present at this event to join these campaigns.

It’s a great event that provides a platform for discussion. I don’t think this was happening in India 10 to 20 years ago. The way the exhibition caters for public and private sector allows for the kind of competition that is required for cities and states to come up.

Municipalika is the fourth conference I have been to. All the conferences are

good, very informative and innovative and will definitely help in the growth of my city.

Rajni Dangi

MayorUdaipur Municipal Corporation

At Municipalika we got to know about the new initiatives taken by other cities for the betterment of municipal services. Here we also shared our own vision for making our city slum-free.

Mayors Speak

I am grateful to the organisers of Municipalika

for giving us the opportunity to share the development initiatives in Howrah with the mayors of other cities and foreign dele gates. After participating in the conference, we also came to know about many critical issues related to urban development.

Naini JayaseelanMember SecretaryNCR Planning Board

It is wonderful and I am looking forward to the next Municipalika. Municipalika is an opportunity for people from different parts of the country and world to network together, meet each other, find out what the other is doing, take case studies, find out funding mechanisms and governance methodologies, so everyone can learn from each other.

Sardar Baljit SinghMayor Bathinda Municipal Corporation

We have learned a great deal on urban development-related issues and also came to know about the problems other municipalities are facing. After interacting with mayors of other cities and with foreign delegates, we gathered important information which we will try to implement in our city.

Rekha Verma

Mayor Dewas Municipal Corporation

Mayors from various cities of the world have come to this event and have shared their own success stories in city development. I hope the discussions here will help lawmakers take necessary steps to make our cities better and more beautiful.

It’s impressive to see the cities, states and private sectors all coming together. There is a lot of attention on green – green energy, green sanitation solutions – that’s very impressive. I like the way the exhibition is combined with the conference so you can listen to ideas and you can immediately make the link to the exhibition.

Mira Agarwal

Municipalika is a good event that is

making cities work.

Mayor, North Delhi Municipal Corporation

Mamta JaiswalMayor, Howrah Municipal Corporation

Dr Ratna JainMayor, Kota Municipal Corporation

Dr Kulwant SinghRegional Advisor UN-Habitat

I think Municipalika is very good. It is an institution in India, bringing together people from the private sector, from the cities, from state government and private sector NGOs to really contemplate and exchange ideas.

Dr Regina DubeSenior Advisor & Head Sustainable Urban Habitat, GIZ

Paul SchuttenbeltSouth Asia CoordinatorCities Development Initiative for Asia Dr Sujata S. Govada

Founding & Managing Director Urban Design & Planning Consultants Limited, Hong Kong

I saw the exhibition and I was really amazed at the number of products people in the urban sector can use on waste, water treatment and lighting. I think the exhibition was very good and it was an extremely fruitful three days’ discussion.

Prof KT RavindranTrustee, Indian Heritage Cities Network Foundation


French delegation at Municipalika 2013

A team of officials from French local self governments, and rep-

resentatives from UBIFRANCE (The French Trade Commission in India responsible for helping French com-panies in their business develop-ment) participated in the conference sessions and the exhibition segment of Municipalika 2013.

Claudy Lebreton, President, Department of Cotes-d’Armor and President, Assembly of French Departments, was one of the speak-ers at the Inaugural Session of Munic-ipalika. Talking about the possible areas of co-operation between India and France in urban development, Lebreton mentioned water supply, waste management, transport and heritage at the local self-government level. Lebreton also participated in the Open House – Participatory Cities session of the conference along with mayors from various Indian cities. He shared with the open house the nature of self government in France and also called for more decentralised co-oper-ation initiatives between Indian and French cities.

In the conference session Healthy

Cities - Water Supply, Dr Jacques Manem, Managing Director of the French company Suez Envi-ronnement India, spoke about the multi-process approach to 24x7 water supply. Based on its experience in cit-ies such as Algiers, Jakarta and Jed-dah, the company has developed a multi-pronged strategy that includes the entire water supply chain, a full set of management rules for day-to-day operations and training and empowerment of all employees. This

method is currently applied by Suez Environnement at Malviya Nagar in New Delhi.

In the conference session Healthy Cities - Solid Waste Management, Isa-belle Nicolas, Vice President, Conseil General, in charge of agenda 21, Inter-national Cooperation and European Affairs spoke about the solid waste

management project being imple-mented by the French department of Cotes-d’Armor in Karaikal Munici-pality’s wards with the support of the administration of Union Territory of Puducherry. The project is being initi-ated as part of the bilateral agreement signed between India and France, for decentralised cooperation between states in the two countries.

Meanwhile, in the conference ses-sion Vibrant Cities – Living Heritage, Jean-Michel Despax, Head, Director-ate for International Action of French Local Authorities, Ministry of Exter-nal Affairs, Government of France, spoke about the need for decentral-ised co-operation between French and Indian cities in the area of heritage.

Also, under the umbrella of UBI-FRANCE, two French companies — Suez Environnement India and JCDecaux India displayed their various products and services in the exhibition.

“I am very pleasantly surprised. I found there were lots of professionals here –

mayors who are very devoted and who really want to learn and enrich themselves with examples and good practices from other local governments. This is very important for democracy and also for the people for whom we are responsible.”

Claudy LebretonPresident

Cotes d’Armor Conseil General

“It’s a very well-organised and big fair. It is really useful because it brings

together local government, companies and elected representatives, and enables cities to learn from each other.”

Isabelle NicolasVice President

Conseil General in charge of agenda 21, International Cooperation and

European Affairs


Atkins launches sourcebook for integrated city development at Municipalika 2013

At the inaugural session of Municipalika 2013, Atkins launched its ‘Planning and Design Sourcebook for Inte-grated City Development’, which details the results of a pilot

low-carbon master-planning project in Mysore and Madurai. The project, led by Atkins, one of the world’s largest infra-

structure planning consultancies, and with support from the All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG), was funded by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office through its Prosperity Fund programme to develop and tailor a low-carbon master-planning approach in the India context.

The objective of the project was to show how the car-bon intensity of urbanisation in India can be managed in an integrated way using low-carbon master-planning tools developed by Atkins.

At the launch, Roger Savage, Technical Direc-tor, Atkins Low Carbon Cities said, “Atkins is pleased to be back at Municipalika, this time to launch this sourcebook. The guide is meant for urban local bod-ies and supporting cities to help them develop integrated development plans as well as integrated townships. The guide can help cities in making development plans and master planning.”


Exhibitors Speak

The 11th edition of Municipalika hon-

oured the top exhibi-tors of the exhibition in the presence of dignitar-ies including Dr Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Min-istry of Urban Develop-ment; Dr Jatin V Modi, President, United Cities & Local Government/All India Institute of Local Self Government;

and Naini Jayashee-lan, Member Secretary, National Capital Region Planning Board.

The award for Best Live Demonstration and Display was given to Force Motors Ltd and Excel Industries Ltd. The award for the Best Variety of Solu-tions went to Sumer Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd,

while the Most Inno-vative Product/Proj-ect Award went to Gha-ziabad Development Authority.

The Best Integrated State Participation award went to Gov-ernment of Rajasthan, Department of Urban Development (Hous-ing and Local Self Gov-ernment); Government

of Odisha, Housing and Urban Development Department and Gov-ernment of Jharkhand, Department of Urban Development.

The Mumbai Met-ropolitan Regional Development Author-ity (MMRDA), the Municipal Corpora-tion of Greater Mum-bai and Amdavad

Municipal Corpora-tion were awarded Best City Pavilion. The prize for Best Pavilion (Pri-vate) went to Cromp-ton Greaves Limited, Organic Recycling Pvt. Ltd and Horizon Tech-nologies, and the Best Booth (Private) award went to Philips Elec-tronics India Ltd and Honeywell Analytics.

Top exhibitors awarded at Municipalika 2013

Hirdesh Singh ThakurDeputy General Manager Force Motors Limited

At this exhibition, lots of local body mayors and municipal corporation commissioners are visiting and we are getting good response from them. At Force Motors we are giving complete solutions for municipal bodies, especially for solid waste management, health care and liquid waste management.

Haidar Chandu Z

Senior EngineerInterpump Hydraulics India Pvt. Ltd.

It’s good there are exhibitions like this. Though we are not into direct selling of products, municipalities get a feel of what components are used and the quality we use, so they are happy looking at the products.

Prakash VaidyaGeneral ManagerSumer Infrastructure

Overall impressions in terms of size and the event are good.

Today we got very good response from mayors from various cities who have come and liked the product and technology we have introduced.

Chief EngineerUrban Development Department, Ranchi Government of Jharkhand

This is the first time I have come to Municipalika. It is a good experience; I have learnt many new things and will try to apply them in my own city.

AL Lakra

Rajesh JainManaging DirectorEnhanced Wapp Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.

I think Municipalika has done a very good job in bringing municipal corporations and vendors who work for municipal corporations under one roof. It is helping our business; we have had a lot of municipal corporations come and enquire about our products.

Parth BhavsarExecutive Business Development & DesignCrompton Greaves Limited(Lighting Division)

Cities are getting into new technologies. Municipalities getting into better technology is good for sustainable energy, so future generations will be able to survive in this kind of environment.

Ram IyerProject Director University of Pune, Scitech Park

We have seen good participation from city decision-makers, such as mayors and commissioners. I believe when they go home, they will go with a positive view regarding the science and technology-based inputs and current innovations for urban management.


SegmentsSolid waste management and Recycling / Water and waste water / Urban Infrastructure Development / Urban Transportation and Traffic / Environment Pollution control / Construction and Building Technologies / E Governance and ICD applications / Safety, Security & Disaster management /Cleaning Technologies and Conservancy.A number of cities and municipal corporations also took space in the exhibition to showcase their achievement, best practices, project and programs and share their success stories. This also helped them to initiate dialogues with the representatives from funding agencies, partners and technology providers.

ExhibitionThe exhibition, a one-of-its-kind in the urban governance sector, showcased a variety of technologies, services, products, equipments, machineries and managerial systems incorporated into a common space of over 7,000 sq metres was highly appreciated by Dr Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India and Arun Kumar Misra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Poverty Alleviation, Government of India. This was visited individually by them. Over 100 exhibitors displayed their products, services, ideas and technologies. Among the exhibitors, there were 19 city administrations too. This combination of theory and practices, of discussion backed by actual demonstration, was found to be very useful by the visitors in various technical areas of city management and governance.

Exhibitor ObjectivesThe participation objective of the exhibitors ranged from making business contacts, meeting top-decision makers and generating on the spot business, to meeting clients, launching new products and monitoring competitors activities, among others. Seeking new business contacts was the main objective for 70% of the exhibitors, while for 53% exhibitors, the objective was to meet top decision makers from various state and cities; 56% of the exhibitors said their objective was to promote their brand and 63% said establishing a presence in new market as their primary objective of participation.

More than 68% of the exhibitors achieved their objective fully and are looking forward to participating in the Municipalika next year. Since Municipalika takes place in different cities across the country each year, it provides exhibitors an opportunity to explore new, different and diverse markets. This was one of the strong USPs of the event.

• 11 segments• 100 exhibitors• 7,000 sq m exhibition area• 3,900 professional visitors


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Partner State: Rajasthan “On behalf of the Government of Rajasthan, I would like to convey my thanks to the organisers for inviting me to such an important event. I am also very happy that Rajasthan is participating as a partner state at Municipalika 2013. On behalf of my entire team from Rajasthan, I convey the organisers our best wishes.”

GS SandhuAdditional Chief Secretary

Housing, Urban Development and Local-Self Governments Government of Rajasthan

The Government of Rajasthan gave its full support to this

year’s Municipalika as Partner State, participating in the conference and exhibition segments of the event. Various initiatives of the Rajasthan Government were presented by delegation members, and an informative pavilion in the exhibition showcased the state’s achievements and new projects.

Leading the delegation was GS Sandhu, Additional Chief Secretary, Housing, Urban Development and Local-Self Governments, who was joined by mayors and other officials of the Rajasthan Government.

The Department of Urban Development, Housing and Local Self Government, Government of Rajasthan has started many initiatives during the last two years to promote planned, integrated and sustainable development of urban areas and small and medium towns. Developments include providing basic infrastructural facilities like sewerage, drainage, water supply, solid waste disposal, affordable housing, mass transportation,

recreational centres and other physical and social urban infrastructure development.

Rajasthan has become the pioneering state in declaring and implementing the ‘Affordable Housing Policy 2009’ with a focus on Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Low Income Groups (LIG) through public-private-partnership (PPP).

Some of the other major initiatives of the Government of Rajasthan

in the urban sector are: Rajasthan Municipal Act 2009 (new enactment); master plans for all towns; Slum Redevelopment 2012 policy through PPP; Rajasthan Township policy 2010; Building Regulations 2010 (for Jaipur and other towns of Rajasthan); capacity building for urban local bodies through empanelment of dedicated consultants; policy for Transferable Development Rights and constituting the State Commission on Urbanisation.

V.K. DadhichManaging Director, Rajasthan Avas Vikas & Infrastructure Ltd

K.K.SharmaACE, Directorate of Local BodiesGovernment of Rajasthan

Dr. R. P. SharmaSecretary, Urban Improve-ment Trust, Udaipur

S.K. AsopaSuperintending Engineer, Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project

R.K. VijayvargiyaSenior Town Planner, Govern-ment of Rajasthan


Mamta JaiswalMayor Howrah Municipal Corporation

Akhilesh GautamSenior Advisor GIZ Sustainable Urban Habitat

K RameshAdditional CommissionerGreater Vishakhapatnam Municipal Corporation

K J SohanChairman Planning Committee, Kochi

Strategic Partner

at Municipalika 2013

Dr. Regina DubeDirector Sustainable Urban Habitat, GIZ

Dr. Rachna AroraTechnical Advisor GIZ-IGEP

Dr Omesh BhartiChief Medical Officer Shimla Municipal Corporation

K. BalakrishnanDirector Government Policy & Regulatory Affairs, United Technologies Corporation

Vaishali NandanSenior Advisor GIZ-Sustainable Urban Habitat

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has been operating in India for 60 years. Currently 250 staff members, including 25 seconded personnel and 10 integrated experts are handling sustainable development measures worth about 25 million euros per annum. The services delivered by GIZ draw on a wealth of regional and technical expertise and tried and tested management know-how. This year GIZ was the Strategic Partner of Municipalika 2013.

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified company that provides a broad range of high-technology products and services to the global aerospace and building systems industries. UTC was one of the lead partners of Municipalika 2013. The company also supported the first edition of GGIF-Municipalika Urban Innovation Challenge this year.


Supporting states & cities

Vishal Kumar DevVice-Chairman, Bhubaneswar Development Authority

S. S. Bajaj CEO, Naya Raipur Development Authority

Sanjib Kumar MishraCommissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

This year at Municipalika the Government of Odisha and Government of Jharkhand were the Feature States. While, Amdavad Municipal Corporation and Naya Raipur Development Authority were the Partner Cities. Ranchi Municipal Corporation and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai were the Feature Cities.

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• Significant initiatives have been taken under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNRUM) Phase I in the area of urban reforms. • It is desirable to analyse the unfin-

ished reform agenda for 2013 to see that the reforms are completed within the timeframe, and the government can take up the next generation of reforms by the time Phase II begins.• With the doubling of population

posing major infrastructural challenges, the government plans enhanced develop-ment under Phase II of JNNURM, which will include far-reaching initiatives for improving transportation, water supply and waste management. A need for capac-ity building and improving the governance mechanism for speedy urban delivery sys-tems in Phase II was also recommended. • Cities with vision documents and

City Development Plans have been the ones that have come forward with best practices and well-conceived projects under the JNNURM. The vision document guides a city’s action plan and a sustained support should be provided for actualis-ing all the projects. • The success stories presented by

many Indian cities stand as good exam-ples for the leadership they have shown in implementing the reforms agenda under JNNURM. These stories need to be dis-seminated widely across states and cities, so that they can adapt to benefit from these successful initiatives.• An inclusive and humane approach

covering the needs of all groups, as well as new innovations need to be brought in for master planning in cities. The urban design tools for three dimensional mas-ter planning have also become a felt need. Further, master planning should integrate low-carbon technologies for developing sustainable urban infrastructure.• Civic participation was recog-

nised as crucial a factor for reforms to be effective. It was observed that the poten-tial of decentralisation is immense and should involve stakeholders at the local/micro level. Apart from this the need for intense community participation in mon-itoring and execution of projects was also emphasised. • The deliberations clearly stressed

the need for incremental sustenance and the role of the private sector and commu-nities to bring in resources, technology, management and improved innovations

for housing and infrastructure develop-ment. The new mantra for development has to be Public-Private-People’s Part-nership (PPPP) as against Public-Private-Partnership (PPP).• There should be uniform code of

selection and conduct for mayors and city managers for all local governments. Apart from a uniform code there should be a common cadre for city managers. • The need to strengthen the local

level leadership by fully implementing 74th Constitutional Amendment Act was stressed upon. It was the unanimous view that the existing leadership at the polit-ical, administrative and technical levels should be given the right level of adminis-trative and financial authority, if they are expected to deliver the various respon-sibilities under the 74th Constitutional Amendment.• Professionalism and transparency

of functions is required for efficient city management through capacity building programmes. • Urgent and major awareness-build-

ing measures are required for citizens at all levels regarding vulnerability of all cities in the face of various hazards and calam-ities, so that appropriate mitigation from

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disaster situations is ensured.• All governing departments (local

and state) need to work in an integrated manner with the disaster management authorities in incorporating safety mea-sures at the planning, implementation and maintenance stages of city develop-ment plans and city disaster management plans.• Building rules and codes should

be responsive to disaster threats and responses. • Cities have emerged over centuries.

Thus, it is desirable to take care of the built environment of earlier years in the historic areas and take up heritage conservation initiatives to retain the “soul of the city”.• The master plan for slum-free hous-

ing in the CDP should provide for the mar-ginalised , poor and disadvantaged to cre-ate inclusive and humane cities. • There is a need for a multi-pronged

approach to make affordable housing a reality for the economically weaker

sections (EWS) and low income groups (LIG).• As part of the slum development

strategy under the JNNURM, Integrated Housing and Slum Development Pro-gramme (IHSDP), Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) and Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), urgent efforts were called for creating action plans for slum-free cit-ies and for providing adequate and afford-able shelter and basic services. Along with these services, equal attention should be given for poverty alleviation, skill develop-ment and employment generation.• There should be a holistic approach

towards slum-free cities and positive ini-tiatives for urban housing should be undertaken with the help of interest dif-ferential, cost-effective technologies and innovative use of land.• Cities, which are trying to become

humane and inclusive should cover all groups — haves as well as have-nots. This can only happen when the social housing needs (50%) are also taken along with the affordable housing (LIG & MIG-30%) and premium housing needs (MIG & HIG-20%), through sustained planning and integrated development. All incentives – physical and financial — should be made available and leaders need to think out of the box to find practical solutions that can be implemented in the immediate and

short-term timeframe.• In the context of the climate crisis,

there is a need for optimum and efficient use of natural resources for sustainable urban development. There must be sup-port from national, provincial and local city governments to encourage sustain-able green built environment initiatives.• Till now, 30 cities have been credit-

rated in India. It was observed that munic-ipal bonds have proved to be a good source of resources for urban local bodies. Pooled bond scheme was recommended for smaller local bodies.• The session urban sanitation threw

light on several issues related to the sub-ject. The conference strongly endorsed that sanitation must be provided to all cit-izens AT ANY COST. A major citizenry drive would also be needed for making 100% sanitation a reality. • There should be access to pub-

lic and community toilets that are safe, clean, hygienic and socially and culturally acceptable. Sanitation projects should also be gender sensitive.• There is a need for a major sewage

and sewerage management plan to be taken up for efficient operation and main-tenance of the capital-intensive sewerage systems and sewage treatment plants.• Emphasis was made on the emer-

gent need for solid waste management initiatives, including composting, scien-tific landfills, waste-to-energy projects, biogas, etc. The motto for cities should be waste to wealth, refuse to resource and trash to cash.• The need for a waste water recycling

plant in every city was exhorted. • In the view of the large scale auto-

mobile revolution in cities, the need to

strengthen less polluting and energy-effi-cient public transportation modes was emphasised.• Application of low carbon city mas-

ter planning at both macro and micro level to improve resource efficiency is required. The source book released by Atkins at Municipalika should be widely dissem-inated for sustainable urban planning efforts.• There is a clear need for doubling the

urban land foot print from the present 3% to 6% to meet the needs of a growing urban population. Thus, considering the limited availability of the land, there is sufficient scope to increase Floor Area Ratio (FAR)/ Floor Space Index (FSI) including Trans-fer of Development Rights (TDR) com-mensurate with infrastructure addition.• There is an imminent need for insti-

tutionalising the housing data preparation for assessing the housing demand in vari-ous cities, and also for interventions from the supply side including information on housing statistics from urban local bodies, Housing Finance Institutions (HFIs), real estate consultants and portals. • E-Governance has to be given top

priority in the reform agenda for cities to bring in transparency, information shar-ing, provision of services to citizens in a user friendly efficient manner.• Modern tools of GIS/GPS and

Remote Sensing need to be utilised for city based information system.• The need for an urban services reg-

ulator for ensuring quality of services and appropriate pricing emerged as one of the recommendations.• Few pilot projects taken up should

serve as models for creating integrated, self-contained and inclusive townships.

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