74th Amendment Act envisioned a third-tier government at the urban level in the 1990s. Localization of government was deemed important because it creates checks and balances of government, and brings democracy into the political system, that is public participation. Plus having citizens participate in the...
हिंदी संस्करण के लिए, कृपया यहां क्लिक करें Public Consultation Meeting for the Urban Agriculture Policy Draft (Organized by Working Group on Urban Agriculture Policy in Delhi and People’s Resource Centre) [A copy of the Draft can be accessed here] Urban and peri-urban agriculture has...
[आरोन वॉनसिन्त्यां द्वारा लिखा गया लेख ‘शहरी मछली तालाब’ मूल रूप से ‘लो-टेक मैगज़ीन’ में मार्च 2021 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। इसका हिन्दी में अनुवाद करने और उसे प्रकाशित करने की अनुमति देने के लिए आरोन और ‘लो-टेक मैगज़ीन’ के सम्पादक क्रिस डेकर का धन्यवाद।...
The Fifth Edition of Beejpatra explores the symbiotic association between ‘waste’ and urban agriculture. Under capitalist urbanisation, waste is overproduction and a ‘non-value’ that can neither be consumed nor be invested back into the process of production. The production process itself is a linear rather...
Beejpatra began as an attempt to provide a space for the urban farming community to present, talk about and propagate different ways in which citizens can make cities beautiful, socially just, more self-reliant, and ecological. It became a place to save and share the knowledge,...
The problems lurking in the prevalent system have initiated an urgent need to reimagine the structure of governance and the process of planning undertaken in the urban centres. Various people’s movements and initiatives also point towards the many disabilities rampant in the current governance system...
The uncontrolled and destructive urbanisation has badly impacted the health of all rivers. Large scale damming, the concretisation of river channels, real estate development on the flood plains and dumping of wastewater have altered the very nature of the rivers and has endangered their mere...
Context Unprecedented flood situations occurred in many cities of the country and the world this year, severely affecting urban life. Today urbanization has become synonymous with the conversion of cultivable lands and commons into dense webs of concrete and asphalt and their transfer to private...
– Akshita Rawat [Originally published in The Wire.in] The draft plan is exclusionary in its vision and approach as DDA has made no efforts to reach out to stakeholders like agricultural workers, farmers, residents of “unauthorised” colonies, etc. “The right to the city is, therefore,...
Registration Link People’s Resource Centre invites you to an online discussion on the need for localization of governance and planning in Indian cities. This is the second session in continuation of our ongoing series to imagine alternatives and present people’s initiatives around the idea that...