Aizawl Case Study

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1 Introduction
Aizawl is the capital of Mizoram (Land of the Mizos), a tiny mountainous state in the southern tip of north-east India. Mizoram is one of the states in India. It is a landlocked state cornered by Bangladesh in the west, Myanmar in the east and south, Tripura in the west and Manipur and Assam in the north. The Tropic of Cancer passes through the middle of state just south not far from Aizawl. It lies between latitude 23°43′38″N and longitude 92°43′04″E. The area is 457 Sq Km (176 Sq mi) and the population according to 2011 census is 2,93,416.
The traditionally based local governing institution known as Village Council carried on the administration of the local area since 1954. Village Council was constituted in every locality …show more content…

It was launched in 2005 for a seven-year period (up to March 2012) to encourage cities to initiate steps for bringing phased improvements in their civic service levels. The government has extended the tenure of the mission for two years, i.e., from April 2012 to March 31, 2014. JNNURM is a huge mission which relates primarily to development in the context of urban conglomerates focusing to the Indian cities. JNNURM aims at creating ‘economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive Cities’ by a strategy of upgrading the social and economic infrastructure in cities, provision of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) and wide-ranging urban sector reforms to strengthen municipal governance in accordance with the 74th CAA …show more content…

Authority was seldom exercised in the same manner across different fields. In fact, Village Council was not a development body and it was an administrative agency at the local level performing line agency functions in the implementation of various policies of the different government departments. This resulted into the complexities of functions and performance and confusion over responsibilities. A wide gap between Village Council and State Government was a big problem. The necessity of empowering, strengthening and decentralizing the local body was felt throughout a very long period. There was an ineffective and unsystematic local body known as Village Council in view of allocation of resources, planning, financing, and implementation of different government programmes. But, the challenge that whether the new Urban Local Body replacing the Village Council would

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