Urban planning in India then must necessarily be broader and more long-term in scope to embrace not just big cities but small towns and think both in terms of optimising land use and enabling people. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, when it was launched in 2005, was promoted as an idea whose time had come. But the administrative traction that the idea required was clearly missing. And nothing symbolises this more than Mumbai. The city the prime minister had once promised to turn into a Shanghai has to sometimes do battle with the darkness of the night because it is starved of power.
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