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change-of-use licence, allegedly due to Vadra's political connections.
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DLF has built impressive-looking office blocks, some of which would not look out of
place on the Hong Kong waterfront. But, along with other developers and Haryana's state
government, it did not provide the basic infrastructure needed for an area that grew to a
population of 1.5m by 2011, with 3.7m forecast by 2021. In an interview in 2011, Singh
admitted that 'the city is based on archaic planning norms', adding (apparently to deflect
the criticism) that there were 'big roads, golf courses' in later phases of DLF's develop-
and high-rises, but not water or sewage', the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
said in 2012.
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'Gurgaon is drowning in its own excreta,' warned the centre's director general, Sunita
Narain. In 2021 Gurgaon would need 666m litres of water a day, she said, but would on
present plans only be able to treat and supply 573m litres. It would be generating 533m
litres of sewage daily, but have a capacity to treat just 255m litres. Chalta hai?
Notes
'Three-fourths of Indian cities functioning without a Master Plan', Sudhir Krishna,
Urban Development Secretary, reported in
The Hindu
, 30 September 2012
'Excreta Matters', Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Delhi 2012,
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and
'Back to the Village',
http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/momgandhi/chap76.htm
'India's Urban Awakening - building inclusive cities', McKinsey Global Institute,
April 2010
Ajit Mohan, 'Weekend Panorama: Who Will Champion India's Cities?', 'India
RealTime'
,
10 September 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/09/10/
Nandan Nilekani,
Imagining India
, pp. 209-232, Penguin 2008
In conversation with JE, March 2013
In conversation with JE, April 2013
'Inside the slums, Light in the darkness',
The Economist
, 17 January 2005,
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