Agency and Access under Decentralized Governance: Water Supply and Sanitation in Kolkata City
Published By: Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR) | Published Date: February, 01 , 2009Ensuring sustainable access to basic services in urban India has continued to remain a major challenge for civic bodies. A fast growing urban population has exerted great pressure on the provisioning of these indispensable services. This paper discusses the issues in agency and access to basic services as drinking water and sanitation in the bustling eastern Indian city of Kolkata. While availability of water per se has not been a constraint in the city, access to basic services has been uneven underscoring possible dysfunctionalities in urban governance.
Author(s): Keshab Das | Posted on: Jan 26, 2016 | Views() | Download (167)