Abstract: The 74th amendment mandates urban local bodies to take up public health issues, sanitation and solid waste management largely on their own. Small urban centres, however, lack financial and technical capabilities to design such projects. Recent interventions cater to big cities resulting in further marginalisation of smaller centres.
The author is Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, E-mail: rbbhagat@iips.net
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