India’s new urban resilience framework
The framework matters because Indian cities carry growing climate and infrastructure risk while municipal capacity and disaster financing remain uneven.
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Why is this in the news?
India has introduced a coordinated approach to help urban local bodies identify climate and disaster risks, prepare investible resilience projects and connect them to appropriate financing mechanisms.
The examination value lies beyond the announcement. The issue connects the constitutional position of municipalities with disaster governance, public finance, infrastructure planning and climate adaptation.
What problem is the framework attempting to solve?
Urban risks are interconnected: extreme rainfall can overwhelm drainage, interrupt transport and power, damage informal settlements and create a public-health emergency. Yet responsibility and financing are often distributed across agencies that plan separately.
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