City demolished
The Delhi Development Authority is primarily responsible for the Capital being turned into a speculator’s paradise, land corruption, escalating realty prices, disastrous town planning, and the mainstreaming of illegality. What, then, are the alternatives? It is suggested that if the city's commercial, institutional, industrial, and income-generating capacity is not to be permanently hampered, it is important that the development of the Delhi metropolitan area and the National Capital Region (NCR) be closely meshed.Also, public-private partnership through mixed land-use is the only way to arrest the continuing downward spiral..........MORE
 
 
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H Y Sharada Prasad
A Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he served as information Advisor to Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was formerly a trustee of IGNCA and chairman of NID.
Syeda S Hameed
is a Member of the Planning Commission. She is the founder member of Muslim Women's Forum and a founder trustee of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia.

Cmde C Uday Bhaskar
is deputy director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.


Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
a veteran journalist and commentator, is
currently Director, School of Convergence, New Delhi.