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Over the years, the quality of life in cities all over India has deteriorated. Urban India is faced with master plan violations, congestions, cramming of residential layouts in unauthorised and unplanned areas, and crumbling or inadequate infrastructure delivery systems, resulting in degradation of sanitary and environmental conditions. With a view to deliberating this important issue, a group of veteran development professionals, assembled by the Centre for Symbiosis of Technology, Environment & Management (STEM), early last year, brought out a White Paper entitled Town Planing at Crossroads: Crisis in Urban Development and Governance. International