CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Need of the Study 3 1.3 Aim 3 1.4 Objectives 3 1.5 Research Questions 3 1.6 Methodology 4 1.7 Structure of the Report: 5 2 REVIEW OF CONCEPTS RELATED TO LOCAL AREA PLANNING 6 2.1 The 74th Constitutional Amendment 6 2.1.1 Provisions made under the 74th Constitutional Amendment 7 2.1.2 Major findings from the 74th Constitutional Amendment 8 2.2 Participatory Planning 9 2.2.1 Evolution of the concept of Participatory Planning 9 2.2.2 Criticism of the Participatory Planning concept 10 2.3 Local Area Planning 11 2.3.1 Components of a good Local area plan 13 2.3.2 Local Area Planning Initiatives around the World 13 2.3.3 Local area planning initiatives in India 14 2.4 Relation between a Master Plan, LAP and the Municipal Budget 16 2.5 Participatory Budgeting 18 2.6 Local Transport Planning 19 3 INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES 22 3.1 PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN PORTO ALEGRE 22 3.1.1 Evolution of PB 22 3.1.2 History of PB in Brazil 23 3.1.3 The Porto Alegre Story 25 3.2 LOCAL AREA PLANNING IN IRELAND 34 3.2.1 Introduction 34 3.2.2 The Evolution of Local Area Planning in Ireland 35 3.2.3 The Legal Provisions for Local Area Plans 35 3.2.4 The Concept of Local Area Planning in Ireland 36 3.2.5 Process of preparing a Local Area Plan 38 3.2.6 Other Requirements in LAP preparation 40 3.2.7 Phasing the LAP Process 41 3.2.8 Public Consultation in LAP process 42 3.2.9 Key Factors for the success of LAP procedure in Ireland 43 3.2.10 LAP Case Study: Pelletstown Local Area Plan 44 3.3 LOCAL TRANSPORT PLANNING IN ENGLAND 48 3.3.1 Transport and Accessibility Planning in England 48 3.3.2 Concept of Local Transport Plans 49 3.3.3 Content and Duration of LTP?s 49 3.3.4 Ownership of the LTP?s 49 3.3.5 Consultation Requirements and Other Considerations 50 3.3.6 Scope of Local Transport Plans 51 3.3.7 Spatial Coverage of Local Transport Plans 51 3.3.8 Process of Local Transport Plan Preparation 52 3.3.9 Projects under Local Transport Plans 53 3.3.10 Key factors for the success of LTP?s in England 53 3.3.11 LTP Case Study West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan 54 4 PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING INITIATIVE IN PUNE 58 4.1 Introduction 58 4.2 Evolution of Participatory Budgeting 58 4.3 Process of Participatory Budgeting in Pune 60 4.3.1 Process facilitated by the UCD Department of PMC 61 4.3.2 Process facilitated through PMC?s Zonal and Ward Offices 62 4.4 PB Process adopted in each Ward 62 4.5 Growth of the PB process over the years 64 4.6 Future of the PB initiative in Pune 65 5 LOCAL AREA PLANNING INITIATIVE IN PUNE 67 5.1 Initiatives in the City 67 5.2 Need for Local Area Planning in Pune 67 5.3 Local Area Plan Initiative in Pune 68 5.3.1 Pilot areas for preparing Local Area Plans 69 5.3.2 Methodology Adopted for preparing LAP?s 70 5.3.3 Expected outcome of the LAP process 71 5.4 Lessons from the LAP Initiative 71 6 WARD LEVEL INITIATIVES IN BANGALORE 73 6.1 Introduction 73 6.2 Initiatives by Janaagraha 74 6.2.1 Ward Works Campaign (2001) 74 6.2.2 PROOF Campaign (2002) 75 6.2.3 Ward Vision Campaign (2003) 76 6.2.4 Ward Infrastructure Index (2010) 76 6.3 Lessons from the Ward Level Initiatives in Bangalore 79 7 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 80 7.1 Introduction 80 7.2 Comparison of Participatory Budgeting models 80 7.2.1 The Porto Alegre model versus PB in Pune 80 7.3 Comparing the Local Area Planning Initiatives 86 7.3.1 LAP practice in Ireland versus the initiatives in Pune and Bangalore 86 7.4 Comparing Institutional setup of similar Initiatives 90 7.5 Inferences from the Comparative analysis 91 8 FRAMEWORK FOR WARD LEVEL PLANNING 92 8.1 Introduction to the Ward Level Planning Mechanism 92 8.2 Institutional Structure 93 8.2.1 Proposed Institutional Setup 94 8.3 Legislative Framework 95 8.4 Proposed Phasing and Framework for Ward Level Planning 96 8.5 Outcomes of the Ward Level Planning Process 99 8.5.1 Ward Area Plan 99 8.5.2 Annual PB Report 100 8.6 Conclusion 101 ANNEXURES 102 Participatory Budgeting ? Questionnaire 102 Local Area Planning - Questionnaire 103 BIBLIOGRAPHY 104