1. Future Cities : Ensuring World Class Civic Amenities in Urban India
Team :
Saransh Agrawal
B.Arch. II
IIT Roorkee
Naman Sharma
B.Arch. II
IIT Roorkee
Divyae Mittal
B.Arch. II
IIT Roorkee
Tejas Rawal
Ph.D. Scholar
IIT Roorkee
Shivam Gupta
B.Arch. V
IIT Roorkee

2. India is facing the problem of Pseudo Urbanization i.e. the condition in which a large city has
formed in an area without a functional infrastructure to support it.
Major problems
• Lack of coordination between physical planning
strategies and financial planning.
Challenges for Urban India
• Statistics show that urban population has increased from 10.8%
to 31.2% in a 20th century without any major infrastructure
development.
• Also the rate of increase of urban population has also increased
exponentially in past 50 years.
• This happens largely because of so-called "rural push“ i.e.
factors which push people from the countryside into the cities,
without the city being prepared to accept them.
• Lack of solid waste management facilities (for
treatment and disposal).
• Lack of drainage and sewage network specially in
newly developed areas.

3. Commissioning
Body
Integrated
Public Services
Solid Waste
Management
We propose solution for the lack of public satisfaction
and the wastage of government capital due to improper
planning of a project (esp. construction)
Combining intra city metro transport with a central
cooling earth air tunnel and a common utility duct for
future cities.
We propose a new recycling agency funded by industries
to recycle their waste products.
Proposed solutions for these major challenges

4. Proposal for setting up a Commissioning Body
• Public dissatisfaction towards government projects.
• Poor quality of construction and maintenance.
• No effective quality checks or work reviews.
• There is a lack of clarity over departmental responsibilities for development,
maintenance and enforcement.
• Lack of coordination and no common database for management.
• Ensuring the quality and timely completion of projects right from the stage of
planning to completion of a project which can be extended up to maintenance
period also, depending upon the project.
• Public can also keep check by the virtue of decision of withholding their share of
tax.
• A Commissioning Body is proposed which will be a third party monitoring
agency for the government projects of construction and maintenance (buildings,
flyovers, roads etc.).
• The proposed body will be answerable only to the judiciary but shall be
financially controlled both by public and by state administration. Therefore,
maximizing public satisfaction and transparency.
What is
Commissioning
Body ?
Why this
Commissioning
Body ?
Functions of
Commissioning
Body
• This body will earn from administration and will also receive a fixed share of
state tax given to the government.

5. Framework of proposed Commissioning Body
Review
Amendments and
negotiations
Initial Report
Regular Quality Checks (site visit)
Final Report
Project Tested and Verified
Agency gets the predefined percentage of state tax
Administration
gets the amount
meant for C.A.
Project for a new
flyover approved
Project given to a govt.
agency e.g. HUDA
As per the
contract document
checks at various stages
Of construction
Copy of proposal
sent
Public representative will
verify the project and will
give the green signal for
payment.

6. Integrated Public Services
Common Utility Duct
Metro Tunnel
Earth Air Tunnel
A proposal for new upcoming cities, town
centers and sub metros to integrate all the
public services.
Aimed at reducing the government
expenditure on construction of various
services separately.
It also proposes to integrate
transport(metro) with services for new
metro cities resulting in further cost
reduction.
Three major components of this integrated
public services plan are :
Metro Tunnel, Common Utility Duct,
Earth Air Tunnel

7. Common Utility Duct
• A common utility duct, sometimes called a common utility conduit, is any structure – above, on, or
below ground – that carries more than two types of public utility lines. However, the phrase often
refers specifically to underground utility tunnels.
Traditional setting and maintenance Setting and maintenance in Common Duct
Services that can be housed in this common utility duct :
Optical fiber cables Electric supply cables Water supply lines Telephone cables Sewer pipelines
Benefit for Utility agencies Benefit for Road authority Benefit for the Public
1.Saving in burying and maintenance
2.Easing the utility renewing
3.Improvement of transmission quality
4.Lengthen the utility lifetime
5.Easing the checking and inspection
1.Saving in road maintenance
2.Extension of road lifetime
3.Maintain traffic safety
4.Promote government image
1.Less road excavation, improve life
quality
2.Improve city appearance
3.Better traffic condition
Benefits of common utility duct :

8. Benefits of Earth Air Tunnel :
• Air Tunnel preferably 20-25 m deep as temperature is
usually 24C.
• Cost of Tunnel partially borne by land proprietors who
in turn will receive cool air.
• Natural air will be fed to the tunnel at some points
and will be circulated underground through tunnel to
make it cool.
Earth Air Tunnel
Benefit for proprietor Benefit for Government Benefit for the Public
1.More power saving
2.Earning of carbon credits, LEED and GRIHA
ratings
3.No bothering for maintenance
1.Reduction in cost
2.Partial investment required
as proprietor is also investing
3.Promote government image
1.Less pollution as no CFCs are
released
2.Improve city appearance
3.Conventional AC system not
required
Earth Air Tunnel

9. Proposed Solid Waste Treatment Plan
• We propose a new law to be passed which enforces industries to recycle/reuse a
certain amount (preferably 60-70%) of waste products they produce.
• To help the industries, a new Recycling Agency which will be responsible for
recycling of waste products.
• It will take membership fees from each industry who wants to enroll in its plan..
•
• Currently, different types of solid waste streams in the city, including municipal
waste, biomedical waste, electronic waste are all mixed.
• The existing landfills are almost full and they need to be closed in a scientific
manner
• Industries are insensitive towards recycle and reuse of their industrial waste
Why this plan ?
What is this
plan ?
Functions of
Commissioning
Body
• The agency with collaboration of municipal corporation will collect wastes from
pickup points and will segregate specially marked waste products of their client
industries and normal domestic waste.
• After recycling, reusable products will be sent back to the clients according to
their amount of waste received and the remaining products will be sold to earn
profit.

10. Proposed Solid Waste Treatment Plan
Law enforced
Sign
contract
Waste collection
Reusable Products
Marked waste of client industries
Usual household waste
Benefits of this plan :
Benefit for Industry Benefit for Government Benefit for the Recycling Agency
1.Regulation of law without any problem.
2.Earn recognition for being eco-friendly
industry
3.Recycled products would reduce the
expense for new ones.
1.Reduction in pollution
2.Promote government image
3.Recycling Agency would be
responsible for recycling
process.
1.Generate employment
2.Improve city appearance
3.Profit earning by selling domestic
recycled products.

11. • Pranati Datta (21 June 2006). Urbanisation in India (PDF).
Retrieved 2007-05-07.
• Dr. C Chandramouli - Census of India – Rural urban distribution of
population
• Mercer 2012 quality of living worldwide cities ranking survey
• Department of Urban Development, Government of Delhi
(October 2006) City Development Plan(JNNURM).
• www.static.web-backgrounds.net
References