Budget: High-level panel on urban policies

There is need to facilitate tier 2 and 3 cities to take on the mantle in future, she says

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said in her Budget speech that as the “business as usual” approach towards urban planning would not work and a paradigm shift was needed, a high-level committee to give recommendations would be set up.

Half the population of the country would be living in urban areas by the time it celebrated its 100th year of Independence in 2047, making orderly urban development critically important, she noted.