Suggestions to the Sixteenth Finance Commission for Urban Local Bodies
November 2024
This note urges the Sixteenth Finance Commission (XVI-FC) to recognise the importance of a digital data portal for regular monitoring of urban services and to help strengthen monitoring systems in urban local governments (ULBs) in India. It makes a recommendation for continuing the grants linked to annual notification of the service level benchmarks (SLBs) for urban basic services including water supply, sanitation and solid waste management.
The article was also published in EPW journal - https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/37/commentary/sixteenth-finance-commission-and-urban-local.html
