The National Commission on Urbanisation, chaired by Charles Correa, reported in 1988 with the first comprehensive national review of India's urban future. It rejected the prevailing anti-urban bias, argued that cities were engines of growth, and proposed concentrating investment in a set of Generators of Economic Momentum and a wider network of priority urban centres. It urged stronger municipal finance, decentralisation and serviced land for the poor. Its recommendations fed directly into the constitutional amendments of 1992 and later urban policy.
It reframed Indian policy thinking to treat urbanisation as productive and prepared the ground for municipal decentralisation reform.
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