'Just the amount of work which is there just to become more and more successful in banking. For this to happen you need to have leaders who understand technology.'
Finding is part of a survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for citizenship and democracy
Kolkata has been ranked as India's best city to live in the Annual Survey of India's City-Systems 2014.
Around 300 million people live in towns and cities. In the next 20-25 years, another 300 million Indians will shift to towns.
Manchester City's target this season will be to match Manchester United's record of three successive Premier League titles
India's cities are in poor shape and it is axiomatic that unless you have proper systems of governance in place working through the right kind of institutions, there is no hope for their uplift.
Though the city's systems are willing to go to work as usual, participating political parties will try their best to ensure a '100 per cent successful' closure on Thursday. Vrushali Lad reports
Reforms do happen and one example is Odisha which has taken steps to create a dedicated municipal cadre.
Other Graded Response Action Plan measures like ban on diesel generators, hot mix plants, stone crushers and brick kilns, however, continue to remain in place.
Poor land-use planning, indiscriminate approvals of building plans and the absence of disaster-risk assessment in urban design have resulted in what experts term concentrated concretization, predisposing cities to disaster risks
'As Mumbai showed, and the Nairobi Westgate Mall attack reinforced, "guerrilla-style terrorism" has increasingly become the method-of-choice for terrorist groups,' says terrorism expert David Kilcullen.
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