ABSTRACT
This chapter points out urban policy slippages which make the city habitat a hot spot of disaster. The author highlights that the Yokohama Strategy for Safer World in 1994, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, constituted an expert committee to prepare model amendments required in Town and Country Planning Legislations of various states and also to suggest regulations for land use zoning and provisions in development control and bye-laws, pertaining to the safety in natural hazard-prone areas throughout the country. This chapter is the excerpt from the recommendations of the experts committee, with the objective to disseminate the information to a very large number of professional town planners working in various states in different capacities, so that the town planners would take a step to get the amendments in Town and Country Planning Legislations and DCR/bye-laws, as well as to take care of vulnerable areas while preparing settlement plans for safer India. The author clarifies government’s patience and neglect towards the non-enforceability of techo-legal regime in city governance.
