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Performing Governance in Urban Patna

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The body of literature reflecting on the neo-liberal urbanization processes and concomitantly the decentralization of the urban local bodies has been largely mega-city-centric. But much needs to be explored about those Municipal bodies which experienced the operationalization of 74th Amendment Act, 1992 at a juncture when urban development was offered and preached in a mission mode with programmes like JNNURM across the metropolitan cities in India. This case study of Patna Municipal Corporations and its functioning under the new reform period is an attempt to open up accounts of the unceasing everyday struggles of municipal functioning and the vested political manoeuvres among the elected councilors creating thereof what can be termed as ‘misplaced sense’ of urbanization.

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  1. 1.

    CWJC No. 9574 of 2012 (2014(2)PLJR611, 2014(1)PLJR482).

  2. 2.

    CWJC 11082/95, 8525/95, 8862/95.

  3. 3.

    (Dr. D.C. Wadhwa and Ors. v. State of Bihar and Ors. MANU/SC/0072/1986: A.I.R. 1987 SC 579).

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    MANU/BH/0416/2001.

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    The Mayor and deputy mayor elections were postponed till September since there was no provision for reservation for these posts.

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    In a personal interview.

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    (2009 (2) PLJR 394).

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    SaguftaParween Vs State of Bihar (2010(2) PLJR1072).

  9. 9.

    Jitendra Kumar Verma and others Vs the state of Bihar and others, (2010 (3) PLJR 285).

  10. 10.

    (Afjal Imam Vs State of Bihar and others (2011 (3) UJ SC 1316).

  11. 11.

    In discussion with the mayor.

  12. 12.

    In personal interview with ward member from opposition camp.

  13. 13.

    In personal interview with one of the ward members from the Mayor camp.

  14. 14.

    The Telegraph 22nd October, 2015.

  15. 15.

    AbhaLata VS state of Bihar in CWJC-2621/2014.

  16. 16.

    20th November, 2015 PrabhatKhabar.

  17. 17.

    13th December, 2013 Hindustan Times.

  18. 18.

    (2013(4) PLJR508).

  19. 19.

    In last 4 years ten municipal commissioners had been transferred.

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    5th December, 2015, Hindustan Times.

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    CWJC 12051/2015.

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    The deputy mayor Amravati is the first woman deputy mayor in the 63-year-old municipal history. Although earlier women have fought for the post of deputy mayor but there was always a man on the other side who would win. But, this time candidate from both the sides was a woman.

  23. 23.

    CWJC 17721/2015.

  24. 24.

    The file noting of his removal were written well before the application for the same was put up in the urban department. The Hindustan Times, December 4, 2015.

  25. 25.

    In personal interview.

  26. 26.

    In personal conversation with a ward councilor.

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Sheema Fatima (2018). Performing Governance in Urban Patna. In: Mukherjee, J. (eds) Sustainable Urbanization in India. Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4932-3_6

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