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High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) for Estimating Investment Requirements for Urban Infrastructure Services

• About the Project

• Duration

• Major Outputs

• Core Team Members Working on the Project at NIUA

About the Project:

The Competent Authority has decided to set up a High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) for estimating investment requirements for urban Infrastructure Services. The HPEC comprises of the following:

Secretarial assistance to the HPEC shall be provided by National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi.

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Duration:  

The HPEC shall submit its report to the Government within a period of eighteen months from the date of constitution (14th May 2008).

Major Outputs:

1. Establish the conceptual, analytic, contractual and institutional basis for the delivery of urban services to support improvements in productivity, quality of life on an inclusive basis, governance and enviro-socio parameters on a sustainable basis keeping in mind the financial capacity of the country and trends in other emerging markets. 

2. Outline the broad trends in urbanization and estimate the carrying capacity of existing urban nodes to determine the economic rates of return that targeted urban investment could secure in terms of incremental GDP growth, increases in employment and in the reduction of poverty. 

3. Establish physical and financial standards and norms for urban infrastructural services, (financial covering capital operations and maintenance and replacement and upgradation) keeping in mind the standards in comparable emerging market countries. 

4. Estimate the demand for urban infrastructural services for the period 2008- 2020 A.D., taking into account the current level of deficits, demographic trends, and macroeconomic factors. 

5. Provide an estimate of the investment requirements for urban infrastructural services for the period 2008-2020 A.D. including the maintenance and replacement requirements on a cycle basis. 

6. Suggest options of financing urban infrastructure services. It will fully explore the scope of financing infrastructure services through appropriate user charges. 

7. Consider and suggest institutional changes in the provision, delivery and management of urban infrastructural services. 

8. Any other issue that the HPEC may consider relevant in the interest of the overall purpose and objective of the scope of its work.

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Team Members working on the project at NIUA:   

1.  Prof. Chetan Vaidya

2.  Prof. Usha P Raghupathi

3.  Mr. Sandeep Thakur

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