Ravikant Joshi

Urban Management, Finance Consultant.

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Urban Challenge Fund - Will it or will it not deliver? by Dr Ravikant Joshi

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As India pursues the vision of becoming a developed nation by 2047, cities will play a central role in driving economic growth and improving quality of life. The Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) has been introduced to support this transformation by promoting innovative, sustainable, and investment-ready urban development.

CPPR's latest report examines the design of the Urban Challenge Fund, its financing framework, and the institutional requirements for its implementation. It also explores the opportunities the fund creates for urban infrastructure while assessing the governance, fiscal, and capacity-related challenges that could shape its outcomes.

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[CPPR India @CPPRIndia]

As India pursues the vision of becoming a developed nation by 2047, cities will play a central role in driving economic growth and improving quality of life. The Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) has been introduced to support this transformation by promoting innovative, sustainable, and investment-ready urban development.

CPPR's latest report examines the design of the Urban Challenge Fund, its financing framework, and the institutional requirements for its implementation. It also explores the opportunities the fund creates for urban infrastructure while assessing the governance, fiscal, and capacity-related challenges that could shape its outcomes.

Read the full report: https://t.co/RGwAdufSVn
#UrbanChallengeFund #UrbanDevelopment #UrbanGovernance #MunicipalFinance #PublicPolicy #CPPR #India

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My podcast on urban finance and governance issues please watch and share if liked thanks https://t.co/2wZY3VbQAB

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@CJP_for_India I support CJP fight till the end

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Scaling Municipal Bonds in India: Beyond Incentives for Urban Development #municipalbondsinindia https://t.co/0aYfkQ9ulC via @Slideshare

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Impact and Recommendations of the 16th Finance Commission on Urban Local Gove... #urbanfinancesinindia https://t.co/iqzsC183Ta via @Slideshare

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Paradox of Increasing Urban Infrastructure Needs Amidst Declining Investment ... https://t.co/YgVgdZtcAm via @Slideshare

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Comprehensive Analysis of Municipal Bonds in India: Issuance, Regulations, an... https://t.co/Qz2gp5ky4k via @Slideshare

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Comprehensive Study on Municipal Bonds in India: Development, Issuance, and R... https://t.co/9r786zn0QW via @Slideshare

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Urban Reforms and Financial Strategies for Strengthening Municipal Infrastruc... #urbanreforms https://t.co/Lbk8UULT8W via @Slideshare

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Urban Reforms and Financial Strategies for Strengthening Municipal Infrastruc... via @Slideshare

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

The world is being reordered by those who act and those who define. If India wishes to be counted among the latter, it must ensure that its silence does not speak louder than its convictions.

We are living through a moment when the rules of the international system are being rewritten in real time. Assassinations of leaders, the killing of civilians, open assertions of force—these are no longer aberrations but instruments. In such a world, silence is not neutrality. It is read, interpreted, and often misread as consent.

India has long claimed a distinctive space in global affairs—not as an appendage to power, but as a voice shaped by its own civilisational experience and its history of speaking for sovereignty, restraint, and balance. That voice mattered because it was consistent, even when inconvenient. Strategic autonomy cannot mean adjusting our language to the hierarchy of power.

Restraint has its place. Calibration is necessary. But when fundamental questions arise—about sovereignty, about the limits of force, about the protection of civilians—India cannot afford to be silent.

A moral compass is not an ornament of foreign policy. It is its direction. Without it, realism drifts into accommodation, and autonomy into ambiguity.

This war has damaged India’s interests in almost every practical sense. It has raised costs, narrowed diplomatic room, stressed shipping, complicated Chabahar, and injected fresh instability into a region vital to India’s economy and external strategy. Even if New Delhi can cushion the blow, it cannot plausibly claim that the blow itself serves India.

The deeper question is whether India is willing to say so with sufficient clarity.

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My article on -Union Budget 2026-27 – Is the Urban Sector Losing Priority? - Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)

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XVI Finance Commission: A Fiscal Push for Urban Governance https://t.co/00kDfFpEGG

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#Bureau of immigration India even in this lean season one has to stand in line for half an hour because all counters not working

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#Cartoon #ElectionCommission #ModelCodeOfConduct https://t.co/4KlzRjWBIc

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@airindia Thanks for the prompt reply. I was informed before reaching airport half an hour delay, if flight was supposed to delay so much that should have been informed. We would not have come to the airport. People having connecting flights including me are going through agony.

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#AirIndia flight AI 218 Kathmandu Delhi delayed by five and half hours and still no confirmation about its exact time. After talking over it by TATA still there is no improvement in its performance.