Urban Service Delivery: A Case Study of Major States in India

Abstract

This paper studies about the status of urban service delivery in India’s major states and its objective relates with urbanisation and its service delivery provided by Local government to developed states are varies in a direct and proportional way and its determined through the help of Coefficient of variation between three basic amenities such as safe drinking water, toilet facilities and availability of electricity supply. Availability of these three basic amenities in several urban areas of India as well as class size cities creates an inequality within region and less developed states still accessing with less compared with other developed states. Drinking water supply increased in a rapid manner and Government as well as private institutions provide through the treated sources like tap water, hand pump and tube wells. For improving the sanitation facilities in urban areas Government provides huge amount of grants through recent programme, Swachha Bharat Abhiyan and other programme Nirmala Bharat Abhiyan also relates with this sanitation campaign