Ford Fellowship and Thirteenth Finance Commission

The PPRG did a project for the Thirteenth Finance Commission, Government of India, which was completed in January 2009, on the potential of land as a municipal financing tool, taking the cases of Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Kolkata. The Thirteenth Finance Commission accepted the recommendations of the PAC study and incorporated them in its final report which was tabled in the budget session of the Indian Parliament in February 2010.

As part of the Ford Fellowship, the PPRG worked on the relationship between finances and service delivery taking the case of Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Kolkata. The final report (co-authored by Kala S Sridhar and Venugopala Reddy) was brought out as a book (State of India’s urban services: Spending and financing) by Oxford University Press India in July 2010.