The magnitude and complexity of urban problems developing countries general and India in particular have not received the attention they deserve from policy makers especialy in the context of the vital role of Essential Environmental Facilities in promoting Socio-economic and political development of the country. The basic need for Essential Environment Facilities in adequate quantity and quality is the driving force behind much of the economic activity which is vital for sustained urban development. Creation and maintenance of Essential Environmental Facilities have traditionally been considered to ensure health and safety to the urban dwellers. In recent years, the delivery system of such facilities has seen greater set back. Increasing population both natural and social has been a major cause for concern. Obsolete taxing system, poor returns from the investments already made and large scale investment on unproductive social welfare and public protection schemes coupled with improper devolution of financialpowers between governments at various levels have aggravated the problems. Lack of drive towards identification of new source of finance and ineffective urban management system have added to the severity of the problems. Past efforts directed towards ameliorating the urban sickness directed towards ameliorating the urban sickness has not yielded the desired results as they were limited in scope and piecemeal in nature with adhoc financial support. The acute shortage in all segments of the Essential Environment Facilities sector is giving rise to social tension, impeding economic development to the extent of increasing urban poverty and decay. Reversing the trend with a positive direction towards enhancing the quantity and quality of the facilities stock becomes imperative. This calls for long and short term programmes deviced to ensure adequate reach to the different cross section of the population. Operational efficiency and effectiveness for optimum returns should be the prime concern of the programmes. To state the obvious, it is not an easy task to achieve all of them within a short period given the socio-economic and political fabric of the cities. In this paper a small attempt has been made to bring out the major problems arising out of the process of urbanisation and the impact on the economic activity, the Essential Environment Facilities which include the ’Basic Services’, 'Complimentary Services' and 'Special Urban Services' and the kind of Urban development programmes relating to Indian conditions. This methodology is intended to serve as an approach for the much needed research work using the principles of system dynamics particularly for developing countries.

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