Social Justice Minister Kumari Selja today said traditional urban planning principles in the form of master plans in India had proved exclusionary and caused fragmentation of societies, unequal opportunities and large dichotomies in the character of spaces.
Speaking at the inaugural session of an International Conference on Inclusive Urban Planning being organised here by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Selja called for inclusive cities and said at present the policies had led to some areas being well provided with excessive supply of infrastructure, spaces and amenities and the others being severely deprived with inadequate housing, sub-optimal and scarce infrastructure and urban decay.