Journal of Management and Public Policy

Urbanization can be seen as a deliberate decision-making that involves political leaders and elites playing very decisive role. As the policies cannot be decided in a vacuum; the central and state governments have taken proactive efforts to facilitate urbanization in India. In post-independence era, there are specific and detailed statements of policy for industrial development, agricultural development, population growth but rarely one finds any national urbanization policy statement. It has been observed that urban growth and management have been rarely at the centre of development planning in India (Sivaramakrishnan, 2011). The paper tries to see how Public Policy's lopsided approach has underlined the rural bias in the urban policy.