Presentation by Pritpal Randhawa, STEPS Centre peri-urban project at the STEPS Centre Symposium, November 2010.

1. Contesting Sustainability in the Peri-urban Interface: The Case of Water in Ghaziabad STEPS, Sarai and JNU Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex 23 & 24 September 2010

2. Sustainability and the Peri-urban? Highly contested zone. Complementarities leading to opportunities but also exclusions. Increasing environmental degradation and increasing marginalisation. Lack of services, lack of regulation, access deficit, Ambiguity, informality, illegality; organised irresponsibility. Increasing recognition of conflicts. Lack of approaches to realise rural-urban synergies and address poverty reduction and environment degradation, bringing together social, technological and environmental.

4. Ghaziabad – A peri-urban interface at the eastern border of Delhi. River Hindon which flows through Ghaziabad divides it into Trans-Hindon (west) and cis-Hindon (east) regions. A study was done in the Trans-Hindon region close to Delhi Border. There has been major transformations in this region in the last 10 years – conversion of agriculture into built up area, polluting factories relocated from Delhi, construction of high rise residential and commercial complexes, migration of work force , growth of informal localities etc. Case Study Area

5. Case Study Area Map of India Ghaziabad Delhi

16. Thank You! Alankar Bhagwati Amitabh Kundu Hayley Macgregor Fiona Marshall Lyla Mehta Pritpal Randhawa Dipu Sharan Linda Waldman S ocial T echnological and E nvironmental P athways to S ustainability