Innovation has to be mainstreamed in development paradigm: Mihir Shah

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Kerala gave the satellite a exemplary of improvement successful the precocious 20th century. Now, the satellite is poised for the Kerala innovative exemplary of improvement 2.0, economist and erstwhile subordinate of the erstwhile Planning Commission of India Mihir Shah has said.

He was speaking astatine a sheet treatment connected ‘Local economical improvement – strategy and scoping’ arsenic portion of a associated nationalist consultative radical and bottom-up consultative radical gathering connected the ‘One Local Government One Idea’ (OLOI) programme of the Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC) present connected Thursday.

Mr. Shah underlined the request to find solutions to 2nd procreation developmental problems that broke distant from the improvement paradigm of the 20th century, peculiarly successful the airy of the demolition of the environment. K-DISC’s enactment arsenic portion of OLOI could adhd up to becoming the paradigm for the 21st period with a antithetic conception of the narration betwixt system and the ecosystem of which it is simply a portion of. “Innovation has to beryllium mainstreamed successful the improvement paradigm,” helium said.

Raghunandan T.R., erstwhile associated secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, said that successful Kerala the paradox of section improvement being opposed by section authorities could beryllium observed. He besides highlighted the issues successful trying to code problems of urbanisation with a “rural fiscal architecture.”

Joe Madiath, chairman, Gram Vikas, a non-governmental organisation successful Odisha, said Kerala could person done a batch much successful to go the person successful the country of drinking h2o and sanitation.

Drinking h2o and sanitation activities should beryllium based connected sustainable models. Citing the illustration of the NGO’s enactment successful Odisha, helium said villages managed their ain drinking h2o and sanitation strategy by creating a corpus money for which each household successful a peculiar colony deposited ₹1,000 successful a slope and the involvement was utilized to guarantee that the facilities covered each family.

Preeta Lall, erstwhile enforcement director, Local Governance Initiative Network, argued that galore of the problems faced by section bodies related to adaptation to clime alteration and that could not beryllium restricted to administrative boundaries. Pilot projects should beryllium captious of the attack adopted and should veer distant from ideas that bash not work.

N.C. Narayan, professor, IIT Bombay; Ajith Radhakrishnan, elder specialist, World Bank; Dinesh Abrol, professor, Institute for Studies successful Industrial Development; Joy Elamon, erstwhile manager general, Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA); Jiju P. Alex, member, Kerala State Planning Board; Nizamudeen A, manager general, KILA; besides spoke. W.R. Reddy, erstwhile manager general, National Institute of Rural Development, spoke online.

A radical treatment connected ‘Strategy for municipality innovation clusters’ followed.

Earlier, P.V. Unnikrishnan, subordinate secretary, K-DISC, spoke connected ‘OLOI advancement truthful acold and mode forward.’

Published - October 30, 2025 07:44 p.m. IST

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