India's Urban Economic Development Policy, Retrospect and Prospect: A Case Study of Hyderabad.

India has seen a similar trend, and its cities are widely regarded as a key driver of the country's economic expansion. This is because urban management and governance are matters of state sovereignty, and the federal government can only provide broad guidelines and directions in this area. The city of Hyderabad is an important economic and cultural centre in India. A lot of social and cultural changes have occurred in the city throughout time. Due to the increased period of Industrialization and urbanisation, significant and dynamic changes are taking place in it now as well. The city's layout and development tendencies were profoundly affected by these shifts. Hyderabad's challenges may be solved by investing in urban reforms that strengthen municipal administration and service delivery via the development of new physical facilities, with a special emphasis on alleviating urban poverty. The city of Hyderabad now ranks first in terms of a number of different indices, including those measuring pollution, traffic congestion, and cost of living. Despite its lack of competition from other metropolitan areas in the nation, the city has maintained its status as one of the world's 30 most economically and qualitatively competitive cities.Unfortunately nothing substantive has been done at the state level and whatever policy and programme is seen has come through different national plans. In this context the paper intends to trace the urban development policy which takes into account urbanisation policy as well as urban policy since the first FYP. Urbanisation policy focuses more on developing urban areas in regional context while urban policy takes into account internal issues like land use, housing and slums, basic amenities, transport and the urban governance mechanism.