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Urban rivers have dynamic and unique nature of its own. They are considered as a part of heritage to that particular city. That nature needs to be protected to protect the livability of urban life.
However today these necessities are fantasized with such models of urban rivers which are not based on governance principles and have not considered the ecological perspective in planning of urban river restoration or rejuvenation. Today urban rivers are constrained by limited landscape, mostly encroached, polluted and frequent with the floods. The unilateral aspect of river management considered the urban rivers through cleaning, flood mitigation and pollution aspect. The current efforts by the government through various national interdisciplinary projects and plans lacks people’s perception and river policy considering river ecology.
Through the case study researcher addresses the requirement to develop the network of multi stakeholder. The governance mechanism through stakeholder participation provides multidimensional aspects for sustainable management of urban rivers. The collaborative structure portrays different views to make a city-wide strategy and preserve the heritage and livingness of the city and sustainably manages the urban river corridors. It requires better connectivity, negotiation process and social group representation. The researcher with the hypothesis that the study would help to reveal that Indian urban river governance requires people’s perception and legal approach to governance.
Researcher has also explored other countries initiative of urban river restoration shows that the shifting the perception of people and the governance mechanism will lead a sustainable urban development.
