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Cantonment Boards are one of the institutions of urban local governance in India and bazaars in cantonment have always played a vital role in maintaining not only the economic lifeline of the cantonments but have remained a place of great public importance. Like any other commercial space or bazaar within a city, the bazaars in the cantonments of India face similar problems such as increase in the population and pressure on urban civic services. In this study, the Sadar and Shastri bazaars of Delhi Cantonment area have been studied and the various kinds of difficulties faced by these bazaars in their day to day functioning and the provisioning of urban services to these bazaars has been analysed. This study has utilised a mixed methodology and an indicator-based framework to critically analyse the bazaars in comparison to appropriate benchmarks both of which were collected through relevant primary and secondary data sources. During the study, certain issues related to physical infrastructure including and not limited to transportation and mobility, the increasing encroachment, no say of the establishment runners of the bazaars in decision making etc. were identified. In conclusion through drawing inferences from a variety of case-studies, implementable solutions have been suggested to make these bazaars inclusive and sustainable.
Keywords: Urban regeneration, inclusive, sustainable, bazaar, indicator-based framework.
