Juxt-a-Position is a thought-leadership blog by Apurva Pathak, Registered Architect (NZ & India), exploring how design, policy, and digital innovation—especially BIM = IT 2.0—can transform India’s built environment. It bridges global practices and Indian realities, advocating accountability, education reform, and smarter governance across architecture, urban development, and construction management for a truly Viksit Bharat 2047.
Jan 23, 2026
How Vasistha Enables Scalable Municipal Governance
Jan 21, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Fragmented Municipal Governance
Cost — The Cost of Fragmented Municipal Governance
When civic systems do not speak to each other, inefficiency becomes systemic.
Approvals slow, service delivery suffers, and accountability weakens.
The real cost is not administrative overhead — it is lost public confidence and governance fatigue.
Fragmentation turns cities into bottlenecks instead of enablers.
Jan 19, 2026
Why Vasistha Fails Without Integrated Civic Systems
Problem — Why Municipal Governance Breaks Without Integrated Civic Systems
Cities operate through dozens of civic systems — approvals, utilities, roads, waste, safety, and services — yet these systems rarely operate together.
Municipal decision-making relies on fragmented datasets, manual coordination, and institutional memory.
Without integrated civic intelligence, governance becomes reactive, slow, and opaque.
This fragmentation erodes trust between citizens and institutions.