Need for City Managers' Associations

• There is a need to build in-house capacity of Urban local bodies to handle urban issues

• There is a need for a forum to support professional development of urban managers

• There is a need for sharing of successful experiences and dissemination of information

• There is a need to raise the sensitivity of state and central govt. towards urban issues

• There is a felt need to have a forum to address the above issues to improve the urban governance in the state

• To enhance peer to peer learning