Urban Environmental Issues and Governance Related Challenges in Fringe Area of Mega-cities: A Case of Khora Colony, Ghaziabad, India

Urban environment and its spatial development in India is one of the most difficult challenges, particularly study outlying areas of the city, difficult to maintain a safe urban environment and managing urban morphology. Present research, researchers trying to unfold the hidden story behind the development of cities, scenario of fringe areas of megacities where has maximum population and minimum governance( govern by responsible institutions); as a result unplanned and uncontrolled areas are mushrooming peripheries of the cities. Through this work researchers trying to find out the urban environmental issues of NCR and Khora (Urban Fringe Area), a marginalized, insecure, highly dense census town, exists between three developed cities of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Noida at the edge of these developed cities. The research work focused to investigate human-centric issues in urban sphare like shortage of water supply, sewage disposal, municipal waste, unhealthy open spaces, and air - water pollution. The article has asked questions and is trying to search out answers based on the basic needs of urban dwellers. Researchers have adopted ethnographical studies and qualitative methodologies to know the localities, planning and geopsychology of Khora colony.