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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: India must increasingly build an \u201cantifragile system\u201d that emerges stronger through uncertainties and disruptions, principal secretary to PM, PK Mishra said on Saturday while highlighting that the nature of risks and vulnerability is changing. He also stressed on the need to \u201cintrospect and analyse\u201d why all ideas and insights known and often talked about are not implemented and delivered on ground.Mishra\u2019s observations at the golden jubilee celebrations of National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) are significant in the light of multiple global disruption since the Covid-19 pandemic, including the current West Asia conflict, that have impacted nations and the chronic governance issue of gap between ideas and implementation on ground.Country\u2019s top bureaucrat said that disruptions are no longer isolated or temporary and they can cascade rapidly across sectors, institutions and economies. \u201cThis requires us to think differently about development itself where resilience must be understood as the capacity to anticipate, absorb, adapt, transform and increasingly build antifragile systems that emerge stronger through uncertainty and change,\u201d Mishra said.He said that as cities remain at the forefront of climate related stresses, future urban development must focus on proactive planning, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure and sustainable urban systems to build resilient, inclusive and climate sensitive cities.Mishra added while traditional approaches often focus on \u2018bouncing back\u2019 after disruption, the emerging paradigm requires systems that can learn, adapt, and emerge stronger through disruption, moving towards bouncing forward and increasingly becoming antifragile systems. \u201cThe objective today is not only recovery but building stronger institutions, infrastructure and governance systems capable of managing future shocks and uncertainties,\u201d he added.Highlighting how implementation of ideas remains a challenge, he said, \u201cThe issues of implementation and effective delivery of services need deeper research because we see people always talk about this can be done, this should be done but the question always is how it can be done, why it is not being done. I think these are some of the challenges which possibly should be the focus of research.\u201dUrban affairs secretary Srinivas Katikithala said India\u2019s journey towards a developed nation requires cities to be planned not only for growth, but also for resilience, sustainability and long-term adaptability.<\/div>\n