India, Jan. 28 -- Reforms of existing restrictive land-use provisions and doing away with some of the other regulations that limit economic progress, will be the tipping point leading to a surge in entrepreneurship and productivity in Indian cities, urban planning scholar Alain Bertaud said on Tuesday.

Bertaud, who among his many roles, worked as a resident urban planner of Chandigarh and principal urban planner at the World Bank, said: "The idea is to audit regulation and to get rid of the regulation, which cannot be justified.. I compare it to pruning a tree. When you have a fruit tree, you have to cut some branches. The idea is not just to cut branches, it's to improve the productivity of the tree."

Bertaud was speaking at a webinar ...