The ongoing national and state level programmes for urban transformation recognize and integrate one or the other aspect of city wide sanitation in the vision and implementation strategies. There is a need for the convergence between different policies and regulations present in the sanitation discourse by considering:

Furthermore, a CSP can be utilized as a planning tool which needs to be integrated with other urban plans and schemes at different scales of urban governance. Beyond the CSP, there are various exiting tools for urban planning as follows:

In the end, a CSP should not only be a comprehensive planning document, but also a planning tool with strategies that achieve an informed decision that can be easily explained to relevant stakeholders, council and the City sanitation task force.