Tag: Urban

Policy UpdateRashmi KumariIntroduction India’s rapid urbanization has led to enormous pressure on its transport systems, and the urban population of India is expected to reach...

Antara GuptaIn an insightful conversation with Adv. Audrey D’Mello during a recent session of the Law andPublic Policy Fellowship (LPPYF Cohort 5.0), there was...

TIKENDAR SINGH PANWARUrban growth should be a tool for social transformation and economic opportunity, not a mechanism for ecological destruction and social displacement.Punjab, once...

Policy UpdateSrishti SinhaBackgroundHousing is one of the basic amenities of human life; however, urban areas face a significant shortage of housing facilities due to...

Policy UpdateAravindsamy RBackgroundLaunched in January 2019, under PMAY‑Urban, the Global Housing Technology Challenge‑India (GHTC‑India) represents a policy innovation aimed at addressing India’s urban housing...

Policy UpdateSreedeep BoseIntroductionTo support the financial needs of urban households, the National Housing Bank introduced a new refinance scheme to extend credit to this...

Policy UpdateSreedeep BoseTo support the financial needs of urban households, the National Housing Bank introduced a new refinance scheme to extend credit to this...

Policy UpdateRounak PandaBackgroundIndia’s development trajectory—urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural intensification—has unintentionally sired a parallel crisis of waste creation. Municipal authorities struggle with over 65 million...

Rwitwik SinhaWhen discussing climate change, we often picture smoky skylines of megacities or vast  industrial complexes. But beneath the radar, small towns in South...

Shivani Goud This blog challenges the superficiality of today’s “green” urbanism, exposing how sustainability frameworks often  ignore the deep inequalities and extractive systems embedded...