Seminars

The HUDCO Chair Programme

Project Leader: Professor Meenu Tewari
Research Team: Zeba Aziz
Commencement: August 2012
Completion: March 2015
Funded by: Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO)

The Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) Chair was launched at ICRIER in 2012-2013 and will focus on research, capacity building and knowledge dissemination on urban issues in India. The program has four components: (a) An ICRIER-HUDCO Seminar Series on Urbanisation and the Competitiveness of Cities that will gather together interesting current research on urban issues and share it with researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in the urban policy community; (b) research on a variety of urban themes ranging from water and sanitation, improving urban service delivery, affordable housing and urban land management, transit oriented development, urban governance and urban livelihoods and skill formation; (c) supporting capacity building workshops targeted at the municipal level around the results of the research conducted under the aegis of the program that draw lessons about programs, policies and projects that have worked well and why, and help generate cross- cutting insights about good governance and institutional reform at the urban level, and (d) workshops to disucss the findings of the HPEC (Ahluwalia) Report in select cities with field officials and policy makers.

Seminars / Workshops

• Proactive Urbanization for Economic Corridor Development
  by Mr. B. R. Balachandran, Director of Alchemy Urban Systems, Bangalore
  July 8, 2014

• Bus Rapid Transit BRT and Urban Development in Latin America: some lessons for cities in India
  Erik Vergel, Fulbright Scholar and Doctoral Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  August 08, 2013
• Urban Sustainability Strategies in the US: An Examination into the LEED-Neighborhood Development Program
  Professor Russell Smith, Associate Professor of Geography, Winston-Salem State University, USA
  August 02, 2013
• Evaluation of Intermittent versus 24×7 Water Supply in Hubli – Dharwad, India.
  Professor Kara Nelson of the University of California at Berkeley and her team
  July 26, 2013
• Housing Diversity and the Economic Structure of Cities
  March 19, 2013
• Information or Money? Using peer comparisons and financial incentives to reduce electricity demand in urban Indian households
  Anant Sudarshan, Harvard University
  Discussants: Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics), I.A. Khan (Planning Commission), Ashish Khanna (World Bank)
  February 19, 2013
• The HPEC Report and implications for building capacity within the City
  Dr. Isher J. Ahluwalia, ICRIER
  Respondent: Mr. V.P. Baligar
  January 29, 2013

• Is India’s manufacturing sector moving away from cities?
  By Aijaz Ghani, The World Bank
  Discussants: Ajay Shankar (NMCCC), John Blomquist (Senior Economist, Social Protection Unit, World Bank)
  May 17, 2012