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About the Portal
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India Urban Portal is a knowledge collaborative platform that enhances the availability of quality urban information. The goal is to provide an entryway (portal) to urban information, and creates a network, community and resource that provide qualified, trusted, and verifiable information and contacts. Information from the site is accessible from three repositories:
The purpose of the portal is to improve access to information thus facilitating the knowledge -sharing and collaborating process. The portal will serve as an urban information and interactive center serving the informational needs of various communities of users. The site is user-friendly having standardized metadata, controlled vocabularies, and qualified sources to describe information. It contains:
All the partners contributing to the flow of urban information are invited to join us in the integrated cooperation effort with suggestions, Informations to be put up in the site, news, events, Informations on projects, best practices, etc. Please mail us at Prof. V.K. Dhar and Ms. Nilanjana Dasgupta Sur |
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Peer Experience and Reflective Learning Programme (PEARL) Under JnNURM |
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Background Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), is a flagship project launched by Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India for planned development of the cities and towns with focus on efficiency in urban infrastructure and service delivery mechanisms in 'mission cities'. To achieve full objectives of JNNURM, knowledge sharing of urban reforms amongst JNNURM cities has emerged as a potential area for capacity building. It is felt that cities identified under JNNURM, can network amongst themselves for cross learning and sharing of experiences, hence effectively managing their cities. "Peer Experience and Reflective Learning" (PEARL) is an initiative under JNNURM to support cities to actively pursue activities in implementation of projects and reforms. It is envisaged to form groups/networks amongst JNNURM cities having similar socio-economic profile, complexities of urban problems and issues, size and urban growth patterns, along with natural affinity to peer pair. Suggested 'peer-pairing' for cities in JNNURM is on the basis of: socio-economic profile and key economic drivers, Size of the city, urban growth pattern and urban character/complexities. Therefore, cities with similar urban issues and character are brought together. The cities have been divided into five groups, namely: (a) Mega Cities; (b) Industrial Cities; (c) Mixed economy; (d) Cultural Cities; and (e) Cities of Environmental Importance. The programme was launched on January 31, 2007 in Hyderabad. A network convener and potential knowledge managers (KMs) were identified.
The National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) has been nominated by the MoUD to function as National Network Coordinator, to coordinate the overall PEARL activities among the JNNURM cities. Activities: A revised proposal on PEARL was prepared keeping in view the desired outcome as discussed in the review meeting on June 8 2008. The activities that would be carried out under the programme are:
Major Outputs: To create manageable networks between JNNURM cities for cross learning and sharing knowledge on urban reforms and city governance so that objectives of the mission can be successfully achieved to make cities more livable, economically vibrant and environmentally sustainable. The activity will be carried out over one year. |
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Team Members |
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 Prof.
Chetan Vaidya
Director, NIUA Master of City Planning IIT Kharagpur, B. Arch.
Prof. Chetan Vaidya was appointed as the Director of National Institute of Urban Affairs in February 2008. He is urban planner from IIT Kharagpur with over 30 years of experience. He is working very closely the Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD) on various urban issues and assisting various city and state governments in implementation reforms under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). He advised various cities, state governments and financial institutions in the areas of municipal resource mobilization, development of commercially viable urban infrastructure projects, market-based financing of urban infrastructure and improving access of poor to urban services. Prof. Vaidya was Professor of Architecture and Planning at M.S. University of Baroda during 1991-94 and also worked as Assistant General Manager with the National Housing Bank during 1989-91. |
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Vijay K Dharvdhar@niua.org Professor & Project Coordinator M.A.(Geography) P.G. Diploma (Urban and Regional Planning)
Mr. Vijay K. Dhar is a HUDCO Chair Professor at the Institute and has about 30 years professional experience in the field of Urban Planning, Housing and Environment sector. He has initiated, guided and coordinated research on many topics including urban planning, public-private partnership in Land and Housing, urban management, urban poverty and evaluation of Government policies and programmes in the field of urban planning and management. He has conducted training programmes on there topics for the state government and municipal officials. He has number of published papers and research reports on the subjects mentioned above. He is a member of various committees constituted in the filed of urban housing, land development and urban management. |
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Systems Analyst M.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics, P.G. Diploma in Computer Science
Mr. RAM K. DAHIYA has been working in this Institute in the capacity of a Systems Administrator and Statistician. He has about 25 years of experience in Information Technology and has Specialisation in Computer based Information Management and Statistical Modeling. He has been involved in Estimation and Projection and Establishment of Clearing House of Information. He is also involved in developing an Urban Information System that organises the data into a system which can be periodically updated, retrieved and disseminated. He has fair understanding of the softwares, relevant for estimating and projecting National, Regional and City level data on population; and activities and occupations using different assumptions involving different growth rates, variations in the components of growth such as migration, births over deaths etc. He has conducted various training programs on Information Technology for the Institute. He has experiences of working with the organization like NIC and ICMR and has working experience of various Operating Systems and languages. |
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Nilanjana Dasgupta Sur,
Research Fellow and Asstt. Project Coordinator Masters in Urban Planning & Masters in Geography (Regional Planning)
Ms. Nilanjana Dasgupta Sur is a Research Fellow at the institute. She has a Post- Graduate degree in Planning with specialization in Urban Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi and a Masters degree (Gold Medal Holder) in Geography from the Benaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. She has over 5+ years of experience in the field of urban/regional development, urban and environmental management. Earlier, she has worked with Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) and IIPA, New Delhi as Research Officer. She had been working in different projects at NIUA like the GOI-UNDP Project on “National Strategy for Urban Poor”; GOI-UNDP Project on “Urban Poverty Reduction Strategy”; Preparation of Primers for Optional Reform under the flagship programme of JNNURM and so on. She is presently coordinating the flagship programme “Peer Experience and Reflective Learning (PEARL)” Programme under JNNURM. |
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Ms. Indu Senan Asstt. Programmer and Website Administrator Graduate in Economics and PG in Computer Applications, Website Designing & Development
Ms. Indu Senan is working as a Asstt. Programmer at the National Institute of Urban Affairs since March 1983. She has been involved in the various projects for data analysing/data processing and has about 27 years of experience in this field. She took up website related work in 1999 for the Institute's website and later had also worked for the website under FIRE-D project. Her experience involves administration of the office LAN, Mail server, File server and Intranet related jobs etc. She is the administrator of the Institute's website. Presently she is also looking after the Peer Experience and Reflective Learning (PEARL) website India Urban Portal as an administrator. |
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Research Associate M.A. Geography and M.Tech in planning
Ms. Poornima Singh is working as a Research Associate at the National Institute of Urban Affairs since May 2009. She is Geographer Planner with a postgraduate specialization in Housing from the CEPT Unversity, Ahmedabad. She has done her masters in Geography from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University and worked with Dr. Anu Kapoor as research assistant in writing book," Disasters in India". she has done her internship from CIDCO, Navi mumbai and made development plan of Sanpada, Navi mumbai through GIS technique single handedly. She was very active student during her college days and won various awards and prize for her performance and parcipation. She is presently working on the "Peer Experience and Reflective Learning (PEARL)" programme under JNNURM at NIUA. |
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Research Associate Masters in Development Studies, B.A (H) Journalism
Ms. Rommani Sen is a Research Associate at the institute. She has a post-graduate degree in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, (TISS), Mumbai and a Bachelors degree in Journalism from Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi (University Topper). She had interned with NIUA in May-June 2008, wherein she worked on the JNNURM project. She has also worked with leading media organizations such as Reuters and The Times of India, New Delhi, during the course of her journalism training. She is presently working on the "Peer Experience and Reflective Learning (PEARL)" programme under JNNURM. |
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WP Operator and IT Assistant Graduate
Mr. Singh is working as a WP Operator at the Institute for the last 24 years. He had been involved in various projects in the IT department of the Institute. His valuable work and experience is an added credential for this project. |
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A large number of organizations are providing knowledge to the programme. The list of knowledge partners is given below:
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Mr.
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Mahender Singh