Urban Expansion in Punjab: Opportunity or Overreach?
Urban growth should be a tool for social transformation and economic opportunity, not a mechanism for ecological destruction and social displacement.
Category Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies
From the Himalayas to the High North: India’s Arctic Programme, 2007 and the Future of Polar Engagement
Despite being a tropical nation, India took its first step in the Arctic with the signing of the Svalbard Treaty in February 1920 and then first laid the scientific expedition in the year 2007. All of India’s Arctic ambitions are codified in a formal India’s Arctic Policy document titled “India and the Arctic: Building a Partnership for Sustainable Development”, released on 17 March, 2022.
Transforming Rural India: The Role of Inclusive Education Institutions in BuildingBrighter Futures for Poor, Marginalised and Backwards Sections of Society
As civilisation has evolved, the migration of individuals from rural areas to urban centres has been a persistent phenomenon, driven by the pursuit of better job opportunities, education, and living standards.
Global Housing Technology Challenge‑India: A Transformational Push for Smart Urban Housing (2019–2025)
Launched 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 deficit through technology-led solutions.
Mapping Democracy: Evaluating India’s Local Government Directory (LGD), 2007 and Its Future
India’s three-tier system of local governance: comprising of Gram Panchayats (village level), Panchayat Samitis (block level) and Zilla Parishads (district level) in rural areas, Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats in urban areas, was constitutionally established by the 73rd and 74th Amendments in 1992 and 1993 respectively (Government of India, 1992; Government of India, 1993).
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is the leading ministry in the infrastructural development of India. The road network of India is the second-largest globally, with a reach of 6.3 million kilometers, and the traffic that passes through it is approximately 65 percent of freight and 80 percent of the passengers.
Scheme for Economic Empowerment of De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (SEED),2022
As a step towards rectifying the historical injustices done to the De-notified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Tribes, the Scheme for Economic Empowerment of De-notified/Nomadic Tribes (SEED) was rolled out by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in 2022.