Prime Minister’s vision of smart cities will lead to large scale development activities enhancing the quality of life in cities. The ‘Housing for all 2022’ policy and ‘AMRUT’ Yojana are going to be large scale interventions in the field of affordable housing and basic services, thus benefitting all to the poorest section of the society.
It is prime time to learn from previous interventions and their desired social implications to direct the development in the desired direction.
It is this background the one-day national workshop on Basic Services to Urban Poor – Measure of Social Impact is being organized by MANIT on Friday. This workshop is based on the research work carried out by the faculty of department of architecture and planning, Krishna Kumar Dhote and Preeti Onkar Singh, who would be developing SIA framework to measure social implication at large scale intervention prior to project implementation. This research project is sponsored by HUDCO, HSMI to quantify the impacts.
The workshop is jointly organized with Institute of Town Planning, which is a professional body of town planners/ urban planners and Bhopal Municipal Corporation.
The project coordinators will develop SIA framework which can be used as a manual for quantifying the social impacts intervention related to Affordable Housing and Basic Services. The experts in this workshop will also give recommendations and the participants would actively participate in the panel discussions as the discussion forum will have professionals, academicians, representatives of Urban local Bodies and Development Authorities.
As subject experts, Prof Veena Garella (Consultant Team leader, URBAN Affordable Housing Policy, New Delhi), Prof DV Rao (Consultant Centre for good governance, Hyderabad) and HM Mishra (Director, Institute of Urban Governance & Management) will deliver the expert lectures. In the inaugural session of the workshop, Malay Shrivastav, Principal Secretary, Urban Development and Environment Department of MP has kindly given the consent to be the chief guest.
Tejasvi Naik, Commissioner, Bhopal Municipal Corporation and Nishant Warwade, Collector, Bhopal will be present as Guest of Honour. The subject experts will enlighten and deliberate upon the issues pertaining to provision of services and housing for social development.