DEPARTMENT OF REGIONAL PLANNING Special Lectures organized by Department of Regional Planning, 2011-2018 S. Name of the Expert and Organisation Title Date (s) No. 2018 1. Dr. Pushpa Pathak Displacement and its 29 August 2018 Retired Associate Professor implications for (Urban and Regional Planning), National Institute of Urban Affairs, Rehabilitation 2. Mr. Amit Bhargava Application of Geographic 8 August 2018 Technical Director in Utility Mapping Group, National Informatics Centre, Information System in National Informatics Centre: Case studies 3. Mr. Vipin Sharma Experiments with Different 25 April 2018 Founder, Vin Industries, 4. Prof. Dr. Atiya Habeeb Kidwai Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 5. Dr. Girish Kumar Retired Indian Institute of Public Administration, 6. Dr. Arumugam Kalimuthu Program Director, Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) and Technical Assistance Program, WASH Institute, 7. Dr. Kiran Wadhva Retired Executive Director (Research), Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO), New 8. Mr. Selvam Velangani Manickam Regional Director, Institute of Social Science, Regional Centre, Puducherry 9. Mr. Rakesh Kapoor Managing Trustee, Alternative Futures and Associate Editor, Futures 2017 1. Prof. Dr. Ritu Priya, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Eco Friendly Materials Technical Report Writing 11 April 2018 Approaches to Understand Rural Development Water and Sanitation Status in India Issues, Challenges and Way Forward Economics of Land Markets Decentralized Governance: Case Study of Pudicherry 21 March 2018 14 March 2018 7 March 2018 28 February 2018 Skills of Report Writing 11 January 2018 Issue of Public Health and Planning 22 November 2017
2. Dr. P. Jayapal Senior Executive Director (P) Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO), 3. Dr. V. N. Alok Indian Institute of Public Administration, 4. Mr. Sachin Pant Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Innovest Advisory Service Pvt Ltd 5. Dr. Awadhendra Sharan Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies(CSDS), New 6. Ms. Abha Singhal Joshi Lawyer and Consultant with Council for Social Development, Hyderabad and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) 7. Ms. Banashree Banerjee Independent consultant and Professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Rotterdam 8. Dr. Bharat Dahiya Senior Advisor, Urbanist Environment, Development and Sustainability Programme, Graduate School, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand 9. Dr. Mahendra Sethi Faculty/ Editor Urban India National Institute of Urban Affairs, 10. Dr. Kiran Wadhwa Retd. Executive Director (Research), Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO), New 11. Dr. S.K. Kulshrestha Founder-editor, Spatio-economic Development Record 12. Dr. Mahipal Retd. Director, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India Global trends In Regional Planning 8 November 2017 Fiscal Federalism 25 October 2017 Role of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Large Scale Infrastructure Projects Planning, Law and the Urban Environment Planned Development : Have we done Justice to the constitution 13 October 2017 27 September 2017 23 August 2017 Informal Land Markets 19 April 2017 Learning by Doing: Climate Change and Planning for Resilience 12 April 2017 Technical Report Writing 5 April 2017 Demand and Supply in Land Market Planning for Village Development Implementation of Rural Development Schemes 22 March 2017 15 March 2017 8 March 2017
13. Prof. Dr. Atiya Habeeb Kidwai Retired Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 14. Mr. Rakesh Kapoor Managing Trustee, Alternative Futures and Associate Editor, Futures 2016 1. Prof. Dr. Saraswati Raju, Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University,. 2. Dr. Mona Chabra Architect and Development Planner 3. Ms. Mukta Ojha Founder Member, Green Warriors Foundation 4. Rakesh Ranjan, Advisor, NITI Aayog 5. Mr. Satyendra Singh, Visiting Faculty, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany 6. Dr. Surabhi T. Mehrotra Independent Researcher 7. Mr. Abhay Kumar Executive Director Lokashraya Foundation 8. Mr. Arpan De Sarkar Economist and Policy Analyst 9. Mr. Mahendra Sethi Editor-Urban India National Institute of Urban Affairs (under Govt. of India) 10. Mr. Sahil Sasidharan Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 11. Prof. Dr. Atiya Habeeb Kidwai, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University 12. Mr. Rakesh Kapoor Associate Editor, Futures Research Methodology 12 January 2017 Technical Report Writing 12 January 2017 Space and Gender 9 November 2016 Research Methodology 4 November 2016 Disaster and Development 19 October 2016 Urbanisation in India: Context, Challenges and Strategy Smart Cities and E- Governance 5 October 2016 21 September 2016 Gender and Public Spaces 27 April 2016 Understanding Gender and 6 April 2016 Poverty through Human Development Approach Smarter Indian Settlements 9 March 2016 and Inclusive Planning: Relevance of Participatory Approaches Climate Change and Urban 24 February 2016 Settlements: A spatial perspective of carbon footprint Contestations around Land: 9 February 2016 Governance, Planning and Policy-making in Research Methodology 14 January 2016 Technical Report Writing 14 January 2016
2015 1. Dr. Ghazala Jamil Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), 2. Dr. Alexander Follmann, University of Cologne, Köln 3. Mr. Pranav Singh Urban Planner, Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE), 4. Mr. Barjor. E. Mehta, Lead Urban Specialist, South Asia Urban Unit, World Bank 5. Dr. Philippe Cadene Professor of Development Studies, Head of Geography, UFR GHES - Research Center CESSMA Department, Sorbonne Paris Cité - University Paris Diderot 6. Dr. Jean-Marc Roda Senior research fellow, Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) 7. Sunanda Ponduwal Partner in Change, 8. Mr. Alok Shiromany Senior Partner, M/s Shiromany Tyagi & Co., Chartered Accountants, 9. Dr. Cat Button, Lecturer and Degree Programme Director, MA Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, England 10. Dr. Suzanne Speak, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, England Reframing issues of land acquisition and its social impact Governing River Scopes: Analysis Urban Environmental change along the Yamuna in Using Mobile Technology in Planning and Monitoring What is required for City Planning, Management and Governance? Globalisation of Large Metropolised Region: Issue of a new governance 3 November 2015 15 September 2015 8 September 2015 11 August 2015 4 August 2015 How metropolised regions 4 August 2015 globalise their thirst for resources and energy: when regional policies and corporate policies collide? Youth Forum on 28 July 2015 Consensus on Sustainable Development Goals Project Financing 17 April 2015 Domesticating Infrastructure Governance through Rainwater Harvesting in Mumbai 19 March 2015 Research Methodology 17 March 2015
11. Dr. Cat Button, Lecturer and Degree Programme Director, MA Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, England 12. Mr. Indu Prakash Singh, Technical Advisor, Indo-Global Social Service Society, 13. Prof. Ray Bromley, Professor of Planning and Geography and Vice Provost for International Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York 14. Mr. Satyendra Singh, Visiting Faculty, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany 2014 1. Dr. Ajinder Walia, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management, 2. Mr. Sachin Pant, CEO, Innovest Advisory Services Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon 3. Dr. Diya Mehra, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, South Asian University, 4. Mr. Vishnu Chandra, Senior Technical Director and Head- GIS Division, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India 5. Dr. Pushpa Pathak, Senior Urban Development Specialist, 6. Dr. Surendra Singh, Retd. Professor of Geography North-Eastern Hill University Shillong- 793022 7. Dr. B.R. Patil, Author of Manual on Block Level Planning with Dr. Pradipto Roy The illusion of plentiful water supply in Mumbai s middle class apartments 17 March 2015 Homelessness 24 February 2015 Patrick Geddes' Classic Plan of Indore, 1918 Geospatial Technologies for Water Tax Restructuring: Case study of Germany Environment and Development 13 January 2015 12 January 2015 11, 17 and 24 November 2014 Project Planning 24 September 2014 and 21 November 2014 Institutional Analysis and Governance 11 and 18 November 2014 Spatial Data Infrastructure 1, 11 and 18 November 2014 Resettlement and Rehabilitation Environment and Development: Understanding the Concepts and Approaches through Case Studies Tools of Micro-Planning with focus on People s Participation 18 and 25 September 2014 and 9 October 2014 13 November 2014 16 October 2014 8. Mr. Anne Feenstra Gharli A Unique 31 March 2014
Architect, Arch I, 9. Dr. Rinki Sarkar, Independent Researcher & Economics (Himalayan Studies) 10. Mr. Satyendra Singh, Visiting Faculty, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany 11. Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, Former Officer on Special Duty to the Hon ble Minister for Rural Development, Government of India 12. Prof. Richard Tomlinson Chair in Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia 13. Prof. Saraswati Raju Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 14. Dr. Jyotsana Bapat Ph.D. I.I.T Bombay and Environmental Anthropologist 15. Mr. R.K. Kapoor Managing Trustee, Alternative Futures and Consulting Editor, Futures 16. Prof. Atiya Habeeb Kidwai Retd. Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2013 1. Dr. Amit Kumar Bardhan Ph.D. (Operational Research), Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of 2. Prof. Piyush Tiwari Faculty, RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors), Melbourne 3. Dr. A. Venkat Raman Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Heritage Village Imperiled Development Trajectories: Impressions from an Ecologically Fragile belt of the Western Himalayas New Developments in Geo Spatial Technologies Conceptualising Land within Constitution of India Scaling up Community- Led Slum Upgradation: A Review of Shack/Slum Dwellers International Methodology Role of Gender in Spatial Planning 25 March 2014 4 March 2014 28 February 2014 25 February 2014 18 February 2014 Sustainable Heritage 20 January 2014 Writing Research Papers and Reports: Style and Substance 16 January 2014 Thesis Writing Skills 15 January 2014 Using Project scheduling tools for better decision making in Planning Infrastructure Regulations and Governance PPP design and implementation of Health Sector 20 November 2013 18 November 2013 1 November 2013
University of 4. Mr. Harsh Thukral National Productivity Council 5. Dr. Atiqur Rahman Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, 6. Mr. M.L. Chotani Former Add. Chief Planner, Town and country Planning Organisation, New 7. Dr. Isa Baud, Director and Network Manager, Professor of International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam Dr. Karin Pfeffer, Assistant Professor, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), University of Amsterdam 2011 1. Adam Auerbach Fulbright Scholar from United State of America Green Public Private Partnerships addressing SMEs Integrated Geospatial Approach for Planning and Management of Urban and Rural Areas 25 October 2013 27 September 2013 Diu Regional Plan 1 July 2013 Mapping Inequality and Poverty in India Political Economy of Slums: Does size, ethnicity and political hierarchy matter in access to infrastructure 2. Dr. Kristina Ford Planning and Environmental disaster: what can we learn from New Orleans 12 March 2013 27 September 2011 28 January 2011