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The TREADS Initiative and National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) invite you to an event on:
Opportunities and Challenges of Water-Centric Master Planning in India
Speaker: R. Srinivas, Urban Planning Expert with High Level Committee on Urban Planning, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Friday, 3rd May 2024, 3:30 PM IST. This event will be held in the CPR Conference room and online on Zoom.
About the event:
The traditional land-use focus of the Master Plan is undergoing a stress testing and is increasingly being challenged. Cities and towns are witnessing environmental challenges such as water scarcity, flooding and other climate related risks. Despite this growing awareness and enhanced efforts by state institutions and civil society, urban environmental management remains a challenge.
The talk will critically engage with the conception of the master plan as a statutory instrument and its role in urban environmental management. In particular, the talk aims to
engage with two broad aspects of master planning:
- The effectiveness of various master planning instruments like TDR, DCR in making water centric planning
- Despite a growing call on the need to reform the T&CP laws what hinders states’ in amending their existing Town and Country Planning laws to respond to the environmental challenges?
About the speaker:
R. Srinivas has a rich experience of over three decades of engaging in the field of urban planning in India. He is a former planner who has worked extensively with the TCPO. Presently, he is engaged as Urban Planning expert with High Level Committee on Urban Planning, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
He represented the MoHUA as Director in the Board of Directors of Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited (2015-2022). He has also been instrumental in guiding the preparation of Urban and Regional Development and Plan Formulation Guidelines (URDPFI), 2014 and Model Building
Byelaws, 2016. He has been part of multiple committees, taught as a visiting faculty to School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and is widely published.
