Urban governance and Development Management (UGDM)
ABOUT THE COURSE:
Our cities are shaped by the professionals working at the city and regional level organizations like municipal corporations, development authorities etc. In the current day paradigm, the role of professionals like city planners and city managers at the urban sector is multifarious and ever challenging in visioning, planning, designing and executing urban development projects. With the increasing role of city managers as expected in all centrally sponsored programmes like Smart City, PMAY, AMRUT, Swachh Bharat Mission etc the job profile of future city mangers is very much challenging. Thus curriculum in Urban Planning, urban management needs to be equipped with relevant and adequate knowledge and skills of urban governance and development management in addition to the classical knowledge of city and infrastructure planning. The course will impart a handful knowledge on urban governance, develop skills required for development management and self management for city managers. The course is designed with the combination of theoretical basics and examples/cases/reflective learning from current day practices to enable the students and professionals to get a comprehensive experience. The students studying at PG UG level of city planning and Management as well as the working professionals, public representatives working at the urban sectors will be benefitted from this course.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students, academicians and professionals working in the field of urban planning and management
CORE/ELECTIVE: Core
UG/PG: PG
PREREQUISITES: B. Arch/B.E (Civil)/B Plan M.A/MSc (Economics, Geography, Sociology)
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Urban Development Missions and Project Management Units, Development Authorities and Municipal Corporations
1018 students have enrolled already!!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Uttam K. Roy is an Architect and City Planner with more than sixteen years of academic, research and professional experience in the field of housing and urban planning and currently serving as Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning, IIT Roorkee. He has served as HUDCO chair faculty in Kolkata and has been instrumental in planning of New Town, Kolkata and many municipal towns prior to the present responsibility. His broad interest area is housing and city planning. He is a ‘Recognized Trainer’ (RT) of Design of Training (D.O.T) by DOPT, Government of India and delivered more than fifty short term courses including Training of Trainers (TOT) courses. He is having a keen interest in teaching pedagogy/ andragogy and uses innovative methods of teaching. He is having numbers of reputed publications and delivered many expert lectures in renowned institutions. He has more than seventeen years of works in Urban Planning, Development and management. Earlier he conducted NPTEL course in Housing Policy and Planning which got huge success of more than four thousand enrollments in two phases.
COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1: Introduction: Basic Concept & legal provisions Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to explain the basic concepts of Urban Governance and list various legal provisions. • Introduction to Urbanization • Introduction to Urban Governance • Constitutional provisions • Legislative provisions • Organizational interfaces
Week 2: An overview of People, Land and Environment Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to describe the basic resources as land, people and environment for ULBs and Nagar Panchayat. • People and community-1 • People and community-2 • Land as basic resources • Environment and Ecology • Distinctive feature of nagar panchayat and NMU
Week 3: Organisation development Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to illustrate the aspects of municipal organizational development and describe the methods to improve the performance • Organizational development • Transparency and accountability • Capacity building-1 • Capacity building-2 • Systems and process improvement
Week 4: Managing change Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to identify the critical areas of urban reforms and list the task ahead to manage the change due to such urban reforms • Urban reform and managing change-1 • Urban reform and managing change-2 • Visioning for the city • Resolving conflicts in change management • Leadership and teambuilding
Week 5: Urban and Metropolitan planning Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to explain the planning interfaces at multiple levels and illustrate a planning methodology for infrastructure improvement • Essential concepts of planning and developments • Regional and metropolitan planning • Urban planning • Urban infrastructure and services-1 • Urban infrastructure and services-2
Week 6: Municipal Finance, Accounts and Revenues Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to identify various sources and potential revenues and list out the actions required to augment the same through PPP and other urban projects • Overview of municipal finance • Municipal accounts • Augmenting revenues • Value capture financing • PPP in urban governance
Week 7: Urban Land, housing and risk management Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to identify the critical factors of development related aspects like land, environment, risk mitigation, development controls and real estate • Housing strategy for cities • Housing and urban poverty • Real estate regulation and development • Urban land management • Urban risk and disaster management
Week 8: Dealing Challenging Urban Issues Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to identify critical planning and development issues and possible way out for few pressing issues like congestion, poverty etc • Managing urban environment-1 • Managing urban environment-2 • Traffic and transportation management • Traffic and transportation management • Designing urban public spaces
Week 9: Managing Centrally sponsored Urban Missions Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to explain the objectives, coverage, approach, targets and actions required for all important current ongoing centrally sponsored UD programmes • Centrally sponsored programmes and schemes • AMRUT • Smart City Mission • SBM and HRIDAY • PMAY and NULM
Week 10: Project Planning and Execution Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to list the components of project reports and evaluate the same from practical cases • Fundamentals of project planning • Formulating projects • Project monitoring and management • Essentials of engineering design • Managing large projects
Week 11: Leadership Role of City Managers Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to list the basic leadership competencies required for city management • Managing city image • Essential competencies of city managers • Problem solving and decision making • Effective negotiations • Communication skills
Week 12: Self Development for City Managers Learning Objective (L.O): Participants will be able to make a personal action plan for continuous improvement of self and city management • Time management • Stress management • Best practices in urban management • Reflective learning and excellence • Doubt clearing and summary
SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:
• All housing policy of Government of India and states related to urban development. • Cities and Public Policy by P K Mohanty (Sage). • A Hand book of Urbanisation in India, KC Shivaramkrishnan, Amitava Kundu & B N Singh. • Assorted City by Suptendu Biswas (Sage). • URDPFI vol I and II, Ministry of Housing and urban Affairs. • India’s Urban Confusion Challenges and Strategies by M Ramachandran. • Urban Governance, Voice and Poverty in the Developing World by Ursula Grant, Nick Devas, Philip Amis.
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date and Time of Exams: April 28th 2019 (Sunday) Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
