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Policy Brief February 25, 2020

Unlock Mumbai’s land revenue to upgrade the city

By Harshita Agrawal & Isalyne Gennaro

India’s richest municipal body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), faces a funds crunch. It needs to capitalise on its assets and aim for greater revenues from the land market.

Op-ed February 5, 2020

Opinion| The costs of congestion: A case study of Mumbai

By Harsh Vardhan Pachisia & Kadambari Shah

From economic efficiency to environmental damage, citizens pay a heavy price.

Op-ed January 24, 2020

Opinion | Ayushman Bharat can be a success if Modi govt incentivises digital data for private players

By Alex Fager & Prakhar Misra

Modi govt’s proposed Personal Data Protection Bill has to be in conjunction with its blueprint governing India’s health data. But can it make private players participate?

Paper October 18, 2019

Assessing Cities’ Labour Market Efficiencies Using Mumbai Commuting Data

By Dr. Vasant Dhar, Harsh Vardhan Pachisia, Vaidehi Tandel, Kadambari Shah & Girish Gupta

The average commute on Mumbai’s major routes is longer than an hour, more than double the averages of Singapore, Hong Kong and New York.
An aerial view of Mumbai, India.

Report July 18, 2019

Reforming Urban India

By Pritika Hingorani, Vaidehi Tandel, Harsh Vardhan Pachisia, Kadambari Shah, Harshita Agrawal, Sharmadha Srinivasan & Mehul Das

In this Reform Agenda, we present eight reforms to address some of the most pressing challenges facing India’s cities.

Paper February 6, 2019

Too Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India

By Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi, Alexander Tabarrok & Shamika Ravi

India is urbanising and putting increasing pressure on urban land and there is growing impetus to convert land from agriculture to non-agriculture use.

Paper February 1, 2019

Financing urban infrastructure for an evolving India

By Pritika Hingorani, Sharmadha Srinivasan & Harshita Agrawal

This chapter aims to tackle financing concerns in Indian urban infrastructure, which is part of the larger national infrastructure investment requirement of US$526 billion, covering areas like national highways, energy, and railways.

Paper November 19, 2018

What’s In A Definition?: A Study on Implications and Suitability of Urban Definitions in India through its Employment Guarantee Programme

By Vaidehi Tandel, Komal Hiranandani & Mudit Kapoor

This paper discusses the political economy of definitions of urban and rural in India. When using alternative definitions of urban, we find that India is much more urban than is officially recognised and present a case for alternate definitions.

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