Applications Invited for M.Tech (Urban Development Management)

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About the Organization

TERI SAS commits itself to academic excellence and provides an environment that will encourage both personal and intellectual growth through teaching, creating and sharing knowledge.

TERI School of Advanced Studies was set up as a Trust by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) - a not-for-profit, independent research institute recognized globally for its contribution to scientific and policy research in the realms of energy, environment, and sustainable development in 1998. In 1999, the TERI School of Advanced Studies was granted the ‘Deemed to be University’ status by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and notified vide the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Department of Education, Government of India, notification no. F.9/19/95-U-3, dated October 5, 1999. The objective of the TERI SAS is to build capacity around various themes of sustainable development adopting an inter-disciplinary approach and incorporating the most contemporary, research-based evidence into the curriculum. Since its inception, the TERI SAS has offered not just world-class education, but also an environment that enables its students to develop fresh perspective in their subject areas. Beyond the academic programmes, the deemed University is actively reaching out to school and college students as also to mid-career professionals to sensitize them towards the environment and sustainable development in a systemic, solutions-oriented manner. The deemed University started functioning from its ‘green campus’, located in Vasant Kunj, in 2008 and today offers a dozen Masters programmes and has nearly 200 PhD students enrolled. It has started work on developing a new campus at Hyderabad, Telangana in the south of India and hopes to start offering academic programmes from this campus .

About the Program

India is projected to add 300 million new urban residents by the year 2050 to the already existing large base of 377 million urban residents. The management of such a great magnitude of population in urban areas is a challenge which comprises of a constant struggle of coping with the crumbling urban infrastructure, deficiencies in urban services, financial woes at municipal level, governance issues and an unprecedented impact on environment. It is imperative to focus on sustainable urban development by upgrading the existing cities and building new ones - a task which requires not just policy interventions and financial stimulus but also a holistically trained manpower to lead through smart solutions oriented approach to addressing these challenges in a sustainable manner.

The MTech programme in Urban Development Management (UDM) at the TERI School of Advanced Studies launched in July 2013 seeks to develop a cadre of urban practitioners trained in sustainable urban development agenda with a distinctive multi-disciplinary approach. The programme equips students with cutting-edge technical skills like data modelling, managerial capabilities, and understanding of socio-economic, environmental, and legal issues associated with urban development and associated sectors such as transport, housing, solid waste management, services and infrastructure. The students gain hands-on experience of tools and software (such as STATA, ARCMAP, ERDAS engine, eQUEST and METRONAMICA) required to support evidence-based decision-making.

Programme Specific Outcomes

The graduates of the MTech (UDM) programme would be able to,

• Explore, understand and articulate the issues of urban development in the context of developing countries using multidisciplinary frameworks.
• Collect city specific information using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods through fieldwork and stakeholder participation.
• Utilise statistical, financial and geoinformation tools for analysing urban development issues, assess available solutions and provide innovative solutions.
• Work with diverse teams within and beyond government functionaries towards creating relevant policy recommendations and solutions to pertinent urban issues.

Eligibility Criteria

• A Bachelor's degree B.E./B. Tech in any branch/discipline, B. Arch., B. Planning, OR Masters or equivalent degree in Science.

Deadline

23 Sept 2021

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