NAME

EDUCATION

DOMAIN

Usha P Raghupathi

Professor

P.G. Diploma in Planning, Masters in Geography

Urban Development and Management, Urban Infrastructure and Services, Urban Environment, Urban Reforms, Capacity Building of Urban Local Bodies

Debolina Kundu

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Urban Governance

Doing business in Indian cities and urban development including urban housing and land tenure, slum policies, urban poverty, municipal finance and urban governance, regional and socio-economic disparity across social groups, MDGs

Paramita Datta Dey

Senior Research Officer

Masters in Geography, Post-Graduate in Planning.

Urban Development Policy Analysis, Urban and Environmental Management, Natural Resource Management and Environmental Policy Issues.

Sandeep Thakur

Senior Research Officer

Ph.D in Urban Finance

State and Municipal Finances, Municipal Bonds and Public Private Partnerships, Tracking of Central and State Finance Commissions' Grants and Cost & Recovery Mechanisms of Urban Services.

Debjani Ghosh

Senior Research Officer

Ph.D. in Planning

Decentralised Planning, Management Mechanism in Planning, Rural Development, City Planning.

Mahendra Sethi

Editor

Masters in Mass Communications and Masters in Planning

Urbanization, Land Management, Evolution of Human Settlements, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development in Mountains and Hill areas

Nalini Shangloo

Research Officer

Masters in Political Science

Public Administration, Urban Administration, Urban Management and Urban Planning Legislation.

Archana Roy

Research Officer

Masters in Geography, P.G. Diploma (Cartography)

Urban Information System, Urban Statistics, Urbanisation and Urban Development Issues.

Satmohini Isha Srivastava Ray

Research Officer

Masters in Geography,

Masters in Planning with specialization in Regional Planning (Gold Medalist), SPA

Urban development and planning in sub-sectors of urban governance and capacity building

Umesh C Garkoti 

Librarian

Masters in Library & Information Science and History

Urban documentation, acquisition of books and periodicals on urban development

M Ahmed

Junior Research Officer

Masters in Economics
 

Urbanization, Urban Basic Services, Migration, Urban Informal Sector, Urban Poverty and Urban Economy

Ajay Nigam

Junior Research Officer

 Masters in Commerce & Arts

Managerial Economics, Business Statistics and Urban Sociology & Population Studies

Naveen Mathur

Junior Research Officer

 Masters in Sociology

Urban Finance, Urban Health, e-governance and Urban Development Issues

S.P.Tyagi

Research Analyst

Masters in Economics & Commerce

Urban poverty, Employment, Informal sector, Urban infrastructure, Urban slum development, Urban migration and Urban basic services.  

Promila Jain

Research Analyst

Masters in Economics 

Urbanization, migration, urban informal sector and urban poverty

Satpal Singh

Research Analyst

Ph. D. in Sociology 

Urbanisation, urban governance, urban infrastructure services, municipal finance, urban governance (Specialisation in Solid Waste Management and Municipal Finance)

D.P. Dubey

Investigator

Graduate

Primary and Secondary data collection, field supervision, preparation of analytical tables

Consultants

Nilanjana Dasgupta Sur

Research Fellow

Masters in Urban Planning, SPA & Masters in Geography (Regional Planning)

Urban Planning, Urban/ regional development, urban and environmental management

Ram K Dahiya

Systems Analyst

Masters in Mathematical Statistics, P.G. Diploma in Computer Science

Systems Analysis, Systems Designing, Networking, Internet and Communications

Sangeeta Vijh

Graduate, P.G. Diploma in Computer Science

Indu Senan

Graduate, P.G. Diploma in Computer Applications and Website Designing & Development

T.C. Sharma

Masters in Demography, P.G. Diploma in Computer Science

Mahender Singh Nirwal

Graduate

R.P. Singh 

Administrative & Accounts Officer

Diwan Singh 

Executive Officer

Financial Accounting, Audit and Tax, Business Administration