Experience

(In Years)

In Academia

23 Years

In Industry

15 Years

Key Institutions worked

Professor, Faculty of Planning, CEPT University

Professor and Head, Dept. of Housing, Faculty of Public Planning & Policy, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad, India.

Publications

Journal

Conferences / Seminars

Patents

Books Published

National

March 2019 CEPT Travel grant to present the paper at PSPC2019 ( Bangkok)

International

June’2013 EU fellowship for UKNA travel grant for the workshop 'The future of Vernacular Cities' at NSU,Singapore.

Expertise Roles

Poverty &employment, Women & gender, Land and Housing, Rural Development, Rural Livelihood & Poverty, Tribal area development. Urban Poverty& employment, Slum and poor income areas, Urban development, Land & Housing

Achievements

Impact of Metro-rail projects on Land use and Land value in Indian cities - The case of Chennai. Book chapter (chapter 4) in Railway Transportation in South Asia (ed), Saptarishi Mitra and others, Springer Nature International (April,2021) Greater than Parts Metropolitan Agglomeration-Level Integrated Urban Planning. Ahmedabad, World Bank Publication, Dec’2020. Rental housing for students-a case study of Kota; IJHSS, IASET: Vol 10,Issue 1,Jan-June 2021

“Integrating Street Vendors in Ahmedabad City” – paper presented at International Municipalika conference on Good Urban governance for safe, healthy, green and smart cities, at University Exhibition Hall, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India – January 2010