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An Initiative of
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
with support from MHRD, Govt. of India

Enhancing
Urban Life
in India

A rapid economic growth of the country over the past two decades have seen to the rise in cities and the facilities demanded by the citizens at an unprecedented scale. There is a battle being fought on rapid urbanization while another battle is brewing on ageing and inadequate infrastructure bounded by physical and fiscal constraints.Multi-hierarchical researches in interdisciplinary fields are the need of the hour to this growing concern related to the future of urban India. more

“The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.”
- Terry Pratchett
“peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.”
- Terry Pratchett
“ managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.”
- Terry Pratchett

  • initiated by IIT Kharagpur

    Supported by MHRD, Govt of India

    Intervention in 4 Major Areas

    involving 32 research modules

    with 59 key research personnel

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    September 2014
    2 more project modules are initiated under “Future of Cities”

    August, 2014
    14 Research Scholars started working in various project modules of “Future of Cities”

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