Related Organisations
(In Alphabetical Order)
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. CNU takes a proactive, multi-disciplinary approach to restoring our communities. Members are the life of the organization – they are the planners, developers, architects, engineers, public officials, investors, and community activists who create and influence our built environment, transforming growth patterns from the inside out.
Energy Alternatives
Getting the world aware of energy for tomorrow
India Urban Portal – The PEARL Website
PEARL is an initiative under JNNURM to support selected cities to actively network among themselves for cross learning and knowledge sharing. As National Coordinator of PEARL, NIUA has set up a PEARL website “India Urban Portal” that is operationalized and linked with JNNURM website. This website documents best practices, projects, reforms, innovations etc. carried out in the selected cities under JNNURM.
INTBAU is a world wide organization dedicated to the support of traditional building, the maintenance of local character and the creation of better places to live. INTBAU is a force for the continuity of tradition in architecture and building and the promotion of traditional urban design, wherever it is found. INTBAU’s architecture and urban design workshops bring together practitioners, artisans and students.
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is a project of India’s central government. Through this project, the central government will fund cities for developing urban infrastructure and services.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is the nodal Ministry of the Government of India for all matters relating to new and renewable energy. The broad aim of the Ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for supplementing the energy requirements of the country.
Alleviation is the apex authority of Government of India and is concerned with perspective planning, policy formulation, processing of projects for investment decision, monitoring of the implementation of power projects, training and manpower development and the administration and enactment of legislation in regard to thermal, hydro power generation, transmission and distribution.
Ministry of Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation
The Ministry of Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation is the apex authority of Government of India at the national level to formulate policies, sponsor and support programme, coordinate the activities of various Central Ministries, State Governments and other nodal authorities and monitor the programmes concerning all the issues of urban employment, poverty and housing in the country.
Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India
The Ministry of Urban Development & the Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation are the apex authority of Government of India at the national level to formulate policies, sponsor and support programme, coordinate the activities of various Central Ministries, State Governments and other nodal authorities and monitor the programmes concerning all the issues of urban development in the country.
Ministry of the Water Resources is the apex authority of Government of India to fulfil the overall planning and coordination of all aspects of the development of the country’s water resources.
The Planning Commission was set up by a Resolution of the Government of India in March 1950 in pursuance of declared objectives of the Government to promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people by efficient exploitation of the resources of the country, increasing production and offering opportunities to all for employment in the service of the community
Project for Public spaces has worked in more than 2,000 communities in 26 countries around the world, helping people turn their public spaces into vital community places, with programs, uses, and people-friendly settings that build local value and serve community needs
