Our Blog is an interactive multimedia platform that showcases articles, photographs, videos, and other art work developed by students from their field experiences. Faculty, scholars, project staff as well as guest authors also contribute to the Blog.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID
Here is our 12th community story, ‘Creating Communities of Care’, where residents of Cheetah Camp in Mankhurd have transformed a BMC school in their neighbourhood into a quarantine facility. The centre is equipped to accommodate almost 25 patients, and conduct saliva tests and assess oxygen levels. In light of the inaccessibility of private and state … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID →
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID
Here is our 12th community story, ‘Creating Communities of Care’, where residents of Cheetah Camp in Mankhurd have transformed a BMC school in their neighbourhood into a quarantine facility. The centre is equipped to accommodate almost 25 patients, and conduct saliva tests and assess oxygen levels. In light of the inaccessibility of private and state … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID →
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19
Our 11th community story is about Prakash, a social worker from the community in the Mankhurd Transit Camp. Prakash noticed that the transit camp, a marginalised and vulnerable community, was being left out of mainstream relief efforts. In order to address this, he contacted Professor Amita Bhide and other NGOs, and conducted a survey of … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19 →
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19
Here is our 10th story about reaching out to communities and individuals at risk during the pandemic. Irshad Sheikh, a member of the M-East Ward, with help from Transforming M Ward, TISS, helps manage five community kitchens in the area that feed close to 6,000 individuals each day. The idea for setting up these kitchens … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19 →
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NIUA IDEATHON – Nudging Civic Behavior towards an Environment-Friendly Delhi
Here is our second presentation from the NIUA Ideathon that our Masters students from the Centre of Urban Policy and Governance participated in. Here they share their innovative measures for managing the task they were assigned and how the curriculum at the Centre has contributed to their knowledge of the urban. Topic: Conserving water at … Continue reading NIUA IDEATHON – Nudging Civic Behavior towards an Environment-Friendly Delhi →
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NIUA IDEATHON – Nudging Civic Behavior towards an Environment-Friendly Delhi
The National Institute of Urban Affairs organised an Ideathon on the topic ‘Ideathon on ‘Nudging Civic Behavior towards an Environment-Friendly Delhi’ to invite ideas and strategies to be considered under the Master Plan of Delhi 2041. Our students from CUPG participated in the contest, and devised innovative ideas to address several concerns of urban governance, … Continue reading NIUA IDEATHON – Nudging Civic Behavior towards an Environment-Friendly Delhi →
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19
We present to you our 9th story from Dharavi where a resident is using social media strategically to draw the attention of authorities and engaging with them on matters of sanitation, hygiene, community toilets.
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19
Here is our 8th story from the community, titled ‘Helping Hands’. In this edition we talk about Mr. Sheikh, an auto rickshaw driver from Cheetah Camp who set up a community kitchen in his neighbourhood for migrant workers who have lost their livelihoods during this time and have little to no access to food and … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19 →
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COVID 19 ESSENTIAL SERVICES MAP – PUNE
Taking Inspiration from the series of maps we created for Mumbai, Rajat Chopra from Datameet Pune Community has created a similar spatial repository of essential resources for his city. Mr. Chopra says, the map has helped him observe patterns of infection and containment in the city. The map demonstrates that areas which have slums right … Continue reading COVID 19 ESSENTIAL SERVICES MAP – PUNE →
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