[Reader-list] Invitation to a special lecture by Isher Judge Ahluwalia at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invites you to a special lecture


*Urban governance in India*
by *Isher Judge Ahluwalia*


*Awadhendra Sharan *will Chair

Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 5.30 pm
                                           *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar Room,
                                                                  Tel: 011
23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
                                                      Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 5 pm
                                                                email:
jaya at csds.in




The pace and growth of urbanization in India poses enormous challenges to
urban governance. The lecture will examine the institutional features and
devolution mechanisms within which cities have to deliver better quality of
life for their residents and generate an investment climate capable of
sustaining the rapid growth. The lack of empowerment of cities is
constraining their ability to translate the urban development agenda into
action and institutional reforms are crucial for reaching out to the
private sector for sharing the financing burden and ensuring that it
results in improved service delivery.

*Isher Judge Ahluwalia* is an eminent Indian economist and Chairperson of
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New
Delhi. Her research focuses on policy oriented challenges facing the Indian
economy in the areas of urbanisation, sustainable public service delivery,
macroeconomic issues, industrial growth and productivity.

Her publications include *Transforming Our Cities: Postcards of Change* (2014),
and a co-edited volume *Urbanisation in India: Challenges, Opportunities
and the Way Forward* (2014). She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2009 for her
services in the field of education and literature.

*Awadhendra Sharan* is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi.



-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai