Blogs – PRO

IVS
July 1, 2025
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Can Indian Cities House Their People? The Affordable Housing Crisis

1 July 2025 Can Indian Cities House Their People? The Affordable Housing Crisis One would expect that the vein of housing crises that exist in Europe would not...

IVS
June 23, 2025
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Smart Cities Or Stressed Cities? Planning Challenges In A Hyper-Urbanizing India

23 June 2025 Smart Cities Or Stressed Cities? Planning Challenges In A Hyper-Urbanizing India IntroductionWe all know the perennial flaws plaguing our cities. Perhaps a great fraction of...

IVS
June 19, 2025
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Drenched And Dysfunctional: How Monsoons Expose The Cracks In Urban Planning

19 June 2025 Drenched And Dysfunctional: How Monsoons Expose The Cracks In Urban Planning Perhaps the most faithfully adhered tradition in modern India is the grinding halt of...

IVS
May 12, 2025
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Citizen’s Perception of the Need for and Work of Urban Local Governing Bodies

12 May 2025 Citizen’s Perception of the Need for and Work of Urban Local Governing Bodies - Sheefa Kasar Instance 1“Bunty babach jinkel paha ata tumhi” A man...

IVS
May 12, 2025
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Challenges And Possible Solutions For Sustainable Water Management And Security In Urban India

12 May 2025 Challenges And Possible Solutions For Sustainable Water Management And Security In Urban India ~ Varun Salvi AbstractThrough this Policy research paper, challenges in terms of...

IVS
May 12, 2025
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AI-Driven Urban Mobility: Transforming India’s Transport Systems for a Smarter Future

12 May 2025 AI-Driven Urban Mobility: Transforming India’s Transport Systems for a Smarter Future ~ Sajiri Kamat (UG) In a nation's economy and societal matrix, urban transport is...

Team PRO
March 12, 2025
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Dependent Cities, Weak Governance

12 March 2025 Dependent Cities, Weak Governance Why Municipal Budgets Keep Failing-Tanmay Kanitkar Phrases like "Cities are the engines of development" are frequently heard from our political leaders....

IVS
January 27, 2025
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City E-Governance: The Glass Half Full!

27 January 2025 City E-Governance: The Glass Half Full! -Tanmay Kanitkar Over the last four years, the Policy Research Organization has been consistently publishing an E-Governance Index for...

IVS
December 17, 2024
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Analysis of Maharashtra Assembly Election Campaign

17 December 2024 Analysis of Maharashtra Assembly Election Campaign 2024 -Harshada Gadekar India is the largest democracy in the world and the State of Maharashtra is no...

IVS
December 5, 2024
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New Government, Old Challenges, Fresh Hopes

5 December 2024 New Government, Old Challenges, Fresh Hopes -Vedashree Mohite Maharashtra is home to bustling cities like Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur, where dreams take shape every day....