A Shortage Of Planners In Mumbai, India
A generation of planners is retiring in Mumbai, and there are too few willing to take their place.
But a recent advertisement for such a post in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has evoked a lukewarm response, and prompted observers to forecast a potential crisis -- a town planning authority without experienced planners... Most recently, V K Phatak retired as chief of town and country planning in Februarythe job now up for grabs and next in line is the equally experienced Pendharkar, who will finish his term's head of the planning division in May."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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Published on Monday, October 24, 2005 in
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