An overview of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) India's prospective Research & Innovation University focused on its urbanisation

1. South Asia’s Urban Transformation iihs
turning Challenge into Opportunity
www.iihs.co.in

2. The challenge of contemporary Indian cities:
integration of the pre-colonial, colonial, ‘modern’ & informal

3. Our future hinges on
the state of Indian
cities

4. The Dynamics of Indian Urbanisation
(1951-2031)

5. 1951
Tibet
W. Pakistan
Nepal
E.
Pakistan
India
Population Size (millions)
< 0.1
0.1 – 0.5
0.5 - 1
1-5
>5
Source: Census of India, 1971- 2001
UN, 2007
IIHS analysis, 2009-10

6. 800
2011
Population (in millions)
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031
Delhi Urban Population Growth
(16.9)
Ahmadabad
(5.7)
Kolkata
(15.5)
Mumbai
(20) Hyderabad
(6.7)
Population Size Pune
(millions) (5.0) 800
< 0.1 700
Urban Settlements
0.1 – 0.5 600
0.5 - 1 500
Bangalore 400
1-5 (7.2) 300
Chennai 200
>5 (7.5) 100
0
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031
Source: Census of India, 1971- 2001
UN, 2007
IIHS analysis, 2009-10 Large Urban Settlement Growth

7. 800
2031
Population (in millions)
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031
Delhi Kanpur Urban Population Growth
(24.4) (5.1)
Ahmadabad
(8.5)
Kolkata
Surat (22.3)
(6.3)
Mumbai
(28.6) Hyderabad
(9.9)
Population Size Pune
(millions) (7.4) 800
< 0.1 700
Urban Settlements
0.1 – 0.5 600
0.5 - 1 500
Bangalore 400
1-5 (10.6) 300
Chennai 200
>5 (11.1) 100
0
1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031
Source: Census of India, 1971-2001
UN, 2007
IIHS analysis, 2009-10 Large Urban Settlement Growth

8. Growth of India's Urban Economy (1991-2031)
300
250
Rs.Trillion / lakh crores
200
150
100
50 Rs. 1450 lakh crores
Rs 735 lakh crores
-
1991 2001 2011 2021 2031
Time (years)
GDP (current prices) Urban GDP

9. Who manages Urban India?
Top Management
• MPs & MLAs 5,300
• Higher Judiciary 650
• IAS & IPS 8,200
• CXOs (top 500 corporates) ~ 5,000
• NGO leadership ~ 1,750
Total 20,900
% educated & trained in urban practice < 5%
Middle Management
• Senior Municipal officials ~ 4,000
• Senior Engineers ~ 8,000
• Urban Planners ~ 2,000
Total ~ 14,000
% educated & trained in urban practice < 20%

10. India’s Urban Future (2011-2031)
• India will add at least 300 million new people to its cities in 30 years
• This is on top of the current urban population of ~300 million, of
whom over 70 million are poor
• In 2031, three of the ten largest megacities in the world will be in
India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata
• Over 70 other cities will have a population of over 1 million
• This will be the second largest urbanisation in human history creating
huge market opportunities and development challenges
• The only option to avoid complete urban breakdown is the
simultaneous transformation of India’s cities and its villages
• The key to this the education of a new generation of changemakers
and entrepreneurs and building the capacities and motivation of
current working professionals

11. Limited Supply of Professionals
capable of managing this transition

12. Education of Urban Planners in India
• India has ~ 4,000 qualified planners
• It educates only ~350 new planners each year in a narrow manner
• Of this only a fraction enter into public planning practice
• Most have skills unequal to the complex systemic challenges they face
• With close to 5,000 urban centres, this implies a huge deficit in the
number of planners the country needs
• Hence, some of the largest Municipalities in the country e.g. Mumbai
have no qualified planners on their rolls

13. Why Planning is not enough?
• The fundamental constraint to the orderly growth and
transformation of urban India is
– no longer capital
– nor perhaps technology
– the availability of sufficient numbers of well educated
professionals committed to the common good who
can play the role of changemakers and entrepreneurs.
• India’s higher education system has no inter-disciplinary
programme of scale to educate enough professionals for
the satisfactory planning, development and management
of India’s cities, towns and villages.

14. The Response

15. iihs
India’s first independent
National Research & Innovation University
focused on urban transformation
www.iihs.co.in

16. Why the IIHS ?
• Assumption: India will and can change in dramatic ways by
the 2030s to enable inclusive economic growth, end
poverty, improve human development and quality of life,
enable greater equity and sustainability
• Locus of much of this change: 300 – 400 cities and towns
and their surrounding countryside

17. Goal: catalysing five national outcomes by the 2030s
Inclusive Economic Growth
Reduced Poverty and Inequality
Social Transformation
Environmental Sustainability
Unified & Robust Polity

18. 1,00,000 new interdisciplinary professionals by 2031
• An ‘MBA equivalent’ to coordinate and complement
specialist professions and turn around urban
management, development, renewal & planning;
coordinate and complement specialist professions:
technology, management, design, law
– Bachelors of Urban Practice (BUP)
– Masters of Urban Practice (MUP)
– PhD in Urban Practice

19. IIHS Goal
• The IIHS is a national institution committed to
the equitable, sustainable and efficient
transformation of Indian settlements
• The IIHS aspires to be a globally-ranked, action-
oriented, unique education and research institution of
international stature

20. IIHS Core Concept
National Scale
+
Interdisciplinary Excellence
+
Economic & Social Inclusion
=
1,00,000 professionals (Urban Practitioners) in 20 years
+
Innovative Institutional design & revenue model
+
National Regulation
=
Transformative National Institution

21. The Promoter Group
• Aromar Revi • Nandan Nilekani
• Bansi Mehta • Nasser Munjee
• Chandrashekar B. Bhave • Rahul Mehrotra
• Cyrus Guzder • Rakesh Mohan
• Deepak Parekh • Renana Jhabvala
• Deepak Satwalekar • Shirish Patel
• Jamshyd Godrej • Vijay Kelkar
• Keshub Mahindra • Xerxes Desai
• Kishore Mariwala
Some of India’s leading entrepreneurs, practitioners, public
intellectuals & administrators helped create & manage the IIHS
iihs

22. Five IIHS Programmes
IIHS Programmes
Research & Working Consulting
Academic Distance &
Innovation Professionals & Advisory
e-learning
services
The IIHS aspires to be a globally-ranked, action-oriented, unique
education and research institution of international stature

23. IIHS Academic Programme

24. Interdisciplinary Curriculum
A broad interdisciplinary curriculum that bridges
Social
Design
Sciences
Law &
Technology
Governance
Interdisciplinary
Environmental
Management Curriculum Sciences
(multilingual)

25. Linking research, teaching & practice at IIHS
Case studies
Research Teaching Practice
Education for
Generates Material
Working Professionals
for Teaching

26. IIHS degrees and expected chronology of Initiation
• Masters in Urban Practice (MUP) - 2 years 2012
• PhD in Urban Practice - 2+2 years 2013
• Bachelors in Urban Practice (BUP) - 4 years 2014/15
• Integrated MUP (IMUP) - 4+1 years 2016

27. Employment Opportunities for Students

28. Potential Employers of IIHS students
• Public Sector Enterprises: municipalities and urban local bodies,
state and national governments, regulators, public utilities and
public enterprises
• Private Sector Enterprises: housing, construction, infrastructure,
utility, real estate, finance and advisory services, consultancies;
• Civil Society Organisations: working on community issues,
mobilising collective action, enabling the common good and social
inclusion
• Universities and Knowledge Enterprises: institutions building
South Asia-centric and globally relevant knowledge on human
settlements.
Quantum Consulting a leading market research agency reports
very encouraging responses from students and employers

29. Programme for Working Professionals

30. Programme for Working Professionals
• Education, training and development needs of public, private
and civil society institutions built around various offerings e.g.
– Short-term (1-2 week) specialised thematic courses
– High level (1-3 day) Strategic management programmes
– A mid-career 8 month PG Diploma in Urban Development
• These will be delivered in tandem with consulting and
advisory services
• Erewhon Consulting a leading innovation firm has reported
large and unique unfilled niches for IIHS offerings

31. IIHS Consultancy & Advisory Programme:
bringing together some of the world’s
leading practitioners

32. IIHS Global Knowledge Partnership

33. MIT
North
America
Academic

34. IDEO
North
America
Practice

35. UCL
Europe
Academic

36. ARUP
Europe &
Global
Practice

37. ACC
Africa
Academic
& Practice

38. A global of 180 leading academics, practitioners and policy
makers have co-created the MUP curriculum

39. Faculty & Practitioners

40. A globally hired interdisciplinary Faculty
• A Faculty of over 100 interdisciplinary professionals with
active research and practice experience will be hired
over 4-6 years
• Remunerated bearing in mind national and international
levels of compensation
• Core curriculum and advisors team established in 2009,
active in global consultations and review
• National and global search started, with considerable
enthusiasm in India and abroad

41. iihs
Research
India Urbanisation Atlas V1.1
400 cities and regions around which India will
transform

42. Greater Mumbai

43. IIHS main campus: Bengaluru

44. IIHS campus environs: Kengeri, Bengaluru

45. IIHS City Campus, Bengaluru

46. IIHS Research Offices, Bengaluru

47. Signature campus to cost ~Rs. 250 crore
55 acres allotted by the Govt. of Karnataka to IIHS

48. Implementation Timeline

49. Implementation Timeline
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Startup ◊
Land mobilisation ◊
Campus planning & construction ◊ ◊
IIHS University incorporation ◊
Working Professional education ◊
Consulting & Advisory
Masters (MUP) programme ◊
PhD programme ◊
Bachelors (BUP) programme
Distance & e-learning programme

50. Conclusions

51. Conclusion: Opportunity
• India has a tremendous opportunity through its impending
urbanisation to pre-emptively address multiple
development challenges:
1. Accelerate inclusive economic growth
2. Wealth creation that serves the common good and
eliminates abject poverty
3. Catalyse dramatic social transformation
4. Enable a global sustainability transition
The IIHS is building an significant Open institutional
initiative to enable this …. why not join us to make it
possible?