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Two week Course for Overseas Professionals on “Right to Adequate Housing in the context of
Habitat III New Urban Agenda - Policies, Planning And Practices Under ITEC”
(March 12 - 25, 2025)

HUDCO’s Human Settlement Management Institute (HSMI) organised the 56 Training Programme for
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overseas professionals on “Right to Adequate Housing in the context of Habitat III -New Urban Agenda
- Policies, Planning and Practices” sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs(MEA), Government
of India under its ITEC Programme during March 12 - 25, 2025. The programme was inaugurated by
Shri Sanjay Kulshrestha, Chairman and Managing Director, HUDCO on March 13 , 2025 in the presence

of Shri M Nagaraj, Director (Corporate Planning) HUDCO, Shri Daljeet Singh Khatri, Director (Finance)
HUDCO, Shri S P Tripathi, Senior Executive Director HUDCO and Ms. Varsha Punhani, Head, HUDCO’s
HSMI.

56 ITEC batch of overseas professionals with Shri Sanjay Kulshrestha, Chairman & Managing Director HUDCO and Senior
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Officers of HUDCO and HUDCO’s HSMI
The training programme was attended by 25 delegates from 22 countries namely Cape Verde Island,
Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar,
Nigeria, Paraguay, Romania, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam. The
programme was conducted on participatory lines with deliberations and insights from the domain experts
as well as the participants. In addition to HSMI Faculty, the technical inputs were delivered by experts
drawn from the Government sector, private sector and academia. The notable speakers invited to take
sessions included Prof. Amitabh Kundu, distinguished fellow at Research and Information System for
Developing Countries; Ms. Banashree Banerjee, Independent Consultant & Associate Staff Member,
IHS-Rotterdam; Ms. Mukta Naik, Fellow, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi and
Dr. Ruchita Gupta, Asstt. Professor, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi.
During the course of two weeks, the participants were exposed to the concepts and various aspects of right
to housing, affordable housing, emerging technologies, Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana (PMAY), housing
and urban development policy frameworks and financing models for affordable housing. The technical
sessions were interspersed with visits to project sides and places of cultural and historical importance
in Delhi. The participants were also taken on an outstation trip to Chandigarh - the first planned city of
independent India and on a day trip to Agra.

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