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Faced with a crunch of city planners in its urban local bodies, the union urban development ministry is planning to start Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in urban management.
Addressing a delegation at Municipalika 2008 — an international conference on good urban governance — at Mumbai on Thursday, M Ramachandran, secretary for government of India’s ministry of urban development said that the course is in the process of being structured.
Stressing on the need for an MBA in urban and spatial planning on the lines of the Integrated Rural Management Programme (IRMA, Gujarat), Ramachandran said, “We need to have a pool of city planners who can think in terms of integrating land use, capital, find resources for projects and structure projects. Right now we have to depend on consultants for most of these.”
The meet was attended by Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak, state Urban Development principal secretary T C Benjamin among many others.
Ramachandran added that state training institutions like KILA in Kerala, Yashda in Maharastra and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie have been asked include the course. There are also plans to approach the IIMs to ask them to make the course a part of their curricula. Trained in urban planning, these management students can join the local municipal bodies. “The Special Economic Zones that are coming up also require such planners. They will be able to absorb these city managers with some urban local bodies experience,” said Ramachandran.
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