WRI India and Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company (PMIDC) recently held an inception workshop under the ‘Thriving Eco-City Regions’ initiative in Chandigarh. Chaired by Ms. Isha Kalia, CEO, PMIDC, the workshop brought together diverse stakeholders – different municipal corporations, city administration and PMIDC – on to a common platform to identify prevailing urban challenges and chart pathways that can best address them.
The workshop shed light on -
- Opportunities for data led urban planning and decision making for improving urban management in Punjab’s city regions.
- Key challenges across sectors like water supply and wastewater management, urban planning, and transport.
- The use of the Problem Tree Analysis tool that enables ideation and the streamlining of current and future interventions.
- The need for more such conversations on collaborative action to strengthen capacity building and further incremental solutions.
