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Call for Applications: Nagar-Nadi Fellowship (India)

Call for Nominations for Forces of Nature Award

Deadline: 25-Jun-21

Applications are invited from freelance writers and researchers with demonstrated ability to work on urban development issues for Nagar-Nadi Fellowship.

People’s Resource Centre (PRC), an independent research organisation based in Delhi, is conducting research on infrastructure development on riverbanks in Indian cities, with a particular focus on riverfront development projects. These projects focus on transforming riverbanks into recreational spaces with an aim to ‘beautify’ cities.

Many of these projects are inspired by the purported success of the Sabarmati Riverfront Development project in Ahmedabad. This has attracted the attention of the political class and the corporate elite in other parts of India which has led to strong interest in getting government and corporate control over the management of riverbanks and adjacent urban resources. All major cities situated on the banks of a river are now planning for or developing riverfronts on the urban stretches of the rivers.

Since these projects are planned for large scale destruction, concretisation and commercialisation of floodplains, it seems plausible that these projects will have a significant bearing on not just the health of our rivers which are already struggling against the degradation caused by capitalist urbanisation but also on the communities inhabiting urban river ecosystems. Contrary to their claims, these projects may further deteriorate the relationship between city and river and exacerbate the urban population’s vulnerabilities to flood, climate crisis, food security and loss of livelihood.

Though the tragic death of rivers in India is a well-researched subject and has been on the central agenda of people’s movements and environmental activism, not enough attention has been paid to the impact of developmental interventions in urban and peri-urban parts of rivers. In this context, this fellowship will involve the case study of infrastructure development on rivers in Indian cities which are either in the construction phase or being planned.

Funding Information

Each fellow will be awarded an overall fellowship of INR Thirty Thousand. A limited amount of travel expenses related to the research for the fellowship will be reimbursed. Remuneration will be in multiple instalments on a pro-rata basis linked with the delivery of pre-agreed interim outputs.

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For more information, visit https://prcindia.in/announcements/cfa-nagar-nadi-fellowship/

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