Registration and Lunch
The Royal Ballroom
There are over 400 million citizens living in India’s cities. This number is estimated to grow to over 800 million by 2050.
The future of India’s cities depends on our ability to balance growth and development with environmental sustainability and equitable access to opportunities and services, all within a framework of democratic engagement. Fixing India’s city-systems is critical to helping our cities achieve this balance.
The Annual Conclave on Shaping India’s Urban Agenda seeks to advance thought leadership on city-systems reforms and climate governance. Through engaging roundtables and insightful panel discussions, we aim to build salience for a systems approach to cities and climate.
Janaagraha is a Bengaluru-based not-for-profit institution working to transform the quality of life in India’s cities and towns. We define quality of life as comprising of quality of infrastructure and services, and quality of citizenship. To achieve its mission, Janaagraha works with councillors and citizens to catalyse active citizenship in city neighbourhoods, and with governments to institute reforms to city-systems.
Janaagraha has worked extensively on urban policy and governance reforms for over two decades including on JnNURM, and with XIII, XIV and XV Finance Commissions, Second Administrative Reforms Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, NITI Aayog/ Planning Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and state governments of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Assam.
Rainmatter Foundation, based in Bengaluru and founded in 2021 by the co-founders of Zerodha, is a non-profit organisation that has committed to using their resources to support organisations and interventions for climate action, a healthier environment, the restoration of our natural ecosystems, and the livelihoods associated with them.
Rainmatter recognises that climate change is the biggest existential threat to life as we know it and is focused not just on managing grants and funding organisations, but building a platform that dives deep and strategically connects projects and institutions working towards a common climate action goal.
