Anna Centre For Public Affairs-National Seminar

Organizing Committee:
Dr.P.Ravishankar,Professor & Head
Dr.P.maduraiveeran,Proffessor
Dr.Kalaichelvi Sivaram,Asst.Proffessor
Dr.R.Venkatesh ,Asst.Proffessor
Dr.G.P.Sudha ,Guest Faculty
Dr.P.S.Rajeshwary ,Guest Faculty
Dr.V.Jayanthi, Guest Faculty
Dr.K.Saravanan, Guest Faculty
Mrs.Indu Krishna Prasad, Guest Faculty
Anna Centre For Public Affairs,University Of Madras,Chennai.600005

The Registration fee must be paid in the form of DD(Demand Draft) drawing in the favour of the Organizing Committee Secretary Dr.P Maduraiveeran Payable at Chennai.
The last date for registration is 10 December 2015.
The late registration or spot registration will cost of Rs.2000.

Those who are interested to attend and present the Paper/Research work may send it to the Organization Secretary through e-mail: [email protected]
The research paper/article may not exceed more than 10-12 pages(in A4 size, M.S-word-Times New Roman-Font,Size 12-Line Space 1.5.All the article must be in English)Acceptance of the Abstract will be send to the authors on the evening of 10 December 2015.
Only Online Submission will be accepted.

We Invite Research Papers In the following Sub-themes

• Tracing Urbanization in India :Historical perspective
• Decentralization: Process and its implications
• National Policy on Urban Governance
• Approaches to understand Urban Governance
• Townships, Municipalities, Municipal Corporations, metropolitan Areas
• 74th Amendment and after Urban local body elections
• Urban basic services delivery systems
• Economic opportunities in Urban areas
• Social transformation and Urban governance
• Urbanization and environmental challenges
• Urban health services delivery system
• Child and women welfare in Urban areas
• Peri- Urbanization –Planning and Urban renewal missions
• Quality of Urban life: Liveable cities and smart cities
Sustainability Issues
• NGOs and civil society organizations in Urban context
• Performance and short comings of Urban local bodies
• Resource mobilization , local taxation and financial viabilities
• Urban mobility- Migration and related issues – transport System
• Water Resources – waste water recycling and Drainages
• Solid waste management – Green Technologies – Energy policies
• Public and Private partnership in Urban renewal planning
• Citizen Centric Governance – E-Governance initiatives
• Basic services delivery systems and best practise
• Grievances redressal system , Citizen Engagements
• Good governance and responsive Urban administration
• Smart designs and ICT technologies
• Integrated and holistic approaches
• Heritage cities- special needs and Focused approaches
• Neo- Urban civic Culture