IIT Kharagpur and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) has inked an MoU for ‘Building Accessible Safe and Inclusive Indian Cities (BASIIC). The collaboration is aimed towards developing a framework for universal city planning which would be more accessible and inclusive for various sections of the community with age-friendly disabled-friendly measures.
Through the Urban & Regional Development Plan Formulation and Implementation Guidelines, NIUA is dwelling upon new emerging aspects like regional development, sustainable habitat, inclusive planning, land use and transport integration at the planning stage, Service Level Benchmarks, disaster management concepts, and governance reforms.
