Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta

Associate Director - Urban Development

Bio

Prerna Mehta is Associate Director of Urban Development at WRI India, where she manages work on practice areas such as Climate Smart Cities, Liveable Neighbourhoods, Innovation, Capacity Building and Project preperation. The key subject of her work includes Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework, Transit Oriented Development, Land Value Capture, Form Based Codes, Public Spaces, Tactical Urbanism, Safe Access, Neighbourhood Improvement Plans, toolkits, and awareness Initiatives like Raahgiri. She works with agencies like The Global Environment Facility (GEF), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank for developing global work related to integrated urban development. She has formulated several national, state and city level policies, regulations as well as guidelines for central and city government in India. At the national level, Prerna is part of various technical committees as well as working groups to provide technical inputs on integrated urban development.

Prerna comes to WRI India with extensive experience in project management, urban research and planning, real estate, architecture, and capacity building. Working with government, non-governmental, private and corporate organizations, her portfolio had array of projects. Her portfolio consisted of work on City Master Plans, Area and Integrated Development Plans, feasibility studies, project formulation and large-scale real estate construction projects.

Prerna holds a master’s in Planning (Housing) from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India. She also holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Nagpur University, India and a diploma in Principles and Practices of Real Estate from Indian Institute of Real Estate, Pune, India. Besides, she has undertaken several certificate courses on managing cities.

Blogs

Ratification of the National TOD Policy and its Implication for Indian Cities
by Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta and Merlyn Mathew - August 01, 2017
The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) in May 2017 adopted the National Transit Oriented Development policy with the intention of providing a guiding document to states and cities that are adopting Transit Oriented Development (TOD) as an urban growth strategy. While Haryana, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Naya Raipur have TOD
Real Estate Regulation Act: A Potential Opportunity for TOD
by Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta and Merlyn Mathew - May 23, 2017
The real estate sector is one of the largest contributors to India’s GDP and touted to grow by 30 percent over the next decade. However, it is also considered the “most ambiguous sector to transact under”, with insufficient regulations leading to numerous
Financing: The Next Step in Facilitating Transit-Oriented Development
by Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta and Merlyn Mathew - January 31, 2017
India's urban population is expected to reach 600 million by 2031. Providing infrastructure to accommodate this growth will be a huge task. The Ministry of Urban Development (

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Ratification of the National TOD Policy and its Implication for Indian Cities

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