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Prof. Vaidya is an urban planner from IIT Kharagpur with over
30 years of experience. He is Director of NIUA a premier institute of urban
research and supported by Ministry of Urban Development. He is working closely
with Ministry of Urban Development on Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission. NIUA is the National Coordinator for Peer Exchange and Reflecting
Learning (PEARL) program under JNNURM. Prior to joining NIUA in February 2008,
he was working as Dy. Project Leader, Indo-USAID Financial Institutions Reform
and Expansion Program (FIRE) during 1995-2008,a programme to develop
commercially-viable urban infrastructure projects with focus on urban poor. |