Page 7 - HUDCO Award for Best Practices - 2024

FOREWORD

With a view to recognise initiatives by various organisations in improving the living environment in our cities
and towns, HUDCO had instituted “HUDCO Awards for Best Practices to improve the Living Environment”
during the financial year 2011-2012. The objective was to create awareness among the policy & decision makers
as well as urban managers by managing, sharing knowledge and dissemination among the stakeholders, , so that
the lessons learnt from such best practices and innovative initiatives could be applied in similarly positioned
other cities and towns as well. In addition, these are also used extensively in technical reports and such other
policy and development activities and capacity building programmes.
Over the years, the HUDCO Best Practices Award, has recognised the best practices developed, adopted and
implemented by various stakeholders such as urban local bodies (ULBs), state government agencies, non-
governmental organisations (NGOs), community based organisations (CBOs) and other public and private
sector institutions towards sustainable development through innovation, managerial skills, implementation
efficiency and partnership between various stakeholders. The themes covered includes areas such as urban
governance, urban transport, housing, urban poverty & infrastructure, environmental management, energy
conservation and green buildings, sanitation, urban design, regional planning, inner-city revitalisation and
conservation and disaster preparedness, mitigation and rehabilitation.

This year, HUDCO has received 44 entries for recognition under the HUDCO Best Awards. These entries
were scrutinised and assessed by a specially constituted Jury Committee of eminent domain experts under the
chairmanship of Prof. Chetan Vaidya, former Director, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and
former director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi. The physical verification was carried out for
shortlisted entries through HUDCO’s regional offices in the respective regions. After detailed examination, the
Jury Committee recommended 10 entries for the award.

I am pleased to note that the research and training wing of HUDCO, the Human Settlement Management
Institute (HUDCO’s HSMI) is bringing a compendium of the award-winning entries for the HUDCO award
for the FY: 2023-24. I am confident that this publication would result in dissemination of these award-winning
best practices and knowledge sharing among the stakeholders. This would also encourage other similarly
positioned cities and towns to try and adopt and replicate some of these innovations with suitable modifications.

I commend HUDCO’s HSMI for their efforts in bringing out this compendium documenting the award-
winning entries for the HUDCO award and I have also suggested HUDCO’s HSMI to formulate special
workshops and capacity building programmes to further disseminate these innovative best practices. I also take
this opportunity to congratulate all award-winning institutions for participating and for winning the award.

Sanjay Kulshrestha
Chairman & Managing Director, HUDCO

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