Sunday, January 10, 2010
Bangalore: A university, claimed to be India’s first devoted to urbanisation and settlement issues, will be started by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), most likely in Bangalore.

Aromar Revi, well-known development consultant, researcher and academic, will be the first executive head of the university and its allied institutions. The academic programme of the university is expected to commence in 2011. The university will have a 100-member faculty from across the world, Mr. Revi told presspersons here on Friday. IIHS is a creation of a group of entrepreneurs, intellectuals and professionals, including Nandan Nilekhani, Shirish Patel, Rakesh Mohan, Keshub Mahindra, Deepak Parekh, Deepak Satwalekar, Jamshyd Godrej, Kishore Mariwala, Nasser Munjee, Rahul Mehrotra, Bansi Mehta, Pradeep Saxena, Xerxes Desai, and Aromar Revi, according to a press release.

Proposed courses include a multi-disciplinary four-year Bachelor’s degree in Urban Practice, a two-year Master’s degree in Urban Practice, doctoral and applied research programmes.