The Centre for Urban Development Studies (CUDS) was set up at the Dr MCR HRD Institute in July 2001. The primary objective of the Centre is to meet the training requirements of Municipal Administration & Urban Development and other related departments in the State. The CUDS is functioning with grants from Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Govt. of India besides funds received from the State Government through the Institute.

After a brief gap in 2013-14 the centre was reorganized in November 2014 as an independent unit. The CUDS mainly addresses the capacity building needs of the Municipal Administration & Urban Development and other related departments in the State of Telangana. The Centre also focuses on urban issues through research related to urban planning, infrastructure services, shelter, poverty, urban governance and finance.

Vision:To be a premier centre and model of excellence for Capacity Building, Research, and Consultancy in Urban Governance and Management

Mission:To be an empowering agent to facilitate the development of urban functionaries

Core Values:

• Innovation and pursuit of excellence in 'Capacity Building', Research and Consultancy
• Integrity, transparency and openness in all our actions
• High productivity through team work and collaboration
• Professionalism and commitment to work
• Strive to continuously improve our processes and quality

Areas of Specialization and intrest:

• Urban Planning
• Municipal Finance
• Urban Infrastructure - Roads, Housing, Water Supply & Sanitation
• Urban Poverty Alleviation
• Municipal Solid Waste Management
• Public Service Delivery
• Urban Traffic and Transport Management
• Urban Lakes Management
• Urban Disaster Management
• Urban Heritage Conservation and Management

Key Activities

Capacity Building

• Strengthen and build capacity of the ULBs through focused scheduled training and exposure visits for ULB staff and elected representatives in order to improve the vision of ULBs that seek to achieve substantial improvement in performance levels for service provision to its citizens.
• Assessment of training needs of personnel involved in urban administration by undertaking a gap analysis between current skills and required skills.
• Developing competency based training programmes to improve Governance and civic administration
• Promote the creation of interactive platforms for sharing municipal innovations, experiences among municipal managers.
• Develop training material in local language.
• Conduct impact and evaluation studies of the training programmes

Research

• Undertake short and long term research studies in various aspects of urban governance and management.
• Organize studies, surveys etc. to document lessons and disseminate good practices
• Develop data base on urbanization, municipal administration, demographic profile of states/districts, slums, and related aspects, service delivery indicators, municipal finance, urban poverty, government interventions, implementation of urban reforms, housing etc

Consultancy

• Mobilize available expertise in urban affairs and to offer and coordinate technical and consultancy services in land use planning, integrated district planning, GIS Mapping, people friendly urban planning and sustainable development.

Human Resources

The Centre is under the control of the Chief Consultant (Trg./e-Learning) and is manned by the following Professionals and staff

Details of Faculty

Details of Supporting Staff

Completed Programmes/ Assignments - 2017-18 and 2018-19

The following is the summary of completed programmes for 2 years

Training Programmes : 2017-18

Training Programmes 2018-19 (April 2018 to 16th January 2019)

The total number of personnel trained from April 2017 to 16th January 2019 is 1125