Dr. Anurima Mukherjee Basu

Designation: Associate Professor

Email: anurima.basu@adaniuni.ac.in

Academic Area: Public Policy & Economics, Urban Development and Planning

Brief Profile:

Dr Anurima Mukherjee Basu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management Sciences at Adani University. She has experience of over 22 years, traversing domains of teaching, research and consultancy. Anurima has been teaching and mentoring students at Postgraduate and undergraduate levels for over 13 years. Prior to that she has worked in consultancy and research organisations as research/ project lead and key sectoral expert. She has diverse experience of working across several Indian states in government and multilateral donor funded projects. Her research interests are on issues of Governance and Institutional Analysis, Urban Development Finance, Urban Planning and Environmental issues.
Her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are in Economics from Calcutta University. She has done Post-Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning and PhD in Planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India.
Prior to joining Adani University, she was associated with CEPT University, Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise (IPE) Pvt Ltd and Institute of Social Sciences, Kolkata.


  • PhD, CEPT University
  • P.G Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning, CEPT University
  • M.Sc. (Economics), Calcutta University
  • B.Sc. (Economics), Calcutta University

  • July 2020 – Dec 2023 – Independent Researcher and Visiting Faculty
  • Sept 2010 – June 2020: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Planning, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
  • Jan 2006 – July 2010: Manager-Research, Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise (IPE) Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, Kolkata.
  • March 2003-Sept 2005: Research Associate, Institute of Social Sciences, Kolkata
  • Dec 2001 – Dec 2002: Research Assistant, CEPT Research and Development Unit (CRDU), CEPT, Ahmedabad

  • Member, Institute of Town Planners of India (ITPI)

  • Governance and Institutional Analysis, Urban Development Finance, Urban Planning and Environmental issues

  • Rural-Urban Interlinkages, Governance and Infrastructure delivery

Book

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee. 2022. Participatory Governance and Contestations in Local Politics: The urban poor in a small city in India, Copal Publishing: Ghaziabad.

Book Chapters

Ramesh, Aparna & Anurima Mukherjee Basu (2021). “Governance of Water Supply in Small and Medium Towns of Karnataka” in Arnab Jana and Pradipta Banerjee (eds), Urban Science and Engineering: Proceedings of ICUSE 2020, Springer Nature: Singapore.

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee (2018), Local Communities in Forest Management: An Evaluation in Bhattacharyya, A and Basu, S. (Eds.), Marginalities in India: Themes and Perspectives, Springer Nature: Singapore.

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee (2016), “Public Participation, Urban Governance and Planning: Perspectives and Concerns” in Ashok Kumar and Poonam Prakash (eds). Public Participation in Planning in India, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mahadevia, D. and Anurima Mukherjee (2003), “Urban Reforms and Impacts” in Darshini Mahadevia (eds), Globalisation, Urban Reforms and Metropolitan Response: India, Manak Publications, New Delhi: pp 68 – 150.

Mahadevia, D. and Anurima Mukherjee (2003), “Implications of Financing Infrastructure through Debt – Ahmedabad”, in Darshini Mahadevia (eds), Globalisation, Urban Reforms and Metropolitan Response: India, Manak Publications, New Delhi: pp 243 – 275.

Mahadevia, D. and Anurima Mukherjee (2003), “Bangalore City Budget Analysis–Some Issues”, in Darshini

Mahadevia (eds), Globalisation, Urban Reforms and Metropolitan Response: India, Manak Publications, New Delhi: pp 276 – 352.

Journal articles/ working papers

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee and Rutool Sharma (2021), “Urban–Rural Dichotomy in Planning: Review of Legal Framework in Four States of India”, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol 67: 1 (40-53), https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561211001610

Jain, Manisha, Korzhenevych, A. and Basu, Anurima Mukherjee (2021), “Integrating spatial development with infrastructure provision along an envisioned transport corridor: A conceptual framework and its application to India”, Land Use Policy 104 (2021) 105364, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105364

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee and Kanishka Khanna (2020), “Participation for whom? A Study of Anudan Scheme for Solid Waste Management in Surat”, Local Government Quarterly, Vol XC No 1, pp 6-17.

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee and Shruti Punjabi (2019), “Participation in solid waste management: Lessons from the Advanced Locality Management (ALM) programme of Mumbai”, Journal of Urban Management: 9 (2020): 93-103, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2019.11.002

Dhaarna, Anurima Mukherjee Basu (2017), “Municipal Governance: A Study of Small and Medium Towns of Uttar Pradesh”, Urban Panorama, Vol XVI No 1, pp 65-77. ISSN 0975-8534.

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee (2013), “New Forms of Partnerships in Urban Governance”, South Asian Journal of Socio-political Studies, Vol XII, No. 2. ISSN No 0972-4613.

Basu, Anurima Mukherjee, Ray, C.N and Ravi S.S., (2011) “Assessment of Cluster Development Initiative: Case Study of Chanderi Handloom Cluster” Working paper No 50, Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Mahadevia, D. and Anurima Mukherjee (2003), “Municipal Finances and Development in Small and Medium Towns: Comparing of Gujarat, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh”, Working Paper Series No. 18, Institute of Human Development (IHD), New Delhi.

Mukherjee, Anurima and Mahadevia, D. (2002), “Sustainability of Innovative Financing of Urban Infrastructure: Case of Ahmedabad and Vadodara”, Working Paper No. 22, School of Planning, CEPT.

Mukherjee, Anurima and Mahadevia, D. (2002), “Infrastructure Financing through Municipal Bonds –Ahmedabad Experience”, in Spatio-Economic Development Record, Vol 9, No. 6, November – December.

  • Invited lecture on “Urban and Regional Planning Research Paradigms” at webinar organized by M.S University, Feb 12, 2022
  • Invited lecture on “Water Management in Global South” to students at the Academy of Built Environment and Logistics, Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Breda, Netherlands, Jan 19, 2022 (online mode).
  • Invited lecture on “Urbanisation Trends in Gujarat” at Nirma University for students of Regional Planning Studio, B Plan Semester VI, March 25, 2021.
  • Invited lecture on “Access to Water in Indian Cities” to students at the Academy of Built Environment and Logistics, Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Breda, Netherlands, Jan 5, 2021 (online mode).
  • Keynote speech on “Challenges of Governing and Developing Rurban Areas in India” at the First International Forum on Urban-Rural Linkages, organized by UN-Habitat and Songyang County People’s Government, Songyang County, China, 10-14 November 2019
  • Invited lecture on ‘Mixed Methods of Research in Planning’, organised as part of PhD Research Colloquium, Doctoral Programme, CEPT University, Feb 22, 2019.
  • Expert lecture on Participatory Local Governance: Theory and Praxis at the National Conference on ‘Building Inclusive Urban Communities (BInUCom)’, at School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, February 6-8, 2019.
  • Chair-person for session on Informal Settlements and Housing at the National Conference on ‘Building Inclusive Urban Communities (BInUCom)’, at School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, February 6-8, 2019.