The India Smart Cities Fellowship 2021
We are happy to announce the list of selected candidates for the cohort of 2021-22. Please head to the bottom of this page and click on “Know More” to check if you have made the cut.
The development of Smart Cities is a step in the attempt to create an urban ecosystem that represents a comprehensive development of institutional, physical, social, and economic infrastructure to improve ease of living and attracting people and investments to urban areas. The India Smart Cities Fellowship is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Smart Cities Mission to cultivate youth leadership and usher vibrancy in the design of India’s urban future.
In 2019, a pioneer batch of 39 young professionals was inducted as Fellows, who applied their skills and experience to 12 projects in cities across the country by providing creative solutions to pressing challenges being faced by India’s urban sector. Of these, 7 projects have been identified by MoHUA for product development. The second cohort of the Fellowship consists of 57 Fellows, who were inducted into the Fellowship Programme in March 2020. The Fellows of the present cohort have developed tentative projects to impact the sectors of spatial planning, citizen engagement, tourism, local economies, urban mobility, environment, disaster management, water, education, migration, and health.
Eligibility
Graduates with 1st Division or minimum 60% marks; or, Post Graduates with 1st Division or minimum 60% marks; or, PhDs from premier institutions/universities.
The candidates to be considered for the Fellowship should be from an institute of repute in the following fields, but not limited to
- Urban Planning
- Urban Design
- Engineering and Infrastructure
- Information and Technology
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Governance
- Urban Mobility
- Social Development
- Environment
- Climate Resilience
- Disaster Management
- Health
- Finance
- Education
- Urban Competitiveness
