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Dr N. Sridharan
Dr. N. Sridharan has been Professor and Head of the Department of Regional Planning at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi where he has been teaching since 1990.

He has a PhD from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in Urban Planning, a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional planning, and Economics, in addition to Postgraduate Diplomas in Town and Country Planning and Financial Management. He has been the recipient of many prestigious scholarships, including the Polish Government Scholarships of UNESCO and Australian Government Scholarship. He is one of the Vice Presidents of the Regional Science Association, India.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
a)Ph.D thesis on “ Economic Reforms and its impact on Urban Land Markets”, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.2004.

Thesis Focus: In India, economic reforms have not helped in overcoming urban land market problems. Rent-seeking groups and their complex nature have pressurized land markets. Using a public choice approach, the thesis analyses the rent-seeking behaviour of agents in the pre- and post-reform period through metropolitan case studies of Delhi and Ahmedabad. The central recommendation of the thesis is for the state to shift from regulatory to facilitative policies in order to achieve more efficient and equitable outcomes in India's urban land markets.

b)Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. 1991.

c)Post Graduate Diploma in Town & Country Planning, Technical University of Szczecin, Poland. 1986. Dissertation on: Solutions to Urban Poverty Syndrome in India.

d) Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi. 1983. Master’s thesis was on “Multilateral Finance for Urban Development”.

The thesis focused on the effectiveness of various sources of finances and the conditionality associated with those sources of funding at the local level urban development issues. It argued that the external financing was effective in an environment where only peer pressure and productivity and efficiency counts. The case study was in Chennai (formerly known as Madras in South India) where the World Bank has funded heavily for urban development including economic development.

e)  Master’s Degree in Economics, University of Madras, 1980.