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Town planning is a full-profession in itself with
specialised fields such as environmental planninng, housing
planning, urban planning or transport planning. The primary
aim of town planning is to balance the conflicting demands
made on urban land. Before making a plan, the town planner
has to assess and evaluate all available informationl. This
involves research, surveying the area and consulting with
those in the government's health, sanitation and transport
departments.
Much of the information is technical or in chart, graph or
stastical form and computers are increasingly being used to
store and analyse the data. Besides a fair amount of administrative
and managerial skills, writting reports, addressing meeting,
you will closely work with other professional such as architects,
lawyers, civil engineers, stasticians, sociologists and economists.
You can go into consulting after sufficient experience as
well. There are openings in tourism boards, health authorities,
construction companies and environmental organisations.
Postgraduate courses are offered at:
University of Calcutta Course: PG Diploma in Town Planning.
Eligibility: BE (Civil)/ B Arch,
IIT Khargpur. Course: Master's of City Planning.
Eligibility: B Arch/ BE (Civil) and a percentile score at
GATE.
Anna University, Sadar Patel Road, Guindy, Chennai. Couse:
Master's in Town & Country Planning (MTCP).
Eligibility: B Arch, BE (Civil) or master's degree in geography/
sociology/ econimics/ law.
Bengal Engineering College,PO Botanic Garden,
Howrah. Course: Master's in Town & Regional Planning (MTRP).
Eligibility: BE (Civil), B Arch or master's degree in geography/
economis/ sociology.
Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur. Course:
M Tech (Architecture & Urban Planning).
JNTU School of Planning & Architecture (Jawaharlal Nehru
Technologucal University), Mahavir Marg, Hyderabad. Course:
MURP
School of Planning & Architecture, 4-block-B, Indraprastha
Estate, New Delhi. Course: Master of Planning.
Eligibility : B Arch/ B Planning / BE (Civil)/ B Arch Engineering
of master's degree in geography/ sociology/ econimics with
555 per cent aggregate (50 per cent for SC/ST). Selection
Procedure: Test and/ or interview.
IIT-Roorkee. Roorkee. Course: MURP. Eligibility: BE Civil,
B Arch of master's degree in geography/ economics/ sociology.
Maulana Azad College of Technology (Regional Engineering
College), Bhopal. Course: M Arch (Urban Development Planning)..
Guru Ramdas School of Planning, Guru Nanak Dev University,
Amritsar. Course: M Tech (Urban Planning, Regional Planning
& Housing).
University of Mysore, Crawford Hall, Mysore. Course MURP.
Eligilibility: Bachelor's Degree in civil engineering/ architecure/
Physical planning. Selection procedure Entrance test &
interview.
School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning &
Technology Kasturba Lalbhai Campus, University Road, Navarangpura,
Ahmedabad. Course: PG diploma in Planning (equivalent to master's
degree).
Eligibility: Bachelor's degree in architecture/ Civil engineering
/ Planning or a master's degree in geography/ economics/ sociology.
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