The State government will organise the Kerala Urban Conclave in Kochi on September 12 and 13 with an aim to formulate a comprehensive urban policy to guide the State’s development activities for the next 25 years. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the conclave to be held at the Hyatt Convention Centre. The conclave will become a platform for public discussions and debates on the recommendations of the Urban Policy Commission that were submitted to the Chief Minister earlier this year.
The commission, headed by M. Satheesh Kumar, a Senior Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Belfast, prepared the 2,359-page report based on 33 short studies and 53 stakeholder meetings with 2,500 individuals from various sectors across all districts.
