About Our Capacity Building Initiatives
AMRUT-CUP-MNIT shall be built to strengthen the capabilities of urban stakeholders such as Experts, Planners, Architects etc., through capacity building programs. It focuses on developing the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to address complex urban challenges. We offer training modules, workshops, certification programs, and knowledge-sharing platforms targeting officials from ULBs, planning authorities, engineers, architects, urban designers, academicians, and students. Training programs will cover various themes and durations. Some core and essential training programmes will be offered periodically throughout the year, while customized modules will be developed and delivered on demand, based on institutional needs and sectoral requirements. These trainings are primarily aimed at strengthening the capabilities of working professionals and urban practitioners; they will also remain open to students, researchers, and other knowledge seekers interested in urban transformation and planning innovation.
Our Workshops
Dates: 20th - 24th January 2025
A five-day workshop at MNIT Jaipur dedicated to advancing sustainable design, exploring cutting-edge technologies, renewable energy solutions, and policy regulatory frameworks to achieve net-zero buildings. It highlights an ecosystem approach to achieving occupant thermal comfort, energy efficiency, carbon emission reduction, and life cycle cost optimization by utilizing advanced building materials, façade, passive features, lighting, HVAC, renewable sources, and storage systems. The aim is to equip participants with comprehensive knowledge and strategies to decarbonize the built environment in India. This workshop brings together international leading experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore and exchange innovative strategies, utilizing emerging technologies, and policies essential for achieving decarbonization in the built environment and contributing to India’s net zero target 2070. It aims to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing among professionals, researchers, academicians, and policymakers.
- Introduction on net zero
- Climate change and built environment
- Occupant comfort and health
- Building energy efficiency
- Integration of RE and storage for decarbonization
- Policy landscape for net zero
- Policy landscape for decarbonisation and net zero
- Enabling occupant thermal comfort to reduce energy
- Climate adaptive material, passive intervention
- Emerging technology for a sustainable built environment
- Understanding embodied energy and life cycle performance
- Optimization technique for net zero design
Dates: 21st - 25th January, 2025
A five-day Short-Term Training Program (STTP) for engineers of the Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB), organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), GoI. A total of 104 officials from RHB attended. Participants included 54 PE Jr. (Diploma), 38 PE Jr. (Degree), 7 PE Jr. (Electric), and 5 Sr. Draftsmen.
- Implementation of RHB Schemes for Sustainable Practices
- Field Data Collection Methods and Techniques, Field Investigations
- Construction Material Testing and Quality Standards for Buildings and Roads
- Quality Control: Standards, Setups, and Quality Assurance Processes
- Hands-on/ Demonstration of Road Material/ Concrete
- Estimation of Design Capacities for Drainage and Design
- Water Harvesting and System Design
- Ductile Reinforcement Detailing and Code Provisions
- Hands-on Exercise on GNSS Data Collection and Geo-tagging
- Cracks in Masonry Structures
- Healthy Built Environment for Construction
- Field Visit
- Mode of Measurements for Buildings and Roads
- Cost Estimation for Single and Multi-Story Buildings
- Good Construction Practices and Study of Maps and Drawings
- Determination of Minimum Bid Price (MBP) and Costing Principle+ Plantation, Execution, and Maintenance
- RERA Act and its Implementation and Other Relevant Acts
- Valedictory and Feedback Session
Dates: 9th – 13th March 2025
A five-day workshop at MNIT Jaipur focusing on urban poverty alleviation through flagship government schemes and on the DAY-NULM scheme. It brings together researchers, policymakers, and urban development practitioners to promote collaborative learning and critical evaluation. Through interactive lectures, hands-on exercises, and expert consultations, the workshop aims to deepen understanding and enhance the impact of these transformative initiatives.
- Research Design in Government-Funded Urban Projects
- Urban Studies Research: Best Practices in Data Collection, Challenges, and Solutions
- Research Insights on DAY-NULM and PM SVANidhi
- Strategic Stakeholder Engagement for Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Consultation Workshop: Addressing Research Challenges & Data Gaps
Date: 24th March, 2025
Organized at the AMRUT funded centre at MNIT Jaipur. The aim was to present technological advancements and best urban development practices, case studies, and explore areas of potential collaboration where MNIT Jaipur can work with stakeholders to address urban planning and development issues in the state. The workshop focused on scientific, technological, and socio-economic aspects of urban development. It was open to various stakeholders including experts from academia, industry, research scholars, students, and organisations under the Urban Development and Housing (UDH) Department of the Government of Rajasthan. The event witnessed active participation and engagement.
- Digital and Smart Cities
- Urbanisation policy for Rajasthan
- Technologies of Spatial Data Collection for Urban Applications
- Integrated Water Cycle Management
- Urban Development Financing Options
- Urban development through private sector participation and urban reforms legislative reforms
- Smart mobility and multi-modal integration
- Planned urban development
- Zero-carbon cities
- Innovative urban infrastructure Technologies
- Sustainable Development through Research and Collaboration
Dates: 7th - 9th May, 2025
A three-day Short-Term Training Program (STTP) for engineers, organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur, sponsored by Rajasthan Urban Drinking Water Sewerage and Infrastructure Corporation Ltd.(A Govt. of Rajasthan undertaking).
- Implementation of RHB Schemes for Sustainable Practices
- Field Data Collection Methods and Techniques, Field Investigations
- Construction Material Testing and Quality Standards for Buildings and Roads
- Quality Control: Standards, Setups, and Quality Assurance Processes
- Hands-on/ Demonstration of Road Material/ Concrete
- Estimation of Design Capacities for Drainage and Design
- Water Harvesting and System Design
- Ductile Reinforcement Detailing and Code Provisions
- Hands-on Exercise on GNSS Data Collection and Geo-tagging
- Cracks in Masonry Structures
- Healthy Built Environment for Construction
- Field Visit
- Mode of Measurements for Buildings and Roads
- Cost Estimation for Single and Multi-Story Buildings
- Good Construction Practices and Study of Maps and Drawings
- Determination of Minimum Bid Price (MBP) and Costing Principle+ Plantation, Execution, and Maintenance
- RERA Act and its Implementation and Other Relevant Acts
- Valedictory and Feedback Session
Dates: 2nd - 4th June, 2025
This three-day training program aimed to build technical competencies, practical insights, and policy-level understanding among environmental professionals, academicians, and municipal stakeholders on the challenges and opportunities in India’s urban waste management sector. The program brought together experts from academia, the private sector, and the government to deliver a well-rounded perspective on solid waste management (SWM), resource recovery technologies, decentralised approaches, and community engagement strategies. Structured to balance theory with practical exposure, the program also included hands-on lab visits, GIS-based exercises, and a field-oriented learning environment.
- Introduction to management of solid waste in Urban Scenario
- Management and material flow assessment of solid waste
- Role of community engagement in urban cleanliness
- Lab exercise on energy recovery from the solid waste
- Resource recovery and disposal of e-waste
- Processing of organic solid waste and recovery of valuable materials
- Visit to energy lab
- Geospatial Technologies and Solid Waste Management
- Hands on exercise on waste monitoring using GIS
- Best practices in SWM
- Challenges in solid waste management
- Methods for disposal of treated solid waste
- SWM rules 2024 & Decentralised waste management strategies
- Presentation & Feedback session
Dates: 11th - 13th June, 2025
A three-day Short-Term Training Program (STTP) for engineers, organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur, sponsored by Rajasthan Urban Drinking Water Sewerage and Infrastructure Corporation Ltd.(A Govt. of Rajasthan undertaking).
- Overview of catchment hydrology and processes; Catchment characteristics and data required for hydrological investigations
- Overview of Mini Group Project
- Time series analysis and generation of intensity duration frequency curves and methods for catchment yield
- Hands-on Exercise on Frequency Analysis
- Laboratory testing for estimation of infiltration,capturing meteorological data (AWS), and basic soil properties
- Introduction of GIS and demonstration of ArcGIS
- Estimation of catchment yield, water balance components, Rainfall-runoff process and hydrological cycle components using models
- Hands-on Training Exercise for Catchment database preparation in GIS
- Catchment restoration and conservation: Issues and challenges,measures and potential intervention works
- Best management practices for urban catchment restoration and conservation
- Hands-on exercise on rainfall-runoff model for catchment yield estimation using (ArcSWAT)
- Presentations of Mini-group Project
- Valedictory and Feedback Session
Dates: 25th - 27th June, 2025
A three-day Short-Term Training Program (STTP) for engineers, organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur, Sponsored by Rajasthan Urban Drinking Water Sewerage and Infrastructure Corporation Ltd.(A Govt. of Rajasthan undertaking), GoI.
- Water Resources System of cities: Hydrological cycle,system characteristics,system components, issues and challenges
- Hydrological data required for the stormwater drainage system planning & design and field investigations
- Building bylaws and provisions for drainage systems for cities
- Catchment database preparation in GIS forhydrological analysis
- Time series analysis and generation of intensity duration frequency curves, and estimation of design rainfall
- Rainfall-runoff modelling and estimation of hydrological cycle components
- Estimation of Design Flows for drainage design and flow routing (SWMM)
- Tutorial exercise on IDF curve generation
- Drainage Master Planning: Planning of drainage systems for cities and planning provisions, selection of the type of drains and network.
- Design of the drainage system
- Hands-on exercise on rainfall-runoff modelling (SWMM)
- Feedback session valedictory
Dates: 21st - 25th July, 2025
A five-day Training programmes on "Geospatial Technologies & AMRUT Guidelines for Master Plan Formulation", organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur with co-sponsored by Department of Local Bodies.
- Spatial Technology for data capturing and spatial data collectionusig lase based methods like LIDAR, UAV's Laser scanners, GPR.
- Remote Sensing data products, referencing, ordering & Introduction to GNSS technologies and spatial data collection.
- Field exercise- spatial data collection using GNSS, Extration of information.
- Hands-on exercise on preparation of land use / cover map , map scanning , geo referncing image subset, image mosaicking.
- Introduction of GIS: Basic concepts, capabilities & functionalities and database creation, attribute handling & information extraction.
- URDPFI guidelines for formulation of Master Plan.
- Urban Heat islands and mitigation measures.
- AMRUT guidelines for formulation of GIS-based Master Plan and Layers proposed in AMRUT 2.0 guidelines creation.
- Data uploading on the AMRUT GIS platform.
- Presentations, Feedback and Disscussion.
Dates: 21st - 25th July, 2025
A five-day Workshop programmes on "A Data Driven Approach Towards Smart Cities", organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur with co-sponsored by Department of Local Bodies.
- Spatial Technology for data capturing and spatial data collectionusig lase based methods like LIDAR, UAV's Laser scanners, GPR.
- Remote Sensing data products, referencing, ordering & Introduction to GNSS technologies and spatial data collection.
- Field exercise- spatial data collection using GNSS, Extration of information.
- Hands-on exercise on preparation of land use / cover map , map scanning , geo referncing image subset, image mosaicking.
- Introduction of GIS: Basic concepts, capabilities & functionalities and database creation, attribute handling & information extraction.
- URDPFI guidelines for formulation of Master Plan.
- Urban Heat islands and mitigation measures.
- AMRUT guidelines for formulation of GIS-based Master Plan and Layers proposed in AMRUT 2.0 guidelines creation.
- Data uploading on the AMRUT GIS platform.
- Presentations, Feedback and Disscussion.
Dates: 28st - 01st August, 2025
A five-day Training programmes on "Geospatial Technologies & AMRUT Guidelines for Master Plan Formulation", organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur with co-sponsored by Department of Local Bodies.
- Spatial Technology for data capturing and spatial data collectionusig lase based methods like LIDAR, UAV's Laser scanners, GPR.
- Remote Sensing data products, referencing, ordering & Introduction to GNSS technologies and spatial data collection.
- Field exercise- spatial data collection using GNSS, Extration of information.
- Hands-on exercise on preparation of land use / cover map , map scanning , geo referncing image subset, image mosaicking.
- Introduction of GIS: Basic concepts, capabilities & functionalities and database creation, attribute handling & information extraction.
- URDPFI guidelines for formulation of Master Plan.
- Urban Heat islands and mitigation measures.
- AMRUT guidelines for formulation of GIS-based Master Plan and Layers proposed in AMRUT 2.0 guidelines creation.
- Data uploading on the AMRUT GIS platform.
- Presentations, Feedback and Disscussion.
Dates: 04th August- 08th August, 2025
A five-day Training programmes on "Geospatial Technologies & AMRUT Guidelines for Master Plan Formulation", organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur with co-sponsored by Department of Local Bodies.
- Spatial Technology for data capturing and spatial data collectionusig lase based methods like LIDAR, UAV's Laser scanners, GPR.
- Remote Sensing data products, referencing, ordering & Introduction to GNSS technologies and spatial data collection.
- Field exercise- spatial data collection using GNSS, Extration of information.
- Hands-on exercise on preparation of land use / cover map , map scanning , geo referncing image subset, image mosaicking.
- Introduction of GIS: Basic concepts, capabilities & functionalities and database creation, attribute handling & information extraction.
- URDPFI guidelines for formulation of Master Plan.
- Urban Heat islands and mitigation measures.
- AMRUT guidelines for formulation of GIS-based Master Plan and Layers proposed in AMRUT 2.0 guidelines creation.
- Data uploading on the AMRUT GIS platform.
- Presentations, Feedback and Disscussion.
Dates: 04th August- 08th August, 2025
A five-day Workshop programmes on "Smart Cities and Mobility Research: Tools, Technologies, and Applications", organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur with co-sponsored by Department of Local Bodies.
- Spatial Technology for data capturing and spatial data collectionusig lase based methods like LIDAR, UAV's Laser scanners, GPR.
- Remote Sensing data products, referencing, ordering & Introduction to GNSS technologies and spatial data collection.
- Field exercise- spatial data collection using GNSS, Extration of information.
- Hands-on exercise on preparation of land use / cover map , map scanning , geo referncing image subset, image mosaicking.
- Introduction of GIS: Basic concepts, capabilities & functionalities and database creation, attribute handling & information extraction.
- URDPFI guidelines for formulation of Master Plan.
- Urban Heat islands and mitigation measures.
- AMRUT guidelines for formulation of GIS-based Master Plan and Layers proposed in AMRUT 2.0 guidelines creation.
- Data uploading on the AMRUT GIS platform.
- Presentations, Feedback and Disscussion.
Dates: 01st September- 15th October, 2025
A five-day Training programmes on "Geospatial Technologies & AMRUT Guidelines for Master Plan Formulation", organized by the AMRUT Centre for Urban Planning and Capacity Building at MNIT Jaipur with co-sponsored by Department of Local Bodies.
- Spatial Technology for data capturing and spatial data collectionusig lase based methods like LIDAR, UAV's Laser scanners, GPR.
- Remote Sensing data products, referencing, ordering & Introduction to GNSS technologies and spatial data collection.
- Field exercise- spatial data collection using GNSS, Extration of information.
- Hands-on exercise on preparation of land use / cover map , map scanning , geo referncing image subset, image mosaicking.
- Introduction of GIS: Basic concepts, capabilities & functionalities and database creation, attribute handling & information extraction.
- URDPFI guidelines for formulation of Master Plan.
- Urban Heat islands and mitigation measures.
- AMRUT guidelines for formulation of GIS-based Master Plan and Layers proposed in AMRUT 2.0 guidelines creation.
- Data uploading on the AMRUT GIS platform.
- Presentations, Feedback and Disscussion.
