Registrations are invited for 3rd Episode of Up the Ante, Mumbai by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. Register now!
About the Event
Vidhi Maharashtra is hosting the third episode of our conversation series titled ‘Up the Ante, Mumbai/उच्च अपेक्षा’ at the Mumbai Press Club, Fort on June 28th 2024 (this Friday) from 6 pm onwards. Our guests for this episode are Roshni K. Nuggehalli (Executive Director, YUVA), Sachin Nachnekar (Programme Lead, YUVA) and Asma Ansari (Senior Leader, Malvani Yuva Parishad).
It is free and open for all to attend but prior registration is recommended.
About the Conversation Series
Cities are a common good, essential to the quality of life of the people that inhabit them. However, cities in India today, including Mumbai, are broken. Growth driven by market forces has ended up fracturing the natural ecosystem in our cities and neglecting many marginalised communities.
The main objective of this conversation series is to engage in targeted and detailed discussions on a wide range of topics in the area of urban planning, development, and governance. The intention is to identify law and policy solutions to various challenges facing the city of Mumbai today and nudge its inhabitants to demand more from their political representatives who go to polls this year.
At a fundamental level, each of our conversations will try to answer the following questions at the very least:
- What are your expectations from the city?
- Are these expectations met in the way the city is developing? If not, why?
- How can the governance of the city account for your expectations?
- What happens when there are competing expectations/interests? For example, major infrastructure projects for improving connectivity versus livelihoods of marginalised communities.
About the Speaker and the Second Episode
Roshni is Executive Director at Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) a forty-year old non-profit organisation. YUVA aims to address poverty and injustice alongside the poor, with the goal of empowering people to participate in a process of meaningful change. Specifically, Roshni works on issues of youth and child rights, migration, informal economy, climate justice and governance.
Sachin is Programme Lead at YUVA. He leads grassroots projects to empower and uplift underprivileged groups and address systemic inequalities. He especially focuses on developing youth leadership and collective action for change.
Asma is Senior Leader, Malvani Yuva Parishad (MYP), a young people’s collective in Malvani, Malad, in Mumbai’s western suburbs. Since 2014, MYP has led multiple change initiatives locally and at the city-level. Asma continues to inspire many women and adolescent girls to step into roles of leadership for change.
The episode will focus on how the youth in Mumbai’s informal settlements experience and shape the city around them. We will speak to Asma about livability in Mumbai and draw from her experiences growing up in a basti. Sachin will walk us through how civil society organisations are partnering with young people for changes in city planning, development and governance. We will also speak to Roshni about how youth participation in planning and governance of the city can be brought to the mainstream and potentially institutionalised. The conversation will be conducted primarily in Hindi to reach a wider audience.
How to Register?
Interested participants can register using the link provided at the end of this post.
Important Details
- Event Date: June 28th, 2024 (Friday).
- Event Timing: 6-7:30 pm.
- Event Address: Mumbai Press Club, Fort.
- For any other queries, contact: [email protected]
Entry is free and open to all! We welcome people from law, social sciences and all walks of life. Tea and snacks will be available at the end of the conversation.
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