Name:
Prakash M Apte
E-mail:
apteyconsult@hotmail.com
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Birthday: 10 April, 1939
Bio: Prakash M Apte is a consultant to the World Bank aided resettlement and rehabilitation programme for Mumbai Urban Transport Project involving shifting of 39000 slum dwellers. He was responsible for identification of real estate projects for raising resources for the Transportation Plan for Kalyan Complex near Mumbai and for the six railway stations on the Panvel-Karjat Rail link. For ?Mass Rapid Transit System for Mumbai? (in collaboration with Indo-German Technical Cooperation Mission and Tata Consultancy) envisaging part over ground and part underground rail link between C.S.T. and Churchgate railway stations and extending up to Cuffe Parade, he, as a Real Estate Consultant prepared physical development plans and financial viability for one underground station near ?Hutatma Chowk? and two over ground stations at Badhwar Park and World Trade Centre in Mumbai. Since 1979 he has worked with private sector Real Estate Development Companies like Makers Development Services Mumbai, Spencer Estate, Bangalore & Chennai, Patel & Co. Baroda etc. developing land and designing and executing housing, commercial complexes and star hotels projects.
Born in 1939, he graduated in Architecture from M.S. University of Vadodara and completed Masters Programme in Regional Planning in 1961 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He studied Urban Design at Naples University, Italy in 1963. Later in 1974, he obtained a Diploma in Business Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects and the Institute of Town Planners, India.
He had initial work experience in Architecture, housing and City Planning with Chandigarh Capital Project, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and the Delhi Development Authority. He led a team- to prepare a Development Plan for the 600 sq.km. Asansol region in West Bengal. In 1965, he led a project team, to design and build the new capital city - Gandhinagar - for Gujarat state on a 5400 hectare site. Joining the Housing & Urban Development Corporation of India - HUDCO - in 1972, as Chief (Projects) carried out real estate development for over 1000 projects.
As a Senior Adviser to the Royal Government of Bhutan he prepared the Shelter Strategy for the Capital City, Thimphu. He was a Consultant for World Bank funded Housing programme in Malaysia and in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. In Madhya Pradesh, he reviewed all state legislation related to Housing and Urban Development making specific suggestions for improvement, amendment and changes in the same. In Maharashttra, he critically assessed all legislation related to Urban Development Sector and suggested modifications required to make it more effective. He planned and designed a ?Rehabilitation and Resettlement Project? in India for the Gujarat Slum Improvement Board ?Vivekanand nagar? Township to accommodate about 3122 families.
He is on the Panel of Consultants for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and U.N. Centre for Human Settlements, Nairobi. He has been a member of MHADA, the HURE Board of the Bombay Metropolitan Region Development Authority. He was invited as the 1988 Eisenhower Fellow from India by the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Inc.U.S.A. in the field of Urban Management, the first Architect-Planner from India to be invited so far. He has widely traveled to Europe, Scandinavia, the Far East and the United States of America.
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