The Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Environmental Management and Law (PGDUEML) is a specialised course that focuses on strengthening the delivery capacity of urban administrators and environment professionals. PGDUEML is designed to provide in-depth knowledge and understanding of existing urban laws, bylaws and policies.

The course seeks to equip its participants to tackle the loopholes in the present institutional mechanisms for managing urban matters, to propose innovative changes as are necessary in existing laws to find convergence with urban environmental management practices; as well as to effectively implement existing urban laws/policies by blending them with fast changing needs and expectations of a dynamic urban society. Moving forward, it is going to be increasingly tougher to look at urban planning and the environment in isolation; local legislations like building bylaws are already moving towards incorporating environmental clearances and conditions within them, and these lines will likely be further blurred in the future.

Keeping these developments in mind, the course is intended towards the training and capacity building of all those persons concerned with and involved in improving living conditions and quality of life for urban citizens in various capacities by providing them with policy prescriptions, innovations for better urban governance, information and training inputs. It aims to strengthen the human resource pool by creating efficient urban managers.

Programme Objectives

The objectives of the programme are to:

- Provide background knowledge as well as practical tools for addressing crucial urban problems at both policy and implementation levels.

- Enable the participants to propose changes as are necessary in laws to find convergence with urban environmental management practices.

- Present and discuss urban management in the broader perspective of environmental governance and sustainable development issues.

- Train the urban professionals to optimally utilise financial and technical resources or materials, ensuring good governance locally, regionally and nationally.

Course Structure 

The PGDUEML programme comprises 32 Credits or 500 Marks. It shall consist of 5 courses, including four theory-based courses and one Practical Training course. Courses 1 and 4 will be of 6 credits each, while Courses 2 and 3 will be of 8 credits each. The Practical Training course shall carry 4 credits. All the courses are compulsory.

The Course Manual contains an introduction to each unit in the individual Courses of the Programme and has a comprehensive compilation of a list of books, journals, media articles and key judicial pronouncements which should be referred to by the participants. It is dynamic in nature as it is a compilation of suggested readings of the recent developments related to the course.

The Course Manual should be read by the participants to build a good understanding of the subject matter of the course. Further, the participants are expected to be completely familiar with the content of both the course material and the readings suggested in the course manual.

The Course Manual will be shared with the participants online via folders on a One Drive Link, and you are expected to use registered mail ID to access the One Drive link.