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Meera Mehta is Professor Emeritus at CEPT University and an international consultant with 30 years of experience in water, urban development and infrastructure finance. She joined CEPT in 1979 and was the Director of School for Planning before joining the USAID’s FIRE Project in India (1994-1999) and later the World Bank in India and its Water and Sanitation Program in Africa (2000-2006). She has also consulted for a large number of international agencies, national and local governments, and leading international NGOs. She studied Architecture at under-graduate level and city and regional planning at post-graduate level. She has a doctoral degree in economics
Posts by Meera Mehta
15th Finance Commission: Covid-19 warrants rethink of local government allocations
The 15th Finance Commission has made significant departures from the previous Central Finance Commissions in its recommendations for urban local governments, in its interim report for 2020-21. In this...
- Meera Mehta Dinesh Mehta
- 27 April, 2020
- Perspectives
14th Finance Commission: A trust-based approach towards local governments
The 14th Finance Commission has been hailed as ‘path-breaking’ for recommending larger fund allocations to state governments and giving them more autonomy in spending these funds. In this article...
- Meera Mehta Dinesh Mehta
- 27 April, 2015
- Perspectives
Financing Sanitation
The Government of India has set a rather ambitious goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019. For urban areas, this implies providing toilets to about 22 million households. This column contends th...
- Meera Mehta Dinesh Mehta
- 11 November, 2014
- Articles
Open defecation in cities: A faltering India story
Despite significant public investment in urban sanitation, over 37 million people in Indian cities resort to open defecation. This column examines the existing information on open defecation in urban...
- Meera Mehta Dinesh Mehta
- 23 April, 2014
- Articles