Mukta Naik
CPR (India)
Areas of expertise:
Governance, Social Issues
An architect and urban planner, Mukta Naik’s research interests include housing and urban poverty, urban informality, internal migration as well as urban transformations in small cities. At CPR, Mukta focuses her work on understanding the links between internal migration and urbanization in the Indian context. Prior to joining CPR, she worked with social enterprise micro Home Solutions on community-based interventions to improve housing in informal settlements. Mukta is a graduate of School of Planning and Architecture (1999). She has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University (2002) and is currently a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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podcastRedesigning India’s Social Protection Financing Architecture to meet the Challenge of COVID-19
- April 21, 2020CPR (India)
A proposal for a reformed structure of financial institutions based on decentralisation, consolidation, and convergence.
A Crisis of Hunger: a ground report on the repercussions of COVID-19 related lockdown on Delhi’s vulnerable populations
- March 27, 2020CPR (India)
Delhi’s most vulnerable populations are facing severe repercussions, this report points to possible solutions.
Lockdown: With Gender Roles Being Reinforced, Countless Women Left Voiceless
- April 2, 2020CPR (India)
There has been little policy attention to the gendered dynamics of patriarchal households and the vulnerabilities of women in them.
Gurugram: Tackling Food Distress Needs Urgent, Systemic State Action
- May 6, 2020CPR (India)
As coronavirus hotspots are identified and containment zones established, ‘hunger hotspots’ get no mention.
The Challenges of Managing a Hunger Crisis Amidst a Public Health Emergency
- March 29, 2020CPR (India)
There’s a disconnect between the government’s responses to the hunger and health crisis among the most vulnerable populations.
Messy Does It: The Everyday Politics of Pandemic Response in an Indian City
- June 17, 2020CPR (India)
Everyday politics and citizenship has enabled local, context-specific solutions to emerge.
COVID-19 and the Right to Housing in Delhi
- June 26, 2020CPR (India)
State and government responses to employment, hunger and housing crises that befell vulnerable groups during lockdown.
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Why are India’s migrant workers walking home?
- April 2, 2020CPR (India)
How is the migrant worker crisis unfolding across the country?
Migrant workers distrust a state that does not take them into account
- March 31, 2020CPR (India)
Field studies have consistently claimed short-term labour mobility in India was significant.
Firefighting the pandemic is inadvertently teaching India how to govern migration
- April 7, 2020CPR (India)
The emergence of previously unseen migrants has shone a light on mobility questions that the state has shied away from.
State-society Interactions and Bordering Practices in Gurugram’s Pandemic Response
- November 28, 2020CPR (India)
This article uses the conceptualisation of boundaries and borders to reflect on the role of local state and civil society actors in Gurugram’s pandemic response.