Rockefeller Foundation's 100 RC to help 4 Indian cities combat challenges

US-based Rockefeller Foundation-backed 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) has chosen four cities from India -- Japiur, Surat, Pune and Chennai -- to help them deal with social and economic challenges like waste management, availability of water, floods etc, facing them.

Under the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) initiative, 100 cities have been selected from all over the world. The initiative is aimed at helping these cities become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century, said Amit Prothi, Head of India National Strategy 100RC.

The cities on the list include Kyoto of Japan, Barcelona of Spain, Belfast of the UK and so on. From India, there are Chennai, Pune, Surat and Jaipur, he said.

Explaining the plan, Director of National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) Jagan Shah said, "Every city is facing or has already faced some or the other issue. Like Jaipur faces issue of high temperature. Chennai has seen floods. There are many places where population is an issue and at some places, infrastructure is an issue."