U.N. Habitat shuts office

The United Nations Habitat’s Chennai office, which played a key role in shaping policy issues relating to urban development and shelter management for over 20 years, will be shut down.

Restructuring

The restructuring of United Nations’ project offices in India is said to be the reason.

M.G. Devasahayam, former bureaucrat, said that at a time when they expected the Chennai office to be strengthened as a good number of cities selected under the Smart City project were in south India, the move to shut it down was a blow to cooperative federalism.