In this guide to integrated urban flood risk management for the 21st Century World Bank, provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods,

While Indian cities have grown manifold in the past several decades, and there is expectation that the pace of urbanization would accelerate in the future, problems of water supply, sewage disposal, municipal wastes, power supply, open landscaped spaces, air pollution, and public transport, have assumed stark proportions in many urban areas.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy entrusted ADaRSH with the formulation and development of guidelines and benchmarks for Large Developments including educational institute campuses, housing societies and townships, residential campuses, etc.