Real Estate Markets and Management 3 VF-Prof. Anil Sood ? & Amit Kumar ?

Financial Modelling / Simulation  3 VF-Prof. Ravi Subramanian

Qualitative Research Methods

Policy Analysis and Evaluation

Spatial Justice and Inclusive Strategies

Qualitative Research in Management (QRM)

 

1. Course Description

Though quantitative research is more widely used in many fields/ disciplines, there are
substantial limitations of these approaches in providing explanation and process
understanding, as well as in explicating complex human relationships in fast revolutionizing
socio-economic landscape. Qualitative research based on interpretivist approaches is
therefore increasingly being used and attracting greater adherents. Two important shifts in the
last two decades has also turned the spotlight on such approaches as being more supportive of
development – a turn away from the exclusively economistic understanding of development
and the increasing respect for subjectivities and identities. However, it has added to the
complexities hence, making problem identification, problem solving and evaluation more
challenging. It is therefore necessary for good development managers to be familiar with the
methods tools & techniques of qualitative enquiry- which are epistemologically broad-based
and believe in multiple realities and subjectivities. This course will provide an exposure to a
range of qualitative approaches, knowledge of the specific methods that are more widely
used, and skills for their application to questions of the student’s choice.

2. Student Learning Outcomes 

 Be able to understand the unique characteristics of qualitative & interpretive

approaches and select the right approach and methods for specific research questions/
projects, 
 Be able to apply the selected approaches and methods, particularly those which are
most widely applied (eg., case studies) and conceptualize research design. 
  Be able to collect qualitative data using various data collection procedures and
transcribe them appropriately.
 Be able to analyze data and come out with the clear thematic analysis.
 Be able to synthesize the results and report it clearly and concisely.
 Be able to understand the standards & frames for reliability and validity in qualitative
enquiry and use them appropriately.

 3. Pedagogy  

While a proportion of the course will be taught through classroom lectures, the
application of the methods discussed will be guided through in-class exercises
including role plays and impromptu presentations, and a project divided into short
assignments outside the class. The quick in-class exercises are designed for guided
skill development and confidence for use of the data collection and analysis methods.
Some of these will be linked to the out-of-class assignments. Both class exercises and
assignments will be the parallel learning experiences alongside the lectures.
  

Name of Course: FINANCIAL MODELLING

Term, AY, Credits
Faculty Name(s): RAVI SUBRAMANIAN/GAYATHRI SUBRAMANYAM + Sector experts

1.Course Objectives

The course will try and ensure that the learner will be able to design, structure and develop a
basic financial model in MS Excel for a given end-user based on their requirements, available
inputs and defined outputs

2. Course Description/ Content 

o A guided approach to building a robust financial model in Excel

o Unique approach for certain End-user /Sectors 
o Building in Sensitivity / Simulation for running various Scenarios
o Auditing and Review of Own and Third-Party Financial Models
o User Interface/ Visualisation of Key Outputs
o Data Book /Manual /Documentation
 3. Learning Outcomes

o Familiarity with MS Excel

o Ability to independently build financial models

o Ability to whet, review, audit financial models

o Ability to understand and develop customised models for end-users in different

sectors

o Readings - Please include name of textbook or note that there will be a course
reader – in that case please provide the full list of readings and cases at the end of
this document, and send one copy of the full set to the Program Office for
distribution.

4. Suggested Readings:

 Alastair L.Day – “Mastering Financial Modelling” (Pearson Education) –

Part A only

 FAST Standard – Soft copy will be provided during this session

5. Further material will be suggested at the beginning of the course

 
 6. Session Plan – Please list by the number of sessions as required by the assigned credits
(eg, 20 sessions for 3 credits). For Workshops/ Studios please refer to MoP which has the
equivalence of credits and class hours and list accordingly.

Topics with rough Content/ Topic

sessions
1 Familiarise with MS Excel functionalities from Financial Modeller’s
perspective

2 Familiarise with MS Excel functionalities from Financial Modeller’s

perspective
3 Familiarise with MS Excel functionalities from Financial Modeller’s
perspective
4 Overview of Financial Modelling, Good modelling practices
5 Building Blocks of Financial Model – Inputs, Calculations & Outputs
6 Building Blocks of Financial Model – Error trapping and tracing
7 Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis
8 Model documentation, Data Assumptions Book
9 User Interface, Use of charts and some other useful features
10 Model Review – Software, Audit Process for Third Party
11 Financial Models – From an Investor Relations perspective

12 Financial Models – From Rating Agency, Lender perspective

13 Sector related – Real Estate Financial Modelling 1

14 Sector related – Real Estate Financial Modelling 2

15 Sector related – Mass Transit projects

16 Sector related – Solid Waste management projects

17 Sector related – Renewable Energy

18 Sector related – Toll Road/Airport Projects

19 Sector related – Water Projects

20 Overall recap and summarisation of approach

 7. Evaluation (Indicative)– give details such as break-up of total marks across quizzes/
assignments/ midterm/ end-term etc. Please note you must have at least 3 segments of
evaluation for a 3 credit course, including an end-term with not less than 30% weightage.

2 Assignments –  2* 10 = 20 marks
1 Mid term - 20 marks
Sample sector models (2) – 15 marks each, totalling 30 marks
1 End Term - Financial Modelling Project – 30 marks

8. Assignments/ Submissions – Specify the assignments, submission formats, who they

should submit to, hard copy/ electronic, etc.- 

The mid and end term projects to be submitted as Excel Sheets to the Faculty. Assignments
will be given as workbooks with answers to be submitted in the same workbooks

9. Academic Integrity/ Class Participation/ Other house rules which will be applied…

Timely attendance needed. Faculty has the option to give marks for active class
participation.
 MBA-UMG

BATCH 2016 - 2018, Term IV

Course Name: Spatial Justice and Inclusive Strategies

Credits 03
Faculty Name Faculty to be decided
Program MBA – UMG
Academic Year and Term 2017 – 2018 and Term IV

1. Course Description

The objective of the course is to sensitize students about the interrelationship between urban
space and social inclusivity. Cities today face unprecedented challenges like migration, rapid
urbanization, growing inequality and rising social tensions. This course explores the linkages
between social policy and urban planning, management and governance mechanism.

Course Contents

Spatial Justice: Concept and theory of rights based approaches the contribution of spatial
policies to social goals such as reducing inequality, preventing concentrated poverty, and
social inclusion; Public spaces and land use; Gated neighborhoods and exclusivity; Concept
of public domain and access; Exclusions based on class, gender, religion, ethnicity;
Marginalization of social groups in the city; role of citizen charter and proactive role of urban
local bodies, Urbanism and spatial Justice; Role of governance as a tool to facilitate spatial
justice; Case studies on spatial justice and inclusive Urban strategies encompassing different
verticals such as shelter, livelihood, mobility, leisure etc.

2. Student Learning Outcomes

 
After the course is over student would be able to know and Learn –

•         Define, describe and debate key theories of spatial justice, including those relating to public
space, gentrification and urban inclusivity.

•         Recognize the ways in which justice remains a central concern within the urban environment
and how the operation of justice continues to shape urban development

•         Examine a set of varied urban processes and problems gentrification, place-making, housing,
gender, sexuality, race) from a special justice perspective

•         Understand the impact of housing, urban regeneration and transport policies on social
goals spatial policies about women, children, and the elderly; and citizen influence on
spatial planning.

3. Required Text Books and Reading Material

         Soja, Edward. "The city and spatial justice." Spatial Justice 1.1 (2009)
         Banerjee-Guha, Swapna (Ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession, Sage Publications,2010
         Harvey, David. Rebel cities: From the right to the city to the urban revolution. Verso
Books, 2012.
         Burdett, Ricky and Deyan Sudjic (2011), Living in the Endless City, Phaidon Press,
London
         Roy, A., & AlSayyad, N. (Eds.). (2004). Urban informality: Transnational perspectives
fom the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

4. Tentative Session Plan

Session
Topics Reading/case list
Number
1 to 3 Spatial Justice: Concept and theory  
4 to 5 Public spaces and land use  
6 Gated neighborhoods and exclusivity  
7 to 9 Concept of public domain and access  
Exclusions based on class, gender, religion, ethnicity;  
10 to 12
Marginalization of social groups in the city
The role of citizen charter and proactive role of urban  
13 to 15 local bodies, Urbanism and spatial Justice; Role of
governance as a tool to facilitate spatial justice
Case studies on spatial justice and inclusive Urban  
16 to 18 strategies encompassing different verticals such as
shelter, livelihood, mobility, leisure etc.
19, 20 Seminar Presentation  
 

5. Evaluation

Quizzes: 15% weightage

Project Work / Mid-Term : 20 % weightage

Assignments: 35 % weightage

End Term: 30 % weightage

6. Academic Integrity:

As per our MOP.

Real Estate Management ( Prof. Anil Sood)

 Real Estate Value Chain: Impact on Quality of Life

and Cost of Living 

 Real Estate: A Macro and Strategic View 

 Determinants of Demand and Prices: Housing

Market  

 Determinants of Demand and Prices: Non-Housing

Market 

 Cost and Productivity in Real Estate Value Chain 

  Financing and Risk Management (2 Sessions)

Xavier University, Bhubaneswar

School of Human Settlement 
Immersion Course on Land and Property Rights System | Feb 25-27, 2021; Apr 9-10, 2021
Instructor : Pranab R Choudhury, NRMC Center for Land Governance, Bhubaneswar 

 Pedagogy will be a mix of presentation (both by faculty and students), caselet analysis; more in
interactive mode; reading materials/links will be provided in advance and students are expected
to come prepared
 Students will be teamed into 4(2) groups to organize the home works, group works and make
presentations (See Table 2)

Table 1 : Teaching Plan

Clas Topic Outline Pedagogy Literature/ Expectation 

s Reading
1 Landing on Land in History: 1. Presentation 4. Bollywoo Understandin
LAND: Land Mahabharat, on Historical, d Movie  g the
& Arthashastra, connection and 4. The importance
Developme Medieval, Moghul, geographic Unfixed of land &
nt, Land Colonial period diversity- 15 min State of property
Governance + Discussion 15 Unfixed rights in
: History & Land Geographies: min Land - Indian
Geography, Forest, Rural, Tribal, 2. Land & Nikita context;
Understandi Urban Development:  Sud implications
ng Land in (video on 4. Influence for
India Land & Poromoboke) & of land Sustainable
Development:  Presentation - tenure and just
Poverty alleviation, 15 min interven development;
Urban Dev, 3. Team tions on multi-
Industrial Dev, Food Presentations – human dimensionalit
Security, Well- Bollywood clips 4. well- y of land
being,  (4 clips) 30 min; being
Land as asset and Discussion -  15 and
wealth min environ
mental
Multidimensionality outcome
of Land: economics, s:
politics, society and Multiple
culture  Author
4. Women's
land
 rights as
a
pathway
to
poverty
reductio
n:
Framewo
rk and
4. review of
available
evidence
: Ruth M
Dick
4. Land and
SDG –
Land
Portal
4. India
Country
Portfolio on
Land –
Pranab
Choudhury
2 Land Legal Pluralism 1. Introductory 1. Legal Understandin
Tenure and around land presentation & Pluralism in g of legal
access to Land Tenure discussion – 30 India : An pluralism,
land  Concept: min + 15 min Introduction Land tenures
Continuum/bundle 2. Team 2. Legal and how is
Access to land: Presentation on Pluralism & land accessed
Landlessness, Ginni land access  ( 4 Urban
Coefficient ppt) - 30 min  Tenure in
Women Land rights, 3. Discussion – India
Dalits, Forest 15 min 3. FAO :
Rights, Slums What is land
Informalities Tenure 
around  4. State of
Land Report,
2018
5. Wealth
Inequality
Class & Caste
India : 
6. Land
ownership in
rural India : 
7. Women
Land Rights
in India 
3 Land and Land Governance in 1. Presentation  1. India, Understandin
Property in India & Discussion – Land and g of land laws
Constitution Land in Constitution 30 + 15 min land and basic
, Land laws (state, central and 2. Land laws governance- land legal
 Concurrent list); presentation (4 Land Portal literacy 
Land Reform ppt) – 30 min 2. Separati
Amendments to Discussion  + 15 on of powers
Rights to Property, discussion and the
Decentralization – erosion of
PESA, Article 43 (G) the ‘right to
Land Laws : Central property’ in
laws- Forest Rights India- Jaivir
Act, Inheritance Singh
Laws, Acquisition 3. Schedule
laws;  State Laws: Area laws :
Reform, Protection, Namita Wahi
S&S, Govt land 4. Inheritan
ce Laws –
Ashok
Circar/Oxfam
5. Land
Governance
Assessment
Framework
Odisha
Report
6. Forest
Rights Act
Enactment &
Implementati
on : Kundan
Kumar
4 Land Land administration 1. Land Admin 1. Land Understandin
Administra as a concept Experience  Governance g land
tion Land institutions in Team Assessment administratio
India : Land presentation (4 Framework n, Institution,
Revenue ppt) – 30 min + Odisha Technology;
Departments- Land Discussion  15 Report Reform
use Departments,  discussion   2. LGAF processes &
Judiciary 2. Presentation  India logics
Evolution of Land & Discussion – Synthesis
Administration:  30 + 15 min Report
Colonial and post- 3. Building
independent third
Land Admin generation
Reforms- land tools:
Formalization- FRA, 4. Its4land,
SVAMITVA, OLRSD smart
Land Technologies sketchmaps,
UAVs,
automatic
feature
extraction,
and the
geocloud
5. Decentra
lization as a
Strategy to
 Scale FFPLA:
An Indian
Perspective –
Serene Ho et
al
5 Land Policy Post-independence 1. Presentation  1. In 12 Knowledge of
Trajectory Land Reform & Discussion – Years, 11 land policy
(Post Decentralisation of 60 + 30 min States trajectories in
independen Land reform  2. Class Changed India and the
t reforms) Post-liberalization Exercise : Land Ceiling rationale
reforms – Land Correlating to Laws In behind it 
Records, land for different Favour Of
industry/urban reforms by Industry
21 Century
st
students and Over Farmers
Reforms – Women how are they 2. What
land rights, Forest affected by will the
Right, Land them  liberalised
Acquisition, Land farmland
Leasing, Urban Land market in
& Housing, Rural Karnataka
Homestead land   mean?
3. Policy
Shifts in Land
Records
Management 
4. Women’
s Inheritance
Rights and
Intergenerati
onal
Transmission
of Resources
in India –
Klaus 
5. Forest
Governance:
From Co-
option and
Conflict to
Multilayered
Governance?
- Sharad Lele
6. NITI
Aayog Model
Land Leasing
Act- Dr
Haque
7. LARR,
2013
6 Land What is Land 1. Student 1. Land Understandin
Records Record in India Presentations  & Records & g of land
Why it is Discussion – 20 Titling in records and
important? + 10 min India : Suhag their
Pre-independence 2. Presentation & Mishra,  importance,
 land records – 30 min  2. The challenges
management 3. Case 1 : record of and way
Post-Independence DILRMP/N-LRSI - rights in ahead
Post- 15 min (10 + 5) British India-
Liberalization 4. Case 2: Dietmar
:NLRMP. DILRMP SVAMITVA - - 15 Rothermund
SVAMITVA, OLRSD min (10 + 5) 3. NCAER
& Drones   -Land Record
Block Chain in Land Service Index
Record 4. SVAMITV
Conclusive Titling A Guideline
5. Guarante
eing Title to
Land
7 Land & Development and 1. Presentation 1. How Understandin
Investment Displacements, s  – 30 min Many People g of tensions
1894 Act : Eminent 2. Student Will We and options
Domain Presentation– Continue to as land is
Present legal & 40 min + 20 min Displace In allocated for
Institutional the Name of industrializati
Framework : LARR, Development on/
Land Bank, SEZ, ? urbanization/
Land Pooling 2. Land Infra
Land Conflicts Acquisition in
Responsible India: A
Investment Review of
Frameworks – Supreme
Global & Indian Court Cases
from 1950 to
2016
3. Land
Acquisition,
Rehabilitatio
n and
Resettlement
: Law, Politics
and the
Elusive
Search for
Balance
4. Land
disputes and
stalled
investment
in India
5. Land
Conflicts in
India
6. Govt
Targets land
disputes that
halts
investment
 in India
7. Land
banks to help
economy
post
lockdown
could
threaten
poor
communities
8. Land
pooling
schemes: A
viable
alternative to
land
acquisition
9. Responsi
ble land
investment
8 Urban Land Urban land: Tenure, 1. Presentation 1. UN Understandin
and housing Administration, s  – 30 min Habitat Land g of land
Informality 2. Student Tenure issues around
Urban planning and Presentation– Security for urbanisation,
regulation 40 min + 20 min  all housing and
Housing for All 2. The slums
Slum Upgradation economic
Discourse impact of
OLRSD land and
urban
planning
regulations in
India
3. The
credibility of
slums:
Informal
housing and
urban
governance
in India
4. Urban
Informality
and Planning:
5. Challeng
es to
Mainstreami
ng Resilience
6. in Indian
Cities 
7. ODISHA:
LAND RIGHTS
TO SLUM
 DWELLERS
Observations
on detailed
work flow
process maps
Social
Innovation as
a Disruptor
of Tenure –
Recognising
Land Rights
of Slum
Dwellers in
Odisha, India 
8. Giving
voice to the
slum
dwellers –
understandin
g the
implications
of the
implementati
on of the
land rights
act in Odisha
state, India 
9 Land Land Information 1. Presentation  1. SDG
information and Data in India: & Discussion – Reporting –
and Data Status and Issues 40 + 20 min NITI,
Land Open Data, 2. Class UNSTAT,
digital & Geo-spatial Exercise : Data Land Portal,
Monitoring & SDG Sources and Donor
Reporting  diversities Working
Visibility, Ethics, 1. 10 Group,
Privacy min X 2 Ministry of
+ 10 Statistics &
min Program
discussi Implementati
on on
2. Strength
ening GIS
standards to
improve
monitoring
of land
indicators for
SDGs: Using
India as a use
case 
3. WLR
Paper and
SDG India
4. State of
 Land Report,
India
5. Why We
Don't Know
How Much
Land Women
Own
10 Land & Surveying  to Settle 1. Presentation  1. Land
Technology Land- Old ways & Discussion – administratio
Modern/Hitech 40 + 20 min n and
Surveys – ETS, 2. Class cadastral
Satellite Imageries, Exercise : trends — a
Aerial Photography, Technology & framework
Drones, Mobile Society for re-
mapping, HRSI, 10 min X 2 + 10 engineering
Cadastral min discussion 2. Land
extractions, CORS, tenure
AI/ML administratio
Land Admin Tech : n and GIS:
Block Chain trends and
Technology & challenges
Society: Power, 3. Building
Gender, Third
Technology/Digital Generation
Divide Land
Cases of DILRMP, Tools:Its4lan
SVAMITVA, OLRSD, d, Smart
UPILP Sketchmaps,
UAVs,
Automatic
Feature
Extraction,
and The
Geocloud
4.  An
Introduction
to Critical
Cartography
5. Digital
territories:
Google maps
as a political
technique in
the re-
making of
urban
informality
6. In-
Tensions to
Infrastructur
e:
Developing
Digital
 Property
Databases in
Urban
Karnataka,
India
7. The
territorializa
tion of
property in
land: space,
power and
practice
8. Recogniti
on through
reconnaissan
ce? Using
drones for
counter-
mapping in
Indonesia
11 Land and Land tenure and 1. Presentation  1. Rights-
Climate Rights based & Discussion – Based
Change Conservation 40 + 20 min Conservation
Community and 2. Climate : The path to
Carbon Change & Land preserving
Women Land Rights Tenure : Earth’s
& Climate change Vulnerability & biological
Slum Tenure & Adapatation and cultural
Climate Change 10 min X 2 + 10 diversity
min discussion 2. A Global
Baseline of
Carbon
Storage in
Collective
Lands
3. Climate
Change and
Land Tenure
4. Climate
change and
land tenure:
The
implications
of climate
change for
land tenure
and land
policy
5. Land
tenure and
urban
climate
resilience in
the South
 Pacific
6. Land
Tenure and
Climate
Change
Governance
12 Land COVID19 Pandemic 1. Presentation  1. Covid-19
Tenure & & land tenure & Discussion – Crisis,
Pandemic linkages 40 + 20 min Pandemic
Resilience COVID19 and 2. Pandemic & Resilience
implications on Land Tenure : and Linkages
Urban Poor from a Vulnerability & to Land: An
tenure perspective Adaptation Exposition
COVID19 and 10 min X 2 + 10 2. Towards
implications on min discussion a political
women from a economy of
tenure perspective the COVID-19
crisis:
Reflections
on an agenda
for research
and action
3. COVID-
19 and
Slums: A
Pandemic
Highlights
Gaps in
Knowledge
About Urban
Poverty
4. Reviving
the post
Covid-19
Indian
Economy and
the Twin
Challenges of
Informal
Workers and
Slums
5. Are
slums more
vulnerable to
the COVID-19
pandemic:
Evidence
from
Mumbai
6. Habitat
for Humanity
Pre Lock
down Survey
of Migrants
 in
Maharashtra
7. How
many casual
workers in
the cities
have sought
to go home?
8.  Women’
s Land Rights
and COVID-
19
9. How
COVID-19
puts
women’s
housing,
land, and
property
rights at risk
13 The urban Urban land & 1. Presentation  1. Five
land & housing issues, & Discussion – major
housing supply & demand, 40 + 20 min challenges to
market: Multiple tenure 2. Urban Land land
Options options for the Market cases management
before the urban poor from Bangladesh in our
poor 10 min X 2 + 10 changing
min discussion world
2.  Working
with the
Market: a
New
Approach to
Reducing
Urban Slums
in India
3. Reformin
g Urban Land
Management
in Gujarat
4. Docume
ntation of
Pilot Project
Experience
on Secure
Tenure under
Urban
Partnership
for Poverty
Reduction
(UPPR)
project,
Bangladesh
Table 2 : Advanced Group Work to be done before the Course/Session

Session  Task Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4

Prepare video clips from Bollywood movie Present on
related to land and property rights – about 5 personal story
Session
Land-Life links  min each; suggested movies : Khosla Ka Ghosla, related to land
1  
Mother India, Do Bigha Zameen, Lagaan, Khud and property
Garz etc.  rights 
Land Tenure Security
Dalit
Session and Development; 2 Women Land Slum Dwellers’
Tribal Land Access Land
2   slides each – What, Access Land Access
Access
Why, Status, Issues
Land Reform Laws, Urban land laws, Right to Property,
Land laws Presentation
Session Registration and Transfer of Property laws, Inheritance laws,
– 2 Slides each (1 team
3 Decentralization land laws, Land encroachment laws, Tribal
– 1 law type)
Protection
Share & hypothesize
Session Land registration, Court Cases, Land Record, Survey &
land revenue services  
4   Settlement, Inheritance related/Mutation
Check digital land
records  (text and map)
from on line portal and
Session Any institution in
compare actual from Self or neighbour land record
6   Bhubaneswar
physical possession and
google earth/satellite
imagery
Caselet of Land Land Conflict : Successful LARR: Land Land Pooling;
Session
Acquisition, R & R for Posco / Ahmedabad Bank/ Amravati/
7 
Investment Vedanta/? Metro/? SEZ Delhi
LRC and
LEC and LRC : Land LRC and Jaga
Session OLRSD Process USHA  & access to
Tenure Mission
8 Learnings Drone Survey  formal
formalization Services
credit
Urban Housing Datasets:
Urban Land Datasets (Viz. NSSO,
Agency, Frequency,
SECC, Census etc.): Agency,
Session Urban Land & Housing Sampling, parameters
Frequency, Sampling, parameters
9 Datasets  reported, Metadata,
reported, Metadata, Conflicts,
Conflicts, Scope,
Scope, Limitations
Limitations
Geo-Spatial Technology and
Using Drone to Map Slums
Session Infrastructure and Urban
Technology & Society  - Scope, Innovations,
10 Development : Scope, Innovations,
Issues & Challenges
Issues & Challenges
Climate Change & Land
Session
Tenure : Vulnerability & Women Land Rights Urban Slums
11
Adaptation
Session Pandemics & Land Women Land Rights Urban Slums
 Tenure: : Vulnerability
12
& Adaptation
Urban Land & Housing Land Readjustment and
Resettlement in Mandartola,
Session Market :  case studies Housing Upgrading in
Gopalgong, Bangladesh (Reading
13 from UPPR Project Azam’s Settlement,
Material is in the Sl No 4)
Bangladesh Gopalgong, Bangladesh