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The BRICS nations connected Friday (June 12, 2026) adopted a declaration connected inclusive, resilient and people-centred municipality development.
The Ministerial declaration adopted connected the concluding time of the 13th BRICS Urbanisation Forum successful the nationalist capital, highlights cardinal priorities shared by subordinate nations and reaffirms committedness to advancing people-centred municipality development.
It emphasises the value of creating inclusive, sustainable, resilient and liveable cities that guarantee equitable entree to municipality services, peculiarly for marginalised groups, according to an authoritative connection of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Hosted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs nether India’s BRICS chairship successful 2026, the two-day forum brought unneurotic Ministers, elder authorities officials and municipality practitioners from BRICS subordinate nations to deliberate connected the theme, ‘Cities for People: BRICS Cooperation for Inclusive and Resilient Urban Futures’.
The forum besides presented a compilation of bully practices from BRICS nations, titled ‘Cities for People: Urban Stories from BRICS Nations’.
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs M.L. Khattar, successful his valedictory address, emphasised the worth of the forum arsenic a level for shared learning and applicable practice among BRICS subordinate nations.
He called for the discussions held successful New Delhi to beryllium carried guardant done sustained organization engagement, speech among cities and continued practice beyond India’s chairship.
For continued cooperation, the subordinate countries welcomed India’s connection for the constitution of the ‘BRICS Urban Research and Knowledge Network’, for applied municipality research, cognition sharing, and peer-to-peer learning.
The Network has been designed arsenic a chairship-led, institutionally connected level to supply a applicable and sustained mechanics for municipality practice wrong BRICS. It volition enactment systematic knowledge-sharing and communal learning, portion helping span the spread betwixt argumentation and implementation done the speech of applicable solutions, city-level experiences and operational lessons.
Operating done a virtual, low-cost and flexible model, the Network volition beryllium coordinated each twelvemonth by the pb instauration of the BRICS seat country, with activities and outputs handed implicit to the adjacent chairship, a elder authoritative said.
