Mumbai's P/North Ward is a climate paradox. On a map, it looks green, boasting significant cover from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park to the east and vital mangroves to the west. Yet, the reality on the ground for its nearly one million residents is one of scorching heat. The surfaces people walk and live on have heated dramatically, with land surface temperatures soaring by over 5°C in much of this ward between 2015 and 2024. The reason is a familiar story of urban expansion: rapid, unplanned growth has replaced cooling ecosystems with a dense fabric of concrete, tin, and asphalt,…
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Aniket Shevade is a public policy analyst with a focus on emerging technologies, particularly biotech, blockchain, and AI. After graduating from IIT Madras, he previously worked as a political consultant, where he learnt to apply GIS tools to analyse the socio-economic and political dynamics of constituencies. He has interned with the Bharti Institute of Public Policy of the Indian School of Business, the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration and the Takshashila Institution. Aniket’s core interest lies in leveraging data and digital infrastructure to solve public problems at scale.