U.B. Singh, Ph.D. in Human Resource Development. He got a fellowship under Colombo Plan at the University College of London. He has undertaken a number of research studies on various facets of public administration in general and in rural and urban administration in particular. He has organized a series of executive development programmes for the senior and middle level officials engaged in urban government in the states of U.P., M.P., Bihar and Orissa; and also Co-ordinated training and monitoring workshops under DFID (UK) and supported Indore Habitat Improvement Project. He is member of a number of professional associations and Institutions including All India Association of Public Administration, Indian Association of Political Science, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi; a prolific writer in the urban field, he had contributed a large number of papers to various International and National Seminars and has more than fifty papers/articles published in reputed journals.