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Indranil De is Associate Professor in Social Sciences and Economics in Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). He holds a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest are institutional economics, political economy, public policy, basic service delivery, housing and gender. He has recently published a book "Social Norms, Gender and Collective Behaviour: Development Paradigms in India" with Palgrave Macmillan. He has published several research articles in reputed journals including Housing studies, Development Policy Review, Water Policy, Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, International Journal of Social Economics and Economic and Political Weekly. He is Editor of International Journal of Rural Management. He has worked with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Science and Technology - Government of India, Government of West Bengal and National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) as a researcher or consultant. He was also Member of Expert Committee, National CSR Award 2018 and 2019, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

Soumyadip Chattopadhyay teaches at the Department of Economics and Politics, Visva Bharati University. He holds a PhD from University of Calcutta. He was associated with Graduate School of Geography Clark University as a C V Raman Fellow and Department of Urban Studies and Planning University of Sheffield as a Commonwealth Academic Fellow. His research interests lie in the field of development studies and more specifically focuses on urban finance, urban inequality and ongoing transformations in urban governance in Indian cities. His research works have been published in the Progress in Development Studies, Development in Practice, Environment and Urbanization ASIA, Journal of Infrastructure Development, South Asian Survey, Economic and Political Weekly,