Anirudh Soni
Urban Infrastructure Planner. Founder, Call for Climate.
I've spent the last five years trying to understand a specific and frustrating problem: India's cities are running out of water, flooding more frequently, and heating up — and the people responsible for managing this are working with inadequate tools, incomplete data, and frameworks that were designed for a different era.
I started Call for Climate because I believe that gap can be closed. Not all at once, and not by any single organisation — but incrementally, project by project, tool by tool, conversation by conversation.
I'm an urban planner by training, a water specialist by practice, and someone who finds genuine satisfaction in the space between technical knowledge and governance reality — where things either translate into action or they don't.
This page is where I document what I'm learning along the way.
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From the Field
Experience
Background
| Period | Role | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 – Present | Research Associate, Water & Environment Vertical | National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi |
| 2020 – 2022 | Co-Founder | WDrop — Urban Water Management SaaS, Ahmedabad |
| 2019 | Voluntary Researcher | UN-Habitat, New Delhi |
| 2017 | Internship Trainee | HPPCL — ADB-funded Hydropower Project, Himachal Pradesh |
| 2020 | M.Plan, Urban Infrastructure | CEPT University, Ahmedabad |
| 2018 – 2019 | Student Exchange, Heritage Responsive Cities | Southeast University, Nanjing, China |
| 2018 | B.E., Civil Engineering | DAV University, Jalandhar |