City And Town Planner

Hello!
The work profile of town planner is really hectic. Being the town planning officer you have to work in a very diversified area. Your major work profile will be of developing the park in a sustainable way. Redesigning the street structures, creating energy efficient and affordable homes (generally by using the solar power). Timely submission of the status reports to higher management to seek guidance and hearing concern. Nowadays, the challenges are occurring in this field because of lack of knowledge and lack of sufficient work experience in this sector. You need to have some sort of skills in order to overcome the regular minor challenges of town planning profession. You should have good report writing skills and have good analysis power of big complex data. You should have good negotiable skills. Having a good knowledge of the relevant software for cost-effectiveness. Hope this helps. Upvote the answer if you feel satisfied. Good luck.

Working area and job opportunities for planners:
1) Government Sector: Planners are employed by Development Authorities for making Master Plans, Land Use Plans and Development Plans. Apart from Development Authorities there is Town and Country Planning Department known as TCP department under state government. It can be a part of development authority, municipality or a separate division in itself. You might have heard of Planning Commission. Now NITI Aayog which made policies for development through 5 year plans, they also recruited planners. In addition to this municipal corporation also employ planners.
2) Private Sector: In private sector real estate companies hire planners for determining potential land for growth, analyzing future prospects and land speculation purpose. While in Planning you will be dealing with land all the time. B.Planning will be more or less dealing with assigning land for activities like commercial areas, industries, residential areas. Working in MNCs like Feedback Infra, JLL, E&Y and in smaller companies and consultancies is another option.