Saleha Sapra

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Saleha Sapra is an urban practitioner and development professional who co-founded City Sabha, a nonprofit born out of the need to foreground prevalent urban inequalities. Their work engages marginalised communities and urban local bodies through research, action, advocacy, and education to enable active citizenry and accountable governance. She has 10 years of experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring urban planning and development programmes that integrate gender, governance, mobility, climate, and health. Saleha has a master’s degree in urbanisation and development from the London School of Economics.


Areas of expertise

Urban policy, governance, livelihoods, participatory planning


Articles by Saleha Sapra


notices pinned to a green notice board--urban villages

June 4, 2026
Villagers’ Right to the City: Notes from a jan sunvayi in Naraina
In June 2025, government officials reached Delhi’s Naraina Village for an ‘unprecedented’ public hearing. What unfolded revealed decades of neglect, but also new forms of resistance. 
Bustling Delhi Road with Azadpur Flyover--Delhi

January 31, 2025
Yeh Dilli maange more
As Delhi gets ready to vote, a citizen-led charter calls for systemic solutions—sustainable mobility, safer streets, and inclusive public spaces—for a better quality of life.
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