The goal of PUKAR is to create a world class hub of knowledge, debate and innovation about cities and globalisation. It takes Mumbai as its conceptual base and laboratory for cross-disciplinary research projects which can create new urban knowledge, thus enhancing circulation of ideas and concepts between the local and the global.
PUKAR aims to democratise research and broaden access to knowledge among disenfranchised or weakly institutionalised groups and to create a space from which their non traditional and non expert knowledge can contribute to local, national and global debates about their own futures. It promotes research as a right for everyone inside and outside of the formal educational system.