New Delhi, June 12 -- The BRICS member nations have accepted a proposal by India to establish a knowledge-sharing forum on urbanization, said Union housing and urban affairs minister Manohar Lal in New Delhi on Friday.

Speaking at the conclusion of the BRICS Urbanisation Forum 2026, Manohar Lal said this network-BRICS Urban Research and Knowledge Network-will be a chair-led institutionally connected knowledge mechanism for research and collaboration between member nations.

The 13th forum was held under India's BRICS chairship, and the knowledge-sharing network was one of the key outcomes of the summit underlined in the Urban Ministerial Declaration, according to a statement by the housing ministry.

The declaration highlighted the prior...