Distinguished Fellow at Research and Information System for Developing Countries, he chairs the Standing Committee for the National Survey for the Swatch Bharat Mission at the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He has chaired Committees on Housing Start up Index at RBI and Committee to Estimate Shortage of Affordable Housing, and Post Sachar Evaluation Committee, Government of India. He has been Regional Advisor on Poverty at UN, Professor and Dean at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a member of National Statistical Commission Government of India. Professor Kundu was Director at the National Institute of Urban Affairs, Indian Council of Social Science research and Gujarat Institute of Development Research.