One of the major events organized by the Ministry of Urban Development is the Urban Mobility Conference held in New Delhi in the first week of December each year. The theme of the latest conference held on 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2010 at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi was “Sustainable Urban Transport: Accessibility and Inclusive Cities”.
If you ask someone living in one of our medium or large cities to name the most serious civic problem faced by his city, he will more likely than not say it is the growing problem of traffic.
Sujit Patwardhan is the founder member and Trustee of Parisar, an NGO established in 1987 in Pune, with the objective of Environmental awareness, Education and Action. He is an environmental activist working in the area of Sustainable Urban Transport. He has contributed to Parisar