In this paper, 'Climate Change: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development', the Author examines the various aspects of climate change and Delhi Metro's comparative advantage in being able to address them. He brings out that if left unabated, climate change would most certainly reverse the hard-earned development gains; and the poorest were likely to suffer the earliest and the most.
A revolution on a railway track. It's that straightforward. Engineering a success story for urban India's daily traffic battles is simple. The answer has already presented itself in the Capital through a mass rapid transit system built by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). It's a blueprint that has to be implemented in the rest of the country.
For many years, India lagged behind the rest of the world in the field of urban public transport. This changed with the formation of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC) in 1995, with the mandate to build a Metro system in the Indian capital New Delhi. The project has provided significant environmental and social benefits to the city.
