Towards Sustainable Cities
Panel Discussion at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences
EMBARQ India’s Director Madhav Pai spoke at a panel discussion on “Towards Sustainable Cities” organized by The School of Habitat Studies of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, on 20th December 2011.
Mumbai has 120,000 auto-rickshaws used by a large percentage of the city’s population. Reforms in the auto-rickshaw sector will go a long way in improving Mumbai’s integrated urban public transport system.
Vatsala works as a maid in Mumbai, India. Like many of the public in Mumbai—and cities throughout India—she relies on auto-rickshaws to meet her demanding schedule and transportation needs. EMBARQ is working in India to improve the service to benefit the drivers, passengers and owners.
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Address: Godrej and Boyce Premises Gaswork Lane, Lalbaug Parel Mumbai 400012 India Tel: +91 22 24713565 Fax: +91 22 24713591 www.embarqindia.orgThe EMBARQ India team consists of professionals with training in a diversity of academic fields and areas of specialization. In addition to the in-house team, we also have the support of technical experts and policy advisors from the World Resources Institute and the EMBARQ Network which enables us to understand, analyze and recommend solutions to projects from multiple perspectives.
Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the financial capital of India and one of the most crowded urban areas in the world, with a population of nearly 19 million people. According to one United Nations estimate, Mumbai will become the second largest city in the world after Tokyo by 2025.