25th February 2013 | Gurgaon: EMBARQ India organised a workshop on planning for non-motorised transport in Gurgaon on February 25, 2013 at Epicenter Gurgaon. The workshop was attended by over 40 participants from various stakeholder groups.

Photo (L-R): Krishan Dhawan, CEO, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation; Jamshyd N.Godrej, Chairman, Shakti Board of Directors; Anil Baijal, Ex-Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; Charlotte Pera, CEO, ClimateWorks Foundation; Amit Bhatt, Strategy Head - Urban Transport, EMBARQ India

8th – 9th January 2013 | New Delhi: EMBARQ India conducted a workshop held over two days on ‘Institutional Development for Urban Transport in India’, on 8th and 9th January 2013 in New Delhi. The workshop was aimed at testing and validating training modules developed by EMBARQ India on urban transport institutions.

On 7th November 2012, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, inaugurated the Capitol Complex building of Naya Raipur, the new green field city in the state of Chhattisgarh. Situated 7km from Raipur city, Naya Raipur is being developed as a sustainable city, is expected to be home to over 500,000 people by 2031, and will serve as the administrative capital of the state.

3rd – 5th October 2012, New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and UN-Habitat organised a three-day workshop titled ‘Mobility for Poor: Improving Informal Transport’ in New Delhi from October 3rd to 5th, 2012.

30th - 31st August 2012 | Visakhapatnam: Representatives from over 20 city bus transport agencies, private operators, and other stakeholders, including organisations in Indore, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Rajkot and Naya Raipur attended a two-day training workshop conducted by EMBARQ India with support from the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC), in

The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), in collaboration with the World Bank conducted a workshop on Modernising City Bus Services on 16th June 2012 in New Delhi.

Urban transport systems must be designed so that all road users are safe and healthy. Photo by Mani Babbar.

Road traffic crashes are among the leading causes of death and disability in Indian cities, but the trend can be reversed through sustainable transport and planning that prioritizes people, not vehicles, concluded a group of public health and transport experts at today’s “Sustainable Transport Saves Lives” roundtable discussion.

The Delhi bus rapid transit (BRT) system has succeeded in meeting some of its key objectives, though it is still a work in progress, according to EMBARQ's senior transport experts Dario Hidalgo and Madhav Pai.