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A joint initiative of the Centre for Science and Environment and Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam Venue: Conference Hall, Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam, Navyug Market, Ghaziabad Time: 10.30 am to 2.30 pm Date: December 28, 2012
List of participants
Bus, walk and cycle power India’s mobility. Yet rapid motorization is snuffing life out of cities. Can Delhi and other cities reinvent the dream of mobility to get out of this urban nightmare? This needs inventive thinking, action and confidence to break out of the arrogance of old ideas!
Footfalls: Obstacle Course to Livable Cities (.pdf) Choc-A-Block: Parking Measures to Address Mobility Crisis (.pdf) Avert the great guzzle: Fuel Economy Regulations: Setting the Principles Right (.pdf) Fuel adulteration report (.pdf)
Footfalls: Obstacle Course to Livable Cities Choc-A-Block: Parking Measures to Address Mobility Crisis Avert the great guzzle: Fuel Economy Regulations: Setting the Principles Right A report on the independent inspection of fuel quality at fuel dispensing stations, oil depots and tank lorries Safety of CNG Buses in Delhi: Findings and Recommendations The smokescreen of lies: Myths and facts about CNG Engines of the Devil
If it’s broken, don’t fix it. That’s the new motto of the government: forget it and build another. Do not sort out details. I am talking of what the government believes will form the spine of regulation in future. The flavour of the day is ‘authorities’: separate, independent institutions not bound by departmental morass, not tied down by procedures or personnel—the bane supposedly of any implementation or regulatory initiative. I think it is time to review this gelato of current governance.
I smelled the air of Bangalore last week. It was foul. I remembered how in the late 1990s, when Delhi’s air was dark and dirty, we had run an advertisement in the newspapers: “Roll down the window of your bullet-proof car, Mr Prime Minister, the security threat is not the gun it is the air of Delhi.” Since then Delhi introduced compressed natural gas, it increased the number of buses, it got better quality fuel. With all this, the air got less dirty and less toxic.