To ensure passenger privacy, the CCTV units will be placed in common areas such as entryways near the doors, avoiding private compartments. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, has green-lit a nationwide plan to install CCTV cameras across 74,000 train coaches and 15,000 locomotives, marking one of the largest public transport surveillance initiatives globally. The...
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A Sustainable Blueprint for Smart Cities
The Smart Cities Mission ensures that systems and regulations that balance growth, business friendliness and public interest are in place, say Upendra Joshi and Shivanshu Thaplyal.
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Public projects require subsidy
At the moment, we have two new projects. We are working on a project on semi-high speed train to improve the travel time between Delhi and Chandigarh. This involves our recommending ways to reduce the trip to two hours instead of the present four. We are also cooperating on stations. Stations are living spaces and not just places where people come and go.
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Metro systems viable for large cities
Let me clarify that the term ĆĀ“Smart CityĆĀ“ does not denote scale. We can have small Smart Cities and large Smart Cities, both successful. The Mass Rapid Transport System or MRTS is really meant for large cities which have the population and economic density to sustain such expensive infrastructure
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Hybrid modes of implementation
The Central government approved Smart Cities Mission involves the development of one hundred smart cities in India. One of the most important elements of smart city infrastructure is economical and environment friendly mass scale rapid public transport system.
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Delhi public transport cheapest in world
The Capital has emerged as the most affordable city in terms of urban transport among 60 cities across the globe in a survey done by GoEuro
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The Future Indian City
There are different models for development of smart cities. Some bring together a centralisation of different functions, others emphasise on the focused development of certain key infrastructure.
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Oil Ministry saves 600 litres of fuel by using Metro rail
The Union Petroleum and and Natural Gas Minister Marpadi Veerappa Moily has said that his ministry alone can save about 600 litre of petrol and diesel worth over Rs 40,000 by travelling by public transport. He traveled by the Delhi Metro rail on October 9.
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Finance panel to study pricing of utilities
Former RBI Governor YV Reddy would head the 14th Finance Commission, which was set up by the government to study the pricing of public utilities, disinvestment, GST compensation, sale of non-priority PSUs and subsidies. The panel would submit its report by October 31, 2014 and its recommendations would apply for the period
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Case study: PPP in urban transport infra
An impetus to development of satellite cities alongside our major cities will ensure a more distributed development through out the country.