● 3-day 16th Urban Mobility India Meet Gets Underway at Delhi
The 16th edition of Urban Mobility India (UMI) conference was inaugurated at Delhi today by Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, while Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India (GoI) Shri Manoj Joshi was prominently present on the occasion.
The Maha Metro Stall was also inaugurated today at the venue of the national conference. The Union Minister Shri Puri inaugurated the Nagpur Metro Stall. Shri Manoj Joshi graced the event. Maha Metro has depicted its various achievements from Nagpur and Pune at the venue, including those related to Property Development (PD), Financial Sustainability, rainwater harvesting.
Other aspects like Make in India Aluminium Body coaches, Public Outreach activities like Metro Samwaad, the MetroNeo Project, various awards bagged by Maha Metro all these years have also been showcased there. The stall has been getting good response and people have been visiting the stall.
The annual UMI Conference and Expo is a flagship event held under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. The primary objective of the conference is to disseminate information to the cities, whose officials attend the conference, and to help them keep up-to-date with best urban transport practices.
Inaugurating the three-day conference, Union Minister Shri Puri spoke about the various aspects of transport and Metro Rail. Metro operations started in the country in 1972. The growth in the Metro Rail sector over the last few years has been relatively both dynamic and qualitative, Shri Puri said.
With the passage of period, we have succeeded in incorporating technology in the process and have been successful in providing quality metro services to many cities of the country. In the future, our aim would be to reduce the number of personal vehicles on the roads and ensure widespread acceptability of public transport as a mode of conveyance.
Metro development since 1972, when the Calcutta Metro started, and the metro development in the last few years has been relatively dynamic and qualitative. We have been adding technology day by day and have been successful in providing quality metro services to many cities. In the future, we will try to reduce the number of personal cars on the road and make citizens accept the use of public transport.
The `Make in India’ concept has been very well received and embraced by transport sector, the minister said and added that it’s a bodes well for the development of the country. The 3-day meet is attended by officers from across the Metro projects across the country. It would deliberate on the various aspects related to Metro Rail in particular and transport sector in general.
Addressing the gathering, Shri Manoj Joshi spoke about the importance of Fist and Last Mile Connectivity. These aspects play a vital role in increasing the ridership for metro services, he added.