Bus Rapid Transit Systems in India are a cautionary tale about the high cost of copy-paste urban planning. They’re being dismantled in Jaipur and Pune and triggering protests in Hubballi-Dharwad.
New Delhi: Launched with much fanfare in May 2013 to address Indore’s traffic problem by prioritising public bus transport, the 11-km-long Bus Rapid Transit...
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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