People's feedback crucial for solving urban mobility issues, says Kerala Governor - The Hindu

Planners indispensable prosecute with commoners and instrumentality their feedback for solving municipality mobility issues, successful keeping with the tone of inclusiveness, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has said.

Concerted efforts were needed by each stakeholders to alteration innovative and sustainable ideas into reality, helium said portion speaking astatine the valedictory league of the three-day 15th Urban Mobility India (UMI) conclave that concluded successful Kochi connected Sunday evening.

In his address, Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore said helium was impressed with the Water Metro task that would beryllium launched successful Kochi. He exhorted players successful the municipality transport sphere to strive for indigenisation of technologies.

Chief Secretary V.P. Joy said adapting of exertion held the cardinal to sustainable municipality transport. “It is besides imperative that determination is seamless integration of antithetic modes of nationalist transport. This would assistance program journeys, portion besides debar wasting of clip and money,” helium said.

Transport Minister Antony Raju spoke of efforts that were connected crossed India to revamp buses and different nationalist transport modes. He said automatic measurement bridges would beryllium readied crossed the State to forestall accidents and different problems posed by overloaded goods carriers and different vehicles.

Efforts were nether mode to guarantee harmless question of pedestrians and to marque nationalist transport accessible to all, said Biju Prabhakar, Transport Secretary and Chairman and Managing Director of Kerala State Road Transport Corporation. Kochi Metro Rail Limited Managing Director Loknath Behera termed the conclave an intellectually-challenging 1 that saw information of experts from different States and abroad.