Ms. Aswathy Dilip, Senior Programme Manager, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), led the session by welcoming the speakers, panellists, and participants.
The three presentations were by: Ms. Aswathy Dilip on ‘Effective communication and outreach’; Mr. Shashi Verma, Director of Strategy and Chief Technology Officer at Transport for London on ‘London’s response’; and Mr. Arun Bothra IPS, CMD-OSRTC and Managing Director, Capital Regional Urban Transport (CRUT) on ‘Lessons from Bhubaneswar’. The presentations were followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session, moderated by Ms. Aswathy Dilip and co-moderated by Mr. Gerald Ollivier, Lead Transport Specialist, The World Bank with Ms. Rushda Majeed, Country Representative, Bernard van Leer Foundation, and Mr. Kunal Kumar IAS, Joint Secretary, Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as panellists.