Webinar on Public Transport Standard Operating Procedures

The session began with Ms.Shreya Gadepalli, South Asia Programme Lead of Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), introducing Urbanlogue, a platform to guide city officials to tackle COVID - 19 and ensure safe transport systems. She then introduced Mr. Kunal Kumar IAS, Joint-Secretary, Smart Cities Mission (SCM), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

He introduced the session, which began with three presentations: Shreya Gadepalli on ‘Post -lockdown guidelines for bus operations’; C Shikha IAS, Managing Director, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), on the ‘Indian city experience of responding to COVID-19’; and Gerald Ollivier, Lead Transport Specialist, World Bank on a ‘COVID Green Label’.

Following the presentations, the session proceeded with a panel discussion moderated by Shreya and Juergen Baumann, Project Director, SMART SUT, GIZ with a panel comprising Kunal Kumar, Dharmendra Pratap Yadav IAS, Principal Secretary, Tamil Nadu Transport Department, C Shikha IAS, and Sandeep Raizada, General Manager, Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd. (DIMTS).