Mobility is one among the many challenges that India faces, with a stressing need to move over a billion people every day. Is the government of India taking enough steps to address the issue? Discuss (200 words)
Refer – Business Standard
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IAS Parliament 6 years
KEY POINTS
· In India, autonomous driving as an option is a far dream as the traffic conditions around the country are still chaotic.
· The concern with India is that, there aren’t enough ongoing experiments on mobility which needs to move over a billion people every day.
· The reality of shortage of roads and parking are not being effectively tackled.
· Apart from this the steps for alternative policies taken by the respective government remains static.
Suggestions
· Policy measures needs to be taken to incentivise experimentation with mobility models.
· Models like vehicle sharing are likely to be the main focus of intelligent mobility efforts in the short term.
· That would help reduce the demand for parking, and road space per user.
· Different models of vehicle sharing can be experimented and initiatives of few states like Delhi can be taken to bring in electric buses to replace inefficient vehicles.
· Electric Vehicle policies can be implemented for swapping 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers, even 4 wheelers carrying commercial load with electric vehicles.
· Experiments with bicycles for moving from specific point to point can be done, to understand the psyche of the people.
