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Corporation; Manduva Srinivas, Deputy General Manager, and how they are taking a practical
Lea Associates, South Asia Pvt Ltd; V H Santhosh Kumar, approach to it. There is a good presence
Chief Traffic Manager of North Eastern Karnataka Road of companies and technology providers
Transport Corporation; and Kamran Khan, Trade Advisor, at the Expo”.
Australian Trade Commission. Dhiraj Wali, Vice President, Robert
Lakshmi Narayan Rao (Lux Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions
Rao), Director, leader-Digital Private Limited: “It is an excellent forum
Transformation-India, SAARC, Cisco to understand the policies and put forth
Systems India Pvt Ltd: “It was a our perspective in front of government stakeholders. It is a
fabulous experience participating at wonderful opportunity and a very well organised event. The
TrafficInfraTech Expo at Hyderabad. organisers should bring together many more participants from
Kudos to the organisers for the government and the industry, so that everybody stands to
successfully organising the show for win in this kind of event”.
the sixth year. It was amazing to see all Visitors from the adjoining states of Telangana like Tamil
the stakeholders in the segment sharing the knowledge Nadu, Karnataka; Kerala, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
that is relevant and ensuring that all the stakeholders Pradesh and many other parts of India visited the twin
achieve their goals. That is commendable. CISCO has shows. They included C. Madasamy, Highway Engineer,
been primarily engaged to provide solutions for the Smart Road Development Co. Ltd., Tamil Nadu; Vishant Anand,
Cities, Smart Transportation and similar needs. For us, Moto Vehicle IND, Transport Department, Govt of Goa;
it was a great forum to share our thoughts and views”. Ajay Gangwar, Executive Engineer, PWD, Uttar Pradesh;
Monali Shah, Director-GTM SK Upadhyay, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Jabalpur City
Government & Intelligent Transportation, Transport Services Ltd; Radhe Shyam Sharma, Executive
Here Technologies: “India has immense Engineer., Municipal Corporation, Sonepath; Rohit
opportunities as well as challenges. Ahirwar, Project Manager, Jabalpur Smart City Limited; P
I was inspired by the panelists at the Saroja Rani, Superintending Engineer, GHMC; Prem Singh
conference, especially the inaugural Rathore, DGM (Safety), Delhi Metro; Srinivasa Reddy, Dy
address by the MoRTH Secretary, and Executive Engineer (PWD), Road & Buildings Department,
understanding the role government is Telangana; G Venkatesh, AGM (T), HGCL; A. Paranthaman,
taking and its efforts in trying to advance Manager-Operations; Maintenance, GMR Highways; and
the state of mobility in India. I was really impressed with his T. Aruna, Management Expert & Team Leader, Pondy
speech on how the government is looking at technology Smart City.

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