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Interview:
‘Focus on improving

quality of Public Transport’

Abhay Damle, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road
Transport & Highways opines that shared mobility

is the future and India cannot be left behind

You are convinced that the coming into the domain now for parking spaces and go through all
number of personal cars will shared mobility in terms of taxis the hassles. That is where the world
get reduced sometime in future, too. So people are finding it more is going, and in my opinion that is
and shared vehicles will take convenient to go in for those where India will also be going.
over. What is your vision on this solutions rather than having their Is the government coming out
trend? own cars. Gradually, once the with some regulations and
Well, the number of personal convenience of shared mobility policies to streamline the entire
car ownership may not go down, comes into picture through process for the aggregators?
but for the convenience of driving technology it will become easy, the
on the road owing to congestion regulations will get defined and we When we talk of the aggregators,
and parking problems, a person will have a robust system to take we have to appreciate that they
will find it more convenient to hire care of the safety and security of brought the demand and the
a cab or get into public transport. the passengers. Probably a person supply together. Earlier, though
There is much focus on improving will find it more comfortable to ride there were taxis in the market, they
public transport quality in all the in a shared car or public transport did not get much business. The
states by the governments, and vehicle rather than driving in his own customers used their own vehicles.
new technological solutions are car through the congestion, look for What aggregators have helped

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