"Emerging trends, Challenges and the way ahead”

The seminar on “Emerging trends, Challenges and the way ahead” will bring together government officials, academia and stakeholders of transport sector to discus and deliberate.

State’s urban development department in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has organized a seminar on “Emerging trends, Challenges and the way ahead” on Saturday, May 26, 2012 at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar. Urban Development minister Nitin Patel will be the Chief Guest of the seminar.

It is noteworthy that the State has seen rapid urbanization along with the unprecedented economic growth. According to the latest Census-2011, Gujarat is 42.58% urbanized besides the State having one of the highest rates of urbanization among all States in the country. In such scenario, it is of utmost important to chart out a roadmap for infrastructure development and policy implementation mechanism for urban transportation in Gujarat. 

The seminar would cover a wide range of topics of interest to stake holders in the urban transportation including integrated mobility, transport-oriented development and safer and greener transport.

The seminar would bring together senior government officials, policy and decision makers, academia, research organizations, eminent names and other stakeholders of the transport industry to discuss and deliberate on the emerging transport paradigms, latest technologies and global best practices along with the underlying challenges.