India and France on September 6, 2018 signed an implementation agreement on ‘Mobilise Your City’ (MYC) in New Delhi to support three Indian cities in their efforts to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.
The MYC agreement was signed by Mukund Kumar Sinha, OSD & Ex-Officio Joint Secretary in the Urban Affairs Ministry and the Regional Director of Agence Française de Développement (AfD), Nicolas Fornage. It was signed in the presence of Minister of State (I/C), Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Alexander Ziegler, Ambassador of France in India.
The initiative is a part of an international initiative, which is supported by the French and the German Governments and was launched at 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting in December 2015. Based on a proposal made by AFD in 2015, the European Union has agreed to provide funds of Euro 3.5 million through the AFD to contribute to specific investments and technical assistance components within the Mobilise Your City (MYC) programme in India. |
Objective
The MYC aims at supporting three Indian cities on a pilot basis - Nagpur, Kochi and Ahmedabad - in their efforts to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions related to urban transport by implementing urban mobility plans at the local level and to help India at the national level to improve their sustainable transport policy.
The selected pilot cities will benefit from the technical assistance activities initiated under the programme.
The proposed assistance includes:
• To support planning and implementation of sustainable urban transport projects.
• To support the strengthening of institutional capacity for regulating, steering and planning urban mobility
• To learn and exchange formats with other cities across India to enable exchange on best practices
Other Details
The details of the project activities will be worked out by AFD in consultation with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the three partner cities including institutions such as the respective Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for Smart Cities, the Municipal Corporations and any transport authority or transport related SPV.
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