Hyd Metro: How Fair the Fares Are? - A Panel Discussion
The much-awaited Hyderabad Metro Rail was inaugurated by PM Modi on 29th November 2017. The metro is considered to be India’s largest project facilitated via a public-private partnership model.
Unlike its state of the art infrastructure and the 30km route which was open to the public, the fares fixed by L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd is not gone well with the general public. Is Metro Rail for the poor commuters? How will daily commuters cope up with fares? There are also issues with the kind of containers allowed inside the compartments of the Metro Rail. Even if these containers are allowed, it might be charged @ per 10kg. Will there be affordable transportation to the poor daily commuters? The panel will discuss these issues.
Panelists: 1. Prof C. Ramachandraiah, Professor in Urban Studies Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) Begumpet, HYDERABAD - 500016, India www.cess.ac.in
2.Narasimha Reddy Donthi Board Advisory Council at Textile Exchange Hyderabad Area, India Textiles and People's Monitoring Group on Electricity Regulation (PMGER), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Textile Exchange
3.Prashanth Kumar Bachu Project Manager – Urban Transport Prashanth is Project Manager – Urban Transport at EMBARQ India. He is based in Indore and supports EMBARQ India’s initiatives on sustainable transport, focusing on improving the performance of bus operations and offering technical support to the Atal Indore City Transport Services Ltd. (AICTSL) – the company responsible for the city’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) initiative. Prashanth has been extensively involved in developing Terms of References, evaluating Expressions of Interest, and reviewing the work of consultants and vendors to AICTSL. He is working on the Bus Karo Plus project that includes capacity building and envisages creating a peer-to-peer learning network among city bus agencies. Prashanth has also conducted performance analyses of city bus routes, including the direction based Big-10 routes in Bangalore that resulted in improved operations and the introduction of express services. Prashanth has 9 years experience in transport planning. Prior to EMBARQ India, he worked on projects in public transport planning and operations, route rationalization, long-range urban transport planning and modeling in association with Engineering Staff College of India and Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University. He has worked as a transport planner at PBS&J in Tallahassee, Florida. In Hyderabad, Prashanth has been instrumental in improving the suburban train services (MMTS), and has been involved with several NGO groups in the fields of education, environment and sustainable living. He has coordinated the Support-A-Child programme at Asha, Hyderabad; and provided mentorship in Human Values at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. Prashanth has completed Master’s coursework in Transport Planning at Louisiana State University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Osmania University in Hyderabad.
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