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New Delhi to promote cycling for green healthy environment

March 9, 2009 at 4:11 pm


 (Source; Philstar via ITDP)

NEW DELHI (Xinhua) — Promoting bicycle as a green and healthy mode of transport, leaving their cars behind, New Delhi residents will for the fourth consecutive year, be all set on a Heritage Cycling Ride Sunday morning.

The event, sponsored by Delhi Cycling Club, was started in October 2006 by Institution for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), a non-government organization, engaged in research and advocacy for green, sustainable, and equitable traffic and transportation policies and programs.

According to ITDP website, membership of the club is free and open to all the cycling enthusiasts concerned about road safety, environment, climate change, and health and fitness.

To spread the message, the Delhi Cycling Club has formed a google group, says Rajendra, event coordinator for Delhi Cycling Club.

During the 10-kilometer ride, cyclists will stop at several historic monuments. This will help people learn about the heritage and historical monuments of Delhi in an interesting, educative and enjoyable way, the google group information about the club says.

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Global Vehicles lobbying to end Chicken Tax for Mahindra pickups

March 9, 2009 at 2:01 pm

(Source: Autobloggreen)


Should a tax on foreign-made pickup trucks that was first instituted way back in 1963 as a retaliation for a European tax on U.S.-bred chickens affect sales of modern and fuel efficient pickups from India in the United States? That’s the question that Global Vehicles, hopeful U.S. importers of India’s Mahindrapickups, is currently asking policymakers in Washington. The answer they are hoping for would rid the United States of the so-called chicken tax and would allow the importation of Mahindra’s latest trucks, featuring clean diesel engines and around 30 miles per gallon, without the 25 percent tariff.

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The Indian Railway King

March 6, 2009 at 12:40 am

(Source: American.com)

How did India’s Huey Long become its Jack Welch?


In his boyhood, long before Lalu Yadav became India’s most unlikely management guru, he sometimes strayed from his cows and scampered barefoot to the railroad tracks. Dodging crowds and porters, he made his way to the first-class cars and, for a few glorious moments, basked in the air conditioning that blasted from the open door. Then the police would spot him and shoo him away, into the moist trackside cowflap where he belonged.

The boy has grown up, but when I meet him in his New Delhi office, he’s still barefoot, and a headache for train conductors everywhere. Lalu Yadav, 61, is now the boss of all 2.4 million Indian Railways employees. When he wants air conditioning, he nods, and a railway employee hops up to twist the dial. As minister of railways, he rules India’s largest employer—one with annual revenues in the tens of billions—from a fine leather sofa, his sandals and a silver spittoon on the floor nearby and a clump of tobacco in his cheek.

Lalu is a happy man: happy to have risen to become rich, beloved, and reviled all over India; happy that a grateful nation credits him with whipping its beleaguered rail system into profitability; and happy that he’s managed to do all this and somehow stay out of jail. Under his leadership, Indian Railways has gone from bankruptcy to billions in just a few years. When Lalu presented his latest budget to Parliament on February 13, he bragged, “Hathi ko cheetah bana diya” (“I have turned an elephant into a cheetah”).

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Calcutta Tramways Buses Make Switch to Biodiesel Blend: 35% Lower Pollution Expected

February 25, 2009 at 5:44 pm
(Source: TreeHugger)

kolkata bus photo
photo: Richard via flickr

Indian Railways has already been running some of its trains on biodiesel. NowCalcutta Tramways Corporation has announced that it will be running its buses partly on biodiesel: A memorandum of understanding with Emami Biotech was signed last week for the supply of 250 kiloliters per month of biodiesel.

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Training programmes for heavy motor vehicle drivers

February 24, 2009 at 1:12 am

(Source: Times of India)

MARGAO: Western India Automobile Association (WIAA) in association with the road safety cell of the Ministry of surface transport organized training programmes and heath camps for heavy motor vehicle drivers at various places in South Goa recently.  The free refresher training course cum health camp for drivers which concluded on Saturday at the Kings School, Mugalli-Margao, was supported by the regional transportauthority of Goa. 

Yogesh Ambe, general manager (road safety) WIAA, Mumbai, informed TOI that the central ministry had allotted grants to take up such courses for drivers in Goa. “WIAA conducted free health camps and training course for drivers of BPCL, HPCL besides drivers at mines in Maina, Shigao, Sanvordem and heavy vehicle drivers at Vasco and Margao, with the support of Baba Naik of Tata Motors. Health camps for vision, blood grouping and general health checks besides issuing a free personal accident insurance policy of Rs 1 lakh each to all participants,” said Ambe. 

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