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Road Sector

The training on “Transport Policy and Planning Framework” was conducted by the AITD for engineers drawn from the Bihar Rural Works Department. The objective was to equip the participants with an overview of principles, governing transport policies and planning relating to various modes of transport and enhancing transparency and governance in implementation of rural road projects at state level. Strategies on climate resilient and environmentally optimized design were also brought out. Aspects requiring attention on enhanced safety on rural roads were deliberated by experts.


Topics covered during the course by the experts are given as below:

Ethics Transparency and Governance

Sanjay Kothari, Secretary, DoPT, GOI

Modes of Transport and Integrated and sustainable Transport

B.N. Puri, AITD

Traffic Safety - Current status and way forward

Geetam Tiwari, Professor, TRIPP, IIT Delhi

Railway Overview

DP Pande, Member Traffic, Railway Board

Financing and Financial Appraisal

Dr. Manoj Singh, Adviser(Transport), NITI Ayog

Roads and Road Transport - An Overview and Current Initiatives

D.P. Gupta, AITD

Rural Roads

I.K. Pateriya, Director(Technical), NRRDA, MoRD, GOI

Other Modes of Transport:  Water Transport

M. Ramachandran, Secretary, MoUD, GOI

Participants

Road Sector

Sitting (L to R)

Mr. Bhagwat Ram, Qaiser Rasheed, Ashok Kumar Mishra, Rajiv Nayan Prasad Singh, R.N. Aga, K.L. Thapar, Sanjay Kothari, B.N. Puri, D.P. Gupta, Rajiv  Ranjan Sharma

1st Row (L to R)

Mr. Nirmal kumar,   Shiv Kumar Mishra, Yogendra Kumar Bhatia, Upendra Kumar Kishore, Raghubir Safi, Ram Kumar Mishra, Satya Praksh Srivastava, Ashok Kumar, Madhusudan Shah , Prabhakar Singh, Md. Khaliquzzaman, Raghubir Prasad, Rameshwar Singh, Purendra Prasad Singh, Sanjay Kumar Roy, Ajay Kumar Singh, Sunil Kumar Singh, Prem Sagar, Rameshwar Choudhary, Rajesh Kumar