Sustainable Urban Transport Project

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The project's development objective (PDO) is to promote environmentally Sustainable Urban Transport in India and to improve the usage of environment-friendly transport modes through demonstration projects in selected cities. There are two components to the project. The first component of the project is providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) to improve the national, state and local capacity to implement the capacity building elements and the public- and non-motorized-transport- related aspects of National Urban Transport Policy. The second component of the project is supporting design and implementation of demonstration projects in six selected cities (in five participating states), which will create models of sustainable transport solutions for other Indian cities to replicate. The six cities, selected by government of India (GOI) through a competitive selection process, include Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad (in Maharashtra), Naya Raipur (in Chhattisgarh), Jalandhar (in Punjab), Indore (in Madhya Pradesh), and Mysore (in Karnataka). The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loan will finance activities under the component two in three project cities (Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, and Naya Raipur). A Global Environment Facility (GEF) grant (being processed under a separate GEF project) will be used to finance component one and technical assistance activities of component two in all six cities.