India, France sign pilot project agreement on `Mobilise Your City’
07 Sep 2018
India and France on Thursday signed an implementation agreement on `Mobilise Your City’ (MYC),which aims at supporting three pilot cities - Nagpur, Kochi and Ahmedabad - for reduction of green house gas (GHG) emissions related to urban transport.
Mobilise Your City (MYC) is 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 programme in India.
The MYC will support three pilot cities - Nagpur, Kochi and Ahmedabad- in their efforts to reduce their green house gas (GHG) emissions related to urban transport by implementing urban mobility plans at local level and to help India at national level to improve their sustainable transport policy.
The three pilot cities selected under the programme as well as MoHUA will benefit from the technical assistance activities. The main components of the proposed assistance are:
- Support planning and implementation of sustainable urban transport projects,
- Support to strengthening institutional capacity for regulating, steering and planning urban mobility; and
- Learning and exchange formats with other cities across India for exchanges on best practices.
The MoHUA will work out details of the project activities with AFD in consultation with 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.