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Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Planning Commission
Dr Rakesh Mohan to head a High Level National Transport Development
Policy Committee
New Delhi: February 22, 2010

The Government of India has set up a High Level National Transport
Development Policy Committee to create a policy environment that
encourages competitive pricing and coordination between alternative
modes of transport in order to provide an integrated and sustainable
transport system. The framework that national governments provide for
the transport sector largely determines the level of cost and
efficiency in transport operations.

The Committee will be chaired by Dr. Rakesh Mohan in an honorary
capacity, with the rank of Minister of State. Dr. Mohan is a former
Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs and Deputy Governor, Reserve
Bank of India. He has also chaired the Expert Group on
Commercialization of Infrastructure which issued the Indian
Infrastructure Report in 1977; and the Expert Group on Railways which
issued the Indian Railways Report in 2002.

The members of the Committee include Secretaries of all the Ministries
associated with the development of transportation along with the
leading experts in the field.

Such long term policy for the country was last delineated by the
National Transport Policy Committee in 1980, which was chaired by the
late Shri B.D. Pande, a former Cabinet Secretary. In order to
formulate an integrated transport policy that also takes account,
inter alia, of new technologies and environmental concerns, it was
felt desirable to set up a High Level Committee which may make
appropriate recommendations for consideration of the government.

An efficient, reliable and safe transport system is vital for
fostering rapid economic growth. Despite significant development of
all transportation modes over the decades, transport capacity has not
developed adequately in the country. This has led to increasing
congestion, asset deterioration and high levels of energy consumption,
pollution and accidents. Moreover rural areas have inadequate
connectivity hampering rural economic growth. The transport system
comprises a number of modes like the railways, roads, air and
shipping. The capacity of each mode has to be developed in a balanced
fashion for ensuring harmonious development of the overall transport
system including an appropriate mix between private and public modes
of transport so as to optimize energy consumption and efficiency.
Choice of modes is also influenced by pricing of hydro carbon fuels
apart from adequacy and efficiency of transport services

The full composition of the Committee and its terms of reference are:

Terms of Reference

(i) To assess the transport requirements of the economy for the next
two decades in the context of economic, demographic and technological
trends at local, national and global levels.

(ii) To recommend a comprehensive and sustainable policy for meeting
the transport requirements keeping in view the comparative resource
cost advantages of various modes of transport i.e. road, rail, air,
shipping and inland water transport with a special focus on the modes
that have developed less than economically desirable and the need to:

(a) encourage a rational mix of various modes of transport in order to
minimize the overall resource cost to the economy,

(b) ensure balance between the ability of transport to serve economic
development and to conserve energy, protect the environment, promote
safety, and sustain future quality of life,

(c) ensure universal rural connectivity,

(d) address the special problems of remote and difficult areas on the
one hand and of urban and metropolitan areas on the other, and

(e) adopt and evolve suitable technologies for cost effective
creation, economical maintenance and efficient utilization of
transport assets.

(iii) To assess the investment requirements of the transport sector
and to identify the roles of state and private sector in meeting these
investment needs and to suggest measures for greater commercial
orientation of transport services. In this context, the Committee
should pay particular attention to reviewing the experience with the
PPP approach or suggest ways of modifying it further.

(iv) To examine the laws, rules and regulations pertaining to various
modes of transport and traffic and to suggest measures for
strengthening their enforcement in the interest of the community and
streamlining the procedures and processes in line with the needs of a
fast growing modern economy.

(v) To identify areas where data base needs to be improved in order to
formulate and implement policy measures recommended by the Committee.

(vi) To suggest measures to improve the capacity to evolve and
implement projects.

(vii) To suggest measures for implementing various components of the
recommended policy within a specified time frame.

(viii) To recommend any other measure which the Committee consider
relevant to the items (i) to (vii) above.

The composition of the NTDPC shall be as under:

Chairman

Dr. Rakesh Mohan (in Honorary capacity, with status of MoS).

Members

1. Chairman, Railway Board

2. Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development

3. Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways

4. Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation

5. Secretary, Ministry of Shipping

6. Secretary, Department of Financial Services

7. Secretary, Ministry of Coal

8. Secretary, Ministry of Power

9. Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

10. Adviser to Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission 11. Chairman, RITES

12. Shri K L Thapar, Chairman, Asian Institute of Transport Development

13. Shri M Ravindra, former Chairman, Railway Board

14. Shri S Sundar, former Secretary, Transport & Shipping

15. Shri DP Gupta, former DG Roads

16. Professor Dinesh Mohan, IIT Delhi

17. Shri Bharat Sheth, MD, Great Eastern Shipping

18. Dr Rajiv B Lall, MD, IDFC

19. Shri Mohandas Pai, Infosys

20. Shri Cyrus Guzder, Chairman, AFL Group

21. Senior Consultant (Transport), Planning Commission as Member-Secretary

The Committee will be serviced by the Planning Commission. Shri B.N.
Puri, Senior Consultant (Transport) is Member Secretary of the
Committee.

nnk/rk/dk/kol/15:52 hrs.

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Election Commission
Bye-election to the Council of States
New Delhi: February 22, 2010

The Election Commission has decided to hold a Bye-election to the
Council of States from Uttar Pradesh, to fill up the vacancy occurred
due to the death of the sitting member Shri  Janeshwar Mishra, on 22nd
January, 2010, whose term of office is expiring on 2nd April, 2012.

Accordingly, the aforesaid bye-election will be held in accordance
with the following programme :-

       Issue of Notifications  :       9th March, 2010 (Tuesday)
       Last date of making nominations :       16th March, 2010 (Tuesday)
       Scrutiny of nominations :       17th   March, 2010 (Wednesday)
       Last date for withdrawal of candidature :       19th March, 2010 (Friday)
       Date of poll    :       26th March, 2010  (Friday)
       Hours of poll           :       9.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M
       Counting of Votes       :       26th March, 2010  (Friday) at 5.00 PM
       Date before which election shall be completed   :       29th   March, 2010 (Monday)

rm/as/dk/kol/15:52 hrs.

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Palash Biswas
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