Mobilise Your City (MYC); New Agreement Signed b/w India and France

1. India and France have signed an implementation agreement on “MOBILISE YOUR CITY” (MYC) here last evening.
2. The agreement was signed by Shri Mukund Kumar Sinha, OSD & Ex-Officio Joint Secretary, M/o Housing and Urban Affairs for India while Regional Director, Agence Française de Développement (AfD), Shri Nicolas Fornage, signed the agreement on behalf of AFD.
3. The MYC aims at supporting three pilot cities viz. 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 the local level and to help India at the national level to improve their sustainable transport policy.
4. 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:-

• to 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.