“Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency”

Organised by An initiative supported by

CMSR Consultants fostering sustainable partnerships

Final Project Report

September, 2013

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency About SSEF

Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF) works to strengthen the energy security of the country by aiding the design and implementation of policies that encourage energy efficiency as well as renewable energy. Shakti belongs to an association of technical and policy experts called the ClimateWorks Network. ( www.shaktifoundation.in )

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect those of Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. The Foundation does not guarantee the accuracy of any data included in this publication and does not accept responsibility for the consequences of its use. Content

1. Title of the project ...... 01

2. Executive Summary ...... 02

3. Introduction of the project ...... 04

4. Activities ...... 06

5. Outputs ...... 59

6. Outcomes ...... 59

7. Key learning and challenges faced ...... 61

8. Collaboration ...... 62

9. Way forward ...... 63

10. List of Annexures ...... 64

Annexure - 1 ( Minute to Minute Programme )

Annexure - 2 ( List of Participants )

Annexure - 3 (Short Biography of Speakers )

Annexure - 4 ( Photographs )

Annexure - 5 ( Media Coverage )

3 1. Title of the project

Project Title: Building CSO and Media Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Contract No: 1301-00571 Duration : Feb 1 - Sep 30, 2013

1 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 2. Executive Summary The 2013 series of seven workshops on fuel efficiency and clean vehicles, organized from April to August, brought together media and civil society representatives on a common platform. What ensued was engaging discussions, insightful presentations and lively debates. The combination of a perpetually inquisitive media and highly experi- enced speakers resulted in fruitful discussions on a variety of issues related to sustainable urban transport scenario in the country. While the discussions enhanced the existing knowledge of journalists, for participating CSOs it was an opportunity to engage and collaborate to work on urban mobility issues in the near future.

Highlights: √ 7 regional workshops organised in Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata and New Delhi. √ 74 journalists and 72 CSO representatives participated. √ 26 cities were represented in these workshops. √ 32 experts from prominent institutes including IITs, IISc, IITM, ICCT, TERI and others participated.

Selection of speakers and participants: A month long period was devoted to scan the existing media reporting on fuel efficiency, vehicular air pollution and urban transport issues. The objective was to shortlist the publications (National as well as Regional) as well as reporters covering these issues. Similarly, CSOs, research bodies and academic institutes were shortlisted from four different regions of the country. ICCT and TERI also provided support in this process by nominating senior representatives to conduct sessions in these workshops. Organizing the workshops CMSR Consultants successfully organized seven regional workshops in Southern, East- ern, Western and Northern Regions of the country. These workshops were organized in Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune and New Delhi respectively. Most popular venues in these cities were hired to ensure that local media and CSOs don’t find it difficult to locate the venue. These workshops and Open Forum were attended by print and online journalists, CSOs, automobile sector representatives, youth groups and students.

Issues discussed While the main theme of the workshop remained fuel efficiency and clean vehicles, several other inter-related issues were included to have a comprehensive discussion on urban mobility. Debate and discussion on topics like emission norms, auto-fuel policy, non-motorised transport, road safety, air-quality and its impact on health resulted in better understanding of the issues and also widened the scope of these workshops. Another area of focus was to highlight the ongoing research in transport sector in some of the premier institutes of the country like IITs. Thus themes like alternative fuels, solar driven vehicles and need for emission factors for PM were also included in the workshop.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 2 Diverse Participation In every workshop there was participation of 25-30 representatives of media, CSOs, researchers and students. To ensure better interaction and involvement, participation in the workshop was deliberately kept in smaller groups. It was quite encouraging to see participation of college students (architecture/urban design/environmental sciences) in the workshops particularly in Pune and New Delhi. The workshop sessions were conducted by eminent experts from prestigious institutions and organisations including IITs, TERI, ICCT, IISc, IITM, etc.

Outcome and Learnings The proceedings of the workshops and the issues discussed were widely reported in print media including several prominent publications like The Times of India, DNA, Sakal Times, Bangalore Mirror, Dainik Jagran, NBT, New Indian Express and many others. The workshops also helped representatives of research organizations and CSOs to improve their media relations and enhance their communication skills when talking to media. Several regional CSOs showed keen interest in working together on issues related to urban mobility in near future. CMSR Consultants would like to propose to make an online platform for all the stakeholders to continuously engage and interact on critically important transport issues.

3 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 3. Introduction of the Project The present scenario of urban transport cy, 2002 laid out a road map for improve- across India is categorised by sprawling ments in fuel quality and vehicular emis- cities, declining share of public transport sion norms. However, the extent to which and non-motorised transport, and in- implementation is effective has been creased motorisation leading to pollution questioned. Euro-III equivalent vehicles and high road fatalities. Vehicle registra- and fuel quality were introduced across tions in the country have shown a phe- the country and Euro – IV in 13 major cit- nomenal increase as they grew from a ies from April, 2010. Till date, BS-IV qual- mere 0.3 million in 1951 to 140 million ity fuel is only available in 20 cities. In the in 2011. Infact the growth in number of current scenario, fuel emission norms vehicles has been much faster than the should me more stringent in the coun- growth of urban population. As a conse- try. The reach of Euro IV equivalent fuel quence, our cities are increasingly com- needs to be expanded to all major cities. ing in the grip of killer pollution and are At the same time, the use of alternative marred by mobility crisis. fuels needs to be aggressively promoted in India both for energy security and emis- Emission Standards sion reduction. Vehicular emissions are one of the most Air Pollution and Health severe environmental problems associated with traffic growth. India, like most Transportation is a major contributor to other countries has set emissions stan- air pollution and has resulted in serious dards for vehicle engines. It was in 1991 air quality and health issues, which im- that India embarked on a formal emission poses potentially substantial economic control regime. Later, the Auto Fuel Poli- costs to society. Infact many Indian cities are in the grip of multi pollutant crisis. Mo-

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 4 tor vehicles emit some of the most health Workshop and Civic Forum damaging air pollutants and the deadli- Cities can achieve clean air and be- est carcinogens and compounds. It is come liveable if people understand the not only big cities which are exposed to current scenario and solutions to im- the unacceptable levels of air pollutants prove it. Here, media and Civil Society but also the smaller ones due to lack of Organisations can play a significant good quality fuel and poor road infra- role. They can ignite public opinion to structure. Studies in several Indian cit- demand change for a better city life. ies have shown increased hospitalisa- Massive public relation and awareness tion for asthma, lung diseases, chronic campaigns must be undertaken to edu- bronchitis and heart damage due to air cate people regarding health effects of pollution. Long-term exposure to pollut- air pollution, engine efficiency and fuel ants can also cause lung cancer. usage. Cities are desperate to escape A holistic approach for better urban life the choking haze of pollution, protect health and get out of crippling conges- The improvements in fuel quality and tion. There is also a need to change tightening of vehicular emissions norms the perception that more overpasses will not by themselves solve the prob- and expressways necessarily lead to lem of air pollution. There is also a more development. Transport planning need to improve engine technology, and transport investment must have a fuel efficiency, inspection and mainte- purpose which must be clearly identi- nance programs for in-use vehicles etc. fied and reflect the views of residents Also, there is a dire need to strength- the city and Civil Society. In nutshell, en pollution under control system with we need to focus on ways for cities to new equipment and norms for in-use grow and travel sustainably without in- vehicles. It is understood that develop- creasing pollution and energy guzzling. ing and implementing changes in fuel Cities-that can meet the needs of its efficiency and carbon emissions could residents for clean air, safe streets, re- mean huge investments. It’s a big chal- liable public transport and highly attrac- lenge for the automotive sector but in tive walking and cycling journeys. the long run will prove to be beneficial to all. City planners also need to realign Considering this, CMSR Consultants their priorities. The available evidence in association with The Energy and Re- shows that the car-centric infrastruc- sources Institute (TERI) and International ture – roads and flyovers and parking Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) structures, are still the major obses- organized this series of Regional Work- sion in cities. Clearly, the plan to scale shops and Open Forum for Media and up public transport and non-motorised CSOs to sensitise various stakeholders transport will have to be planned and on these issues. Supported by Shakti implemented immediately to bring about Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF), the big change. More importantly, there this forum provided an opportunity to all should be a shift from the use of per- stakeholders to understand the issues, sonal vehicles to public transport. share possible solutions, and set new terms of debate and action.

5 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 4. Activities

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 4.1 Review of media reporting on urban transport:

A month long research work was carried out collecting news and information from all major national and regional publications as well as websites on various issues related to sustainable urban transport, particularly fuel efficiency and air quality. This helped us in developing deeper insights into the issues, identifying workshop themes and preparing a database of publications and CSOs.

4.2 Selection of speakers

In order to ensure comprehensive discussions on all the aspects related to the themes of the workshops, an attempt was made to invite speakers from diverse backgrounds. The experts were from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Manipur, Guwahati, Pune and Kanpur. ICCT also sent its senior researchers from San Francisco and Washington to conduct the sessions. Following experts participated in the seven regional workshops:

4.2.a List of speakers: Bengaluru Workshops April 16

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Ms Keya Acharya Forum of Environmental Journalists in India (FEJI) Bengaluru 2. Mr Gaurav Bansal International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Washington DC 3. Mr Sumit Sharma The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) New Delhi 4. Mr Anoop Bhat Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) New Delhi 5. Mr Subir Ghosh DNA, Bengaluru Bengaluru 6. Mr Mahesh Kashyap Consultant-CiSTUP, IISC Bengaluru 7. Mr Sameera Kumar Clean Air Asia Bengaluru

April 17

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Prof V Jagannatha Scientist and eminent educationist Mysore 2. Mr Gaurav Bansal International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Washington DC 3. Mr Sumit Sharma The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) New Delhi 4. Mr Subir Ghosh DNA, Bengaluru Bengaluru 5. Mr Mahesh Kashyap Consultant-CiSTUP, IISC Bengaluru

6 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Pune Workshops June 4

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Mr Parag Karandikar Maharashtra Times Pune 2. Dr. Elizabeth Abba K.J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce Mumbai 3. Mr Gaurav Bansal International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Washington 4. Dr. Sundeep Salvi Chest Research Foundation Pune 5. Dr. Gufran Beig Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune 6. Mr Ashok Sreenivas Parisar Pune 7. Mr Rahul Chandawarkar Sakal Times Pune

June 5

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Mr Sujit Patwardhan Parisar Pune 2. Mr K. B. Mariyanka Aikya Global Bengaluru 3. Mr Gaurav Bansal International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Washington 4. Ms Pranjali Deshpande ITDP Pune 5. Mr Ashok Sreenivas Parisar Pune 6. Prof Mahesh Thakur CSR Pune Pune

Kolkata Workshop, July 26

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Dr. Anup Bandivadekar International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Los Angeles 2. Mr Sumit Sharma The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) New Delhi 3. Ms Bhaswati Goswami C – NES Guwahati 4. Mr James Mayengbam Manipur Cycle Club (MCC) Imphal 5. Dr. Sudakshina Gupta Calcutta University Kolkata 6. Mr Jayanta Basu The Telegraph Kolkata

New Delhi Workshops Aug 29

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Prof S. Sundar The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) New Delhi 2. Dr. Sundeep Salvi Chest Research foundation Pune

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 7 3. Mr Lokesh Hebbani CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru 4. Dr. Anvita Arora Innovative Transport Solutions New Delhi 5. Mr Ranjit Gadgil Parisar Pune 6. Mr Gaurav Bansal International Council on Clean Transportation Washington

Aug 30

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Dr. L.M. Das IIT, Delhi New Delhi 2. Dr. J.P. Kesari Delhi Technological University New Delhi 3. Dr. Anubha Goel IIT, Kanpur Kanpur 4. Ms Keya Acharya Forum of Environmental Journalists in India Bengaluru 5. Mr S.M. Ghosh Smg-Hai Technocrats Kolkata 6. Mr Jayanta Basu The Telegraph Kolkata

4.3 Selection of publications and CSOs:

The selection process to identify journalists for participating in the media workshops lasted for one month duration before every workshop. A one-page registration form was prepared which all the journalists were required to fill and send back along with the copy of their I-card and two recently published stories on transport related issues. To make sure that editors were also informed about the media workshop emails were sent directly to the editors to recommend senior journalists from their organisations. The participants were also required to get the registration form duly signed by their editors/ bureau chief before sending their applications. The process of shortlisting the names of journalists was of weeklong duration. Two main considerations while shortlisting the journalists were his/her track record of consistently writing on transport related issues and secondly to ensure balanced participation from national and regional papers. Similarly, invitations were sent to all CSOs regionwise to ensure their participation in the workshops.

4.4 Preparation of Workshops Kits :

In order to ensure that journalists get enough reference material for writing stories on sustainable transport issues detailed workshop kits for the workshops were developed. The workshop backgrounder provided an overview of the current global scenario on issues like fuel efficiency, Air Quality, NMT etc. All the media workshop presentations were provided in a CD for the future reference of the journalists. Contact details of all the participants (Journalists as well as speakers) were provided so that they can be in touch with each other. The workshop kit also included a folder, notepad and pen.

8 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Editor’s involvement:

In order to ensure that the issues discussed during the workshop also reaches to the editors of respective editions, not just the correspondents but journalists of the rank of Assistant editor/ Deputy editor/ Bureau chief/ Resident Editors were also involved in the workshop. These included Mr Parag Karandikar (Resident Editor, Maharashtra Times), Mr Rahul Chandawarkar (Resident Editor, Sakal Times), Mr Sunil Mali (Ass. Editor, Sakal), Mr Subir Ghosh (Senior Editor, DNA), Mr Abhijit Ghorpade (Ass Editor, Loksatta), Ms Keya Acharya (President, FEJI) and Mr Jayanta Basu (Sr journalist, The Telegraph).

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 9 4.5 Workshops and Open Forum organized:

4.5.a Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 1

An Overview Press Kit The first workshop in the series of seven All the participants were provided with a regional workshops was organized at Ben- Press Kit. This included a customised folder, galuru. The media workshop focused on notepad, pen, programme backgrounder, Southern Region of the country and dis- reports in a CD and workshop badge. cussed issue pertaining to fuel efficiency, air pollution, emission norms, and detrimental Branding impact on health in various south Indian cities. Senior journalists were invited from four As per the guidelines, proper branding was South Indian states to participate. provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along with credit line was carried on the backdrop, workshop folder, backgrounder as well as Date and Time on the badge. In addition participation and support of International Council on Clean Date: April 16, Tuesday Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was acknowl- Timing: 09:30 am -04:30 pm edged by branding them as Knowledge Venue: The Woodrose Club, 7th Phase, Partners. Their logos were also carried in J P Nagar, Bengaluru. the backdrop, workshop folder and backgrounder note.

Travel and Accommodation CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of the participants during the workshop. Flight and Hotel stay for 2 experts and 9 journalists was arranged for the workshop. In addition local conveyance was arranged for experts and participants from Bengaluru and Mysore.

Invities Located in the heart of Brigade Mille- To participate in media workshop senior ex- nium Campus in 7th phase of J P Na- perts were invited from diverse background gar, the Woodrose Club is a popular to ensure that there was presence of people venue for meetings and conferences. from different walks of life. Apart from ex- The venue was well equipped with au- perts from TERI and ICCT, and senior print dio-visual equipments and provided a media editors there were representatives good ambience for organising this kind from the automobile sector too. List of the of workshop. speakers is given on the next page:

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 10 Speakers

Media Participants As the focus of the workshop was on Southern Region of the country, senior journalists were invited from all four South Indian states viz Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. From Karnataka, journalists participated from Bengaluru, Mysore and Mangalore. Rest of the participants were from Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi.

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Amrita Didyala Deccan Chronicle Hyderabad

2. CVLN Prasad Andhra Jyothi Hyderabad

3. K P M Basheer The Hindu Kochi

4. Jency Samuel Freelance Chennai

5. Sanjaya Raghunathan Dinakaran Chennai

6. M S Kashinath Star of Mysore Mysore

7. M Subrahamanyam Nagarbelaku News Mysore

8. B.N. Pushparaja Vartha Bharathi Mangalore

9. Merlin Francis The new Indian Express Bengaluru

10. Ravikantha Kannada Prabha Bengaluru

11. Ullash Kumar Freelance Bengaluru

12. Aishwarya S DNA Bengaluru

13. S Sridhar Bangalore Mirror Bengaluru

14. G Manju Sainath Deccan Herald Bengaluru

15. Vasanthi Hariprakash Freelance Bengaluru

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 11 Other Participants In addition to journalists, researchers and representatives of automotive sector from Bengaluru also participated in the Media workshop.

S.No Name Organisation City

1. Yogesh Kumar Independent Researcher Bengaluru

2. Kunal Singh Independent Researcher Bengaluru

3. Atanu Ganguli SIAM New Delhi

4. Raju M Toyota Kirloskar Bengaluru

5. M Kobayashi Toyota Motors Bengaluru

Minute to Minute Program 09:30 am – 04.30 pm

09:30 am Registration

Keynote Address 10:00 am Ms. Keya Acharya, President, Forum of Environmental Journalists in India (FEJI) Understanding Fuel Efficiency: The Current Scenario World Over 10:30 am - 11:00 am Mr Gaurav Bansal, ICCT, Washington

11:00 am - 11:30 pm Tea Break

Emission standards and Vehicular technology 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Mr Sumit Sharma, TERI, New Delhi Vehicular Air Pollution and Its Impact on Health 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Mr Mahesh Kashyap,Consultant, CiSTUP, IISc Clean Bus Fleet Programme 12:30 pm - 01:00 pm Mr Sameera Kumar, Clean Air Asia, Bengaluru

01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break

Challenges before the Automobile Industry 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Mr Anoop Bhat, SIAM Media reporting on Sustainable Urban Transport Issues 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm Mr Subir Ghosh, Senior Editor, DNA

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Tea Break

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Open Forum

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Concluding Remarks

12 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Excerpts from sessions

Keynote Address Ms Keya Acharya President, FEJI While opening the Media workshop Ms Acharya stressed on the need of better understanding and reporting of urban transport issues. She emphasised that at a time when the rate of urban growth is so high and the number of vehicles on roads is increasing tremendously, there is an urgent need to talk about its repercussions on environment and health as part of more sustained reporting. Ms Acharya urged the participating journalists to positively take advantage of the freedom available in the country and write on the issues of national importance without any fear. “India is one of the few countries today where Press has enormous freedom. We can criticise our political leaders and government policies without any fear. I think we should bring to light in a free and fair manner issues related to air pollution, fuel efficiency and need for more stringent norms in the country. Press should act as a pressure group to bring the desired changes in policy making. ”

Fuel Efficiency: The Global Scenario Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher, ICCT Mr Bansal of International Council on Clean Trans- portation (ICCT), presented a comparative scenario of Fuel Efficiency world over. He started his session by pondering over the need to distinguish between air pollutant emission standards and CO2 emission/ fuel efficiency standards. He said “While air pollution standards limit emissions of CO, HC, NOx, and PM, which are harmful to human health and vegetation, fuel consumption/CO2 emission standards reduce fuel use and GHG emissions.” He informed that India currently has standards to reduce air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles – Bharat III and IV standards, but Standards to reduce vehicle fuel consumption/CO2 emissions not yet in place in India. While talking about label- ling he said that there is an urgent need to inform consumers to look at vehicle fuel efficiency rather than star rating.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 13 Emission Standards and Vehicular Technology Mr Sumit Sharma Sr. Fellow, TERI Mr Sumit Sharma from The Energy and Resource In- stitute (TERI), gave a detailed analysis of the current Emission Norms prevailing in the country. He initiated his talk giving a brief analysis of the various agencies involved in it. Givign an overview of the fast paced urbanisation in India he shared that 38% of In- dia’s total population will be living in cities by 2025. “There are 53 million plus cities now and there would be 85 million plus cities by 2025 and 125 by 2050. Also, about 28000 two wheelers, and 4200 cars are added to India’s vehicular fleet daily (2011). Also, different vehicle emission and fuel quality standards are there for 13 cities and rest of the country. This scenario makes it utmost important to have more stringent and uniform emission norms throughout the country.” He also touched upon important issues like Ozone formation at the ground level and health impact of fugitive emissions.

Air Quality and Impact on Health Mr Mahesh Kashyap Consultant-CiSTUP Mr Kashyap focused his session on health impact of air pollution. Citing several recent studies he also shared information pertaining to air pollution scenario in several South Indian cities. As per a CSE study NOx – Nitro- gen Oxides is an emerging problem. Ten cities including Bengaluru, Mysore, Coimbatore, Salem, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Nalgonda and Patancheru have indicated rising NOx levels. “Also, available data points to high levels of other toxic gases. In Bengaluru and Hyderabad, Benzene levels have gone up, while ozone levels have begun to exceed standards during summer months in Hyderabad,” he said. He also talked about how asthma patterns in children during summer in the city Benga- luru have increased over time. Citing a study conducted by Dr. H. Paramesh, Lakeside Memorial Hospital, Bengaluru he shared how such cases increased from 2.8% in 1994 to 19.7% in 2004 and 28.8% in 2010.

14 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Challenges for Automobile Industry Mr Anoop Bhat Siam Mr Bhat in his session tried to dispel the notion that the automobile sector is against Fuel Efficiency Regulation for India. He said, “Industry supports the Fuel Efficiency Regulation for India, But the regulation has to consider the uniqueness of Indian Industry, differences of Indian testing procedure, Indian Road and Infrastructure Conditions, requisite lead time for implementation and also consider that India adopts technology from Japan/Korea/Europe.” He said that though public transport is must to balance urban & rural India’s growth but demand of personal mobility can’t be ignored. Talking about the steps taken by the industry, he said that the auto Industry improved CO2 performance by 8 % from 2007 to 2010. On the issue of emission norms he said that targets set for India are more stringent as compared to Japan 2020 targets. Also, Regulation in India cannot be more stringent than in Japan. According to him, consumer information and education is key to achieve fuel savings in actual road conditions.

Media Reporting on Urban Transport Issues Mr Subir Ghosh Senior Editor, DNA Mr Ghosh conducted the session in a interactive way and involved everyone in the discussion. In the morning itself he had distributed a sheet of paper asking participants three issues pertaining to sustainable urban transport that they would like to discuss and on which Media should focus. The filled-in sheets were collected just before his session. He brought together experts and journalists on discussion table and raised issues one by one. Other senior journalists like Ullash Kumar, Keya Acharya, KPM Basheer and Jen- cy Samuel also actively participated in the discussions. Addressing the experts, Mr Ghosh said that it’s always difficult for journalists to do data crunching. “Experts and Organisations working in the transport sector should communicate their findings in an easily comprehensible way. For reporters it’s not possible to go through enormous amount of data that you generate and write a story. For e.g provide us human figures on the impact of air pollution and not just data about emissions.”

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 15 Clean Fleet Bus Programme Mr Sameera Kumar Anthapur Researcher, Clean Air Asia Mr Anthapur touched upon the issue of public transport in his presentation. He said all over India, State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) with 1.28 lakh buses carry almost 7 crore people a day covering 1476 crore effective km. However only 5 of the 34 SRTUs made profits in 2009-10. The combined loss was over INR 5080 crores. Regarding Benga- luru he said, in a city of over 35 lakhs vehicles, BMTC has a fleet of 6200 vehicles and ferries almost 50 lakhs people a day. He highlighted the issues that are hindering smooth Bus Operations. While talking about the ‘Clean Fleet Management programme’ he said that it has several advantages for buses including improvement in fuel efficiency, reduction in air pollution, lower operations cost, extension of vehicle life through improved maintenance and driver behavior. With no black smoke and cleaner bus the brand image of the fleet/bus corporation as a ‘green’ or ‘eco friendly one’ also gets improved.

Open Forum

The interactive session saw debate and discussions on a variety of issues related to media reporting on transport issues. A common point which journalists share was that research bodies need to share more simplified data with them, which can then be converted into useful news stories. They also shared that research institutions need to have regular contact with media to share their latest findings and and other relevant information.

16 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 4.5.b Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 2

An Overview Workshop Kit The second workshop in the series of sev- All the participants were provided with a en regional workshops was organised at Workshop Kit. This included a customised Bengaluru. The media workshop focused folder, notepad, pen, programme back- on Southern Region of the country and dis- grounder, reports in a CD and workshop cussed issue pertaining to fuel efficiency, air badge. pollution, emission norms, and detrimental impact on health in various south Indian cit- Branding ies. CSOs, researchers, educationists anhd students were invited to participate. As per the guidelines, proper branding was provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along with credit line was carried on the backdrop, Date and Time workshop folder, backgrounder as well as on the badge. In addition participation and Date: April 17, Wednesday support of International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Timing: 10:00 am -04:00 pm Resources Institute (TERI) was acknowl- Venue: The Woodrose Club, 7th Phase, edged by branding them as Knowledge J P Nagar, Bengaluru. Partners. Their logos were also carried in the backdrop, workshop folder and backgrounder note.

Travel and Accommodation CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of the participants during the workshop. Flight and Hotel stay for experts and participants was arranged for the workshop. In addition local conveyance was arranged for experts and participants from Bengaluru and Mysore.

Invitees Located in the heart of Brigade Milleni- um Campus in 7th phase of J P Nagar, To participate in the workshop senior ex- the Woodrose Club is a popular venue perts were invited from diverse background. for corporate meetings and conferenc- Apart from experts from TERI and ICCT, es. The venue was well equipped with representatives from the automobile sector, audio-visual equipments and provided scientists from IISC and students also par- a good ambience for organizing this ticipated in the workshop. kind of workshop.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 17 Speakers

Participants from CSOs Representatives of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from Bengaluru and neighbour- ing cities were invited to participate. List of the participants is given below:

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Vasantha Kumar Mysore Math Mysore 2. Raja K Save our Earth Club Mysore 3. Sanjay Save our Earth Club Mysore 4. Nazia Anjum CMAK Bengaluru 5. Kumuda C CMAK Bengaluru 6. Srilatha CMAK Bengaluru 7. Prashant Kumar Akshaya Patra Foundation Bengaluru 8. Vivek Viswam Akshaya Patra Foundation Bengaluru 9. Ashwin EVI Bengaluru 10. Rajvi CSD Bengaluru 11. Lokesh Hebbani CiSTUP Bengaluru 12. Vijetha R Gatta Toyota Bengaluru 13. M Kohoyashi Toyota Bengaluru 14. Alok Kumar Researcher Bengaluru 15. Anoop Bhat Maruti Suzuki Bengaluru 16. Yogesh Kumar Independent Researcher Bengaluru 17. Kunal Singh Independent Researcher Bengaluru 18. Atanu Ganguli SIAM New Delhi 19. Raju M Toyota Kirloskar Bengaluru 20. Ravikantha Kannada Prabha Bengaluru

18 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Minute to Minute Program 10:00 am – 04.00 pm

10:00 am Registration

10:30 am Setting the context

Vehicular pollution management: A curse on urban living 10:45 am - 11:15 am Prof V Jagannatha, Scientist and educationist

11:15 am - 11:45 pm Tea Break

Vehicle Emissions: Need for more stringent standards 11:45 am-12:15 pm Mr Sumit Sharma, TERI, New Delhi How CSOs can develop better media relations 12:15 pm-12:45 pm Mr Subir Ghosh, Senior Editor, DNA Understanding Fuel Efficiency and its importance 12:45 pm-01:15 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, ICCT, Washington

01:15- 02:30 pm Lunch Break

Need for awareness on vehicular air pollution and its impact on health 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm Mr Mahesh Kashyap, IISc, Bangalore

03:00 pm - 03:15 pm Tea Break

03:15 pm - 03:45 pm Open Forum

03:45 pm - 04:00 pm Concluding Remarks

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 19 Excerpts from sessions

Keynote Address Prof V Jagannatha Scientist and eminent educationist In his keynote address he urged the CSOs and students to come forward and be a part of the development process through community mobilisation. He said, “Have your say in your district, city and state level planning process. Make authorities listen to your issues and problems. No public policy can be made in isolation.” He argued that when it comes to sustainable urban transport the real issue is of misguided priorities. “The need of the hour is to popularise public transport but no one is focusing on that. As a result of this apathy most of the Transport Corporations are running in heavy loses.” All major cities are reeling under heavy congestion. This is because growth in road length is significantly less than the growth in vehicular population particularly in urban areas. There is no space for vehicles and in a city like Bangalore this problem has reached to frightening limits. He ended his session by suggesting that “Small cities have a great opportunity of not repeating the mistakes committed by big cities and give a more sustainable future to your cities.”

Fuel Efficiency: The Global Scenario Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher, ICCT Mr Bansal of International Council on Clean Trans- portation (ICCT) informed that India currently has standards to reduce air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles – Bharat III and IV standards, but Standards to reduce vehicle fuel consumption/CO2 emissions not yet in place in India. He presented a comparative scenario of Fuel Ef- ficiency world over and emphasised on the need to distinguish between air pollutant emission standards and CO2 emission/fuel efficiency standards. He said while air pollution standards limit emissions of CO, HC, NOx, and PM, which are harmful to human health, vegetation, buildings, other materials, fuel consumption/CO2 emission standards reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While discussing about Fuel Economy/CO2 labeling, he said that there is an urgent need to inform consumers to look at vehicle fuel efficiency rather than star rating.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 20 Emission Norms and Air Quality Mr Sumit Sharma Fellow, TERI Mr Sharma from initiated his talk giving a brief analysis of the various agencies involved in it. He said that while National Ambient Air Quality standards are no- tified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, and Vehicular emission standards by the Ministry of Road transport and High- ways (MoRTH) under the Motor Vehicles Act , 1988, Fuel quality standards comes under the purview of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG). Givign an overview of the fast paced urbanization in India he shared that 38% of India’s total population will be living in cities by 2025. “There are 53 million plus cities now and there would be 85 million plus cities by 2025 and 125 by 2050. Also, different vehicle emission and fuel quality standards are there for 13 cities and rest of the country. This scenario makes it utmost important to have more stringent and uniform emission norms throughout the country.”

21 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency How CSOs Can Improve Media Relations Mr Subir Ghosh Senior Editor, DNA Mr Ghosh gave several suggestions to participating CSOs to improve their communications skills and media relations. At the outset he acknowledged the important role played by CSOs in making available vast amount of reseach data and reports. But the real challenge according to him is how to use this vast corpus of information. “Develop a great pitch based on relevant data and statistics so that journalists could derive interesting and compelling story ideas,” he said. A major recommendation for CSOs was that as journalist needs to talk to several experts and resource persons regarding a particular story, CSOs should be able to provide these contacts readily. He urged the CSOs to respect a reporter’s news cycle and deadlines. “Return calls promptly and if you do not have the information the reporter is requesting, tell the person that you will need to find the information. Call back promptly when you have the required information with you,” he explained.

Open Forum The intearctive session provided an opportunity to the regional CSOs to share the work they are doing in their own ares and what support they need from government and funding agencies. Mr Vasantha Kumar from Mysore Math also gave a small presentation about the role their organisation is playing in educating school children on several environmental issues.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 22 4.5.c Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 3

An overview Press Kit The third workshop in the series of sev- All the participants were provided with en regional workshops was organised at a Press Kit. This included a customized Pune. The media workshop focused on folder, notepad, pen, programme back- western region of the country and dis- grounder, reports in a CD and workshop cussed issue pertaining to fuel efficiency, badge. air pollution, emission norms, and detrimental impact on health in various south Branding Indian cities. Senior journalists were invited from four states viz Maharashtra, Mad- As per the guidelines, proper branding was hya Pradesh, Gujarat and Goa to partici- provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along with pate in the workshop. credit line was carried on the backdrop, workshop folder, backgrounder as well as Date and Time on the badge. In addition participation and support of International Council on Clean Date: June 4, Tuesday Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was ac- Timing: 10:00 am -05:00 pm knowledged by branding them as Knowl- Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Acad- edge Partners. Their logos were also car- emy of Development Administration ried in the backdrop, workshop folder and (YASHADA), Baner Road, Pune backgrounder note.

Travel and Accommodation CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of the participants during the workshop. Flight and Hotel stay for 2 experts and 12 journalists was arranged for the workshop. In addition local conveyance was arranged for experts and participants from different cities of Maharashtra like Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Kolhapur.

Invitees Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of De- velopment Administration (YASHADA) To participate in Media workshop senior is the Administrative Training Institute experts were invited from diverse back- of the Government of Maharashtra, and ground. Apart from experts from ICCT, meets the training needs of government IITM and ITDP, senior print media editors departments and rural and urban non- also particpated. List of the speakers is officials and stakeholders. given on the next page:

23 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Registration A registration Desk was created just outside the Conference Hall. Participants were required to register there before the programme.

Speakers

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Mr Parag Karandikar Resident Editor Maharashtra Times Pune

2. Dr. Elizabeth Abba Faculty K.J. Somaiya College of Science and Mumbai Commerce 3. Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher International Council on Clean Trans- Washington portation (ICCT) 4. Dr. Sundeep Salvi Director Chest Research Foundation Pune

5. Dr. Gufran Beig Scientist-F Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pune (IITM) 6. Mr Ashok Sreenivas Consultant Parisar Pune

7. Mr Rahul Chandawarkar Resident Editor Sakal Times Pune

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 24 Media Participants As the focus of the workshop was on Western Region of the country, senior journalists were invited from four states viz Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa. From Maharashtra journalists came from cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Kolhapur. List of Media participants is given below:

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Gerard De Souza O Heraldo Goa 2. Jitendra Pradyumanbhai Dave DNA India Ahmedabad 3. Bhavesh Brahmankar Maharashtra Times Nashik 4. Amresh Jashmukray Shah Daily Pratidin Wardha 5. Basit Mohsin Lokmat Aurangabad 6. Santosh Mahadev Mithari Lokmat Kolhapur 7. Yogesh M. Chiwande Dainik Bhaskar Nagpur 8. Shailesh Malode All India Radio Nashik 9. Hari Narayan Sharma Dainik Bhaskar Indore 10. Sandeep Nirkhiwale Swadesh Indore 11. Dr. Santosh Patidar Business Standard Indore 12. Shaikh Abdul Wajid Maharashtra Times Aurangabad 13. Jeevan Narayandas Ramawat Lokmat Nagpur 14. Vinayak Pund Punyanagari Nagpur 15. Manish Umbrajkar Tiimes of india Pune 16. Nupur Dixit Patrika Indore 17. Archana Singh Lokmat Samachar Nagpur 18. Suneet Bhave Maharashtra Times Pune 19. Nitin Brahme Vedh Content & Communication Pune 20. Neha Ghatpande Vedh Content & Communication Pune 21. Abhay Khairnar Sakal Times Pune 22. Rajil Menon Freelancer Mumbai

Others

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Avinash Satdive Student MIT Pune

2. Bhausaheb Kamble Student Fergusson College Pune

3. Neha S. Parkhi Program Officer IITM Pune

25 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Minute-to-Minute program 10:00 am – 05.00 pm

10:00 am Registration

10:30 am Welcome Note

Role of Media: Print media reporting and other initiatives by media groups

Media reporting on urban transport 10:45 am - 11:15 am Mr Parag Karandikar, Resident Editor, Maharashtra Times “Pune Bus Day” Initiative 11:15 am-11:45 am Mr Rahul Chandawarkar and Mr Sunil Mali (Sr editors-Sakal Group)

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Tea Break

Air Quality: Issues and impact

Air pollution: Measurement, impact and analysis 12:00 am-12:30 pm Dr Elizabeth Abba, faculty, K.J.Somaiya College of Science & Commerce

The System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) 12:30 pm-01:00 pm Dr Gufran Beig, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Air Pollution and its impact on health 01:00 pm-01:30 pm Dr Sundeep Salvi, Chest Research Foundation

01:30- 02:30 pm Lunch Break

Let’s know more about Fuel Efficiency and Emissionn orms

Fuel Efficiency: The current scenario world over 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Emission Norms: Need for more stringent measures 03:00pm – 03:30 pm Mr Ashok Sreenivas, Parisar

03:30 pm - 03:45 pm Tea Break

03:45 pm – 04:45 pm Open Forum with journalists

04:45 pm -05:00 pm Concluding Remarks

BuildingBuilding MediaMedia andand CSOCSO SupportSupport onon VehiclesVehicles andand FuelFuel EfficiencyEfficiency 26 Excerpts from sessions

Keynote Address Mr Parag Karandikar Resident Editor, Maharashtra Times Mr Karandikar in his inaugural session talked about the worsening transport problem in Pune. “I have grown up in Pune and in front of me the city has changed a lot. Ear- lier, using public transport was a part of one’s lifestyle, which is not there anymore, simply because it is no more a reliable option.” He said the city doesn’t need air conditioned bus stops and buses but a reliable, efficient and affordable public transport system. He said that if Pune had an adequate bus fleet the use of personal vehicles would reduce. There is a need to adopt best practices in public transportation, route rationalisation and increasing frequency of buses during peak hours on routes with high demand. Talking about print media, he shared that while we have been highlighting the concerns related to public transport but it needs to be done in a more proactive manner so that authorities can take note of it. He highlighted the need not only of better urban planning but also its execution on the ground, something in which most of the government departments are lacking.

Pune Bus Day Initiative Mr Rahul Chadwarkar, Resident Editor, Sakal Times and Mr Sunil Mali, Associate Editor, Sakal Pune Bus Day was an Initiative taken by Sakal Media Group to highlight the need of better bus service in the city. The concept was to bring all stakeholders of the city together for a day (November 1, 2012. ) to jointly address the issue of traffic congestion by increasing bus capacity as well as bus utilization and to reduce traffic flow of private vehicles. To start the campaign Sakal Media joined hands with all stakeholders both at local and national level to get support for their campaign. They encouraged more and more people to use public transport on November 1 instead of using their vehicles by launching massive campaigns. Talking about the outcome of the campaign, Chandawarkar said, “The outcome of the campaign was not just fruitful for the Sakal Group but also for the citizens of Pune who had seen a 20-30% decrease in traffic and less consumption of fuel.

27 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Air pollution: Measurement, Impact and Analysis Dr Elizabeth Abba Faculty, K.J S College of Science & Commerce Dr Abba talked about Air Quality Management and related issues in detail. She Said “If pollutants are not measured, they cannot be managed and incomplete/ inaccurate measurement will lead to ineffective environment management.” She also briefly touched upon how air pollution can affect not just human health but can cause critical damage to animals and plants. In her presentation she stated that as the transportation sector has grown tremendously so are its consequences in the form of traffic accidents, air pollution, noise pollution, congestion, health effects and climate change. Talking about global emissions she said that India ranks no. 4 in the list, which is a real concern in itself. The Indian transport sector energy consumption is the second largest consumer of energy (16%) after industry (43%) (Bose, TERI 2006). Dr Abba also shared a lot of useful data for the journalists to work upon and devlop new stories.

Air Pollution and its impact on health Dr Sundeep Salvi Director,Chest Research Foundation In his interesting presentation, Dr Salvi touched upon the highly important issue of detrimental impact of air pollution on human health. He rightly pointed out that ‘”The world has become more urbaniaed and the air has become more foul.” With massive growth in automobile industries and vehicle growth in India the air has become more foul to breathe due to pollutant particles like Nitrogen oxides, Sulphur oxides, carbon dioxide and mono oxide whioch leads to problems like asthma, cardiopulmonary and other lung diseases. Maternal exposure to vehicular pollutants during pregnancy is strongly associated with early childhood asthma. Dr. Salvi shared with journalists some of the findings of the research done by his team at the Chest Research Foundation and also outside India. He said that child asthma cases have doubled in 5 years in Pune. Based on the survey done by his researchers he said that traffic policemen and bus drivers who regularly keep in touch with the traffic and vehicles show evidence of increased lung oxidative stress.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 28 The System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research Dr Gufran Beig Scientist-F, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) In his talk Dr Beig explained the “System of Air Qual- ity Forecasting and Research (SAFAR)” initiative, its benefits and how it’s going to be extended to other cities in the country. It was first introduced in 2010 during the Commonwealth Games. Talking about Pune he said that the city has joined the list of the country’s most polluted cities, with high level of particulate matter being detected in downtown Pune. A sure shot indication of how polluted its air is evident in the latest data of the System of Air Quality Fore- casting and Research (SAFAR) that shows high concentration of particulate matter 2.5 or PM-2.5. These tiny particles are two and one half microns or even less in width and the primary source is emission from car, truck, bus and other vehicles. Under the SAFAR project, 10 Air Quality Monitoring Stations (AQMS) are being set up across Pune at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore. Apart from the network of 10 AQMS, 12 Digital Display Boards have also been installed under the aegis of the SAFAR project.

Fuel Efficiency: The Global Scenario Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher`, ICCT Mr Bansal of International Council on Clean Transpor- tation (ICCT), presented a comparative scenario of Fuel Efficiency world over. He started his session by pondering over the need to distinguish between air pollutant emission standards and CO2 emission/fuel efficiency standards. He said while air pollution standards limit emissions of CO, HC, NOx, and PM, which are harmful to human health and can damage crops, vegetation, buildings, other materials, fuel consumption/CO2 emission standards reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. He informed that India currently has standards to reduce air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles – Bharat III and IV standards, but Standards to reduce vehicle fuel consumption/CO2 emissions not yet in place in India. He briefly touched upon the issue of media reporting on fuel efficiency and expressed that journalists need to have conceptual clarity to ensure error free reporting.

29 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Emission Norms: Need for More Stringent Measures Mr Ashok Sreenivas Consultant, Parisar Mr Sreenivas in his presentation vociferously argued for the need of a strong fuel efficiency standards in India. He said that fuel efficieny is important from energy security as well as ecological point of view (GHG emissions). This is all the more important given the rate of increase of vehicular population in the country. According to SIAM, domestic passenger vehicles (cars, taxis etc.) sales is growing at 15% p.a. and vehicle sales double every five years. Such growth rate comes with implications like higher fuel consumption, greater emission of pollutants, greater emission of CO2 and GHGs, greater congestion and more accidents. He also talked about the history of Fuel Efficiency norms in India and what steps have been taken so far. It was in 2001 that Energy Conservation Act was passed and Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) was established as the single authority for all energy efficiency issues. However BEE till today has not been able to push for final standards due to various pressures.

Open Forum With the participation of journalists from several cities and states there was a good discussion in the Open Forum. Some of the issues that were discussed include (i) Comparison of BRTS in Indore, Pune and Ahmedabad (ii) Loss making Public Transport Corporations (iii) Better reporting in media on transport issues etc.

BuildingBuilding Media Media and and CSO CSO Support Support on on Vehicles Vehicles and and Fuel Fuel Efficiency Efficiency 30 4.5.d Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 4

An overview Workshop Kit The fourth workshop in the series of sev- All the participants were provided with a en regional workshops was organised at Workshop Kit. This included a customised Pune. The workshop focused on western folder, notepad, pen, programme back- region of the country and discussed issue grounder and workshop badge. pertaining to fuel efficiency, air pollution, emission norms, and detrimental impact Branding on health in various south Indian cities. As per the guidelines, proper branding was Senior representatives of CSOs, industry provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along with people as well as students participated in credit line was carried on the backdrop, the workshop. workshop folder, backgrounder as well as on the badge. In addition participation and Date and Time support of International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was ac- Date: June 5, Wednesday knowledged by branding them as Knowl- Timing: 10:00 am -04:00 pm edge Partners. Their logos were also carried in the backdrop, workshop folder and Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Acad- backgrounder note. emy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Baner Road, Pune Travel and Accommodation CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of selected participants during the workshop. Travel and hotel stay for experts and some of the participants was arranged for the workshop. In addition local conveyance was arranged for experts and participants from Pune.

Invitees To participate in Media workshop senior experts were invited from diverse back- Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of De- ground to ensure that there was balanced velopment Administration (YASHADA) participation. is the Administrative Training Institute of the Government of Maharashtra, and meets the training needs of government Registration departments and rural and urban non- A registration Desk was created just out- officials and stakeholders. side the Conference Hall. Participants were required to register there before the programme.

31 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Speakers

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Mr Sujit Patwardhan Trustee Parisar Pune 2. Mr K. B. Mariyanka Director Aikya Global Bengaluru 3. Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher ICCT Washington 4. Ms Pranjali Deshpande Program Lead ITDP Pune 5. Mr Ashok Sreenivas Consultant Parisar Pune 6. Prof Mahesh Thakur Trustee CSR Pune Pune

Participants From Maharashtra participants were from Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur. List of participants is given below:

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Chandrashekhar Bhondure Project Researcher MVBGSS Nagpur 2. Naresh Tagade Social Worker MVBGSS Nagpur 3. Kiran B. Director Sahyadri Foundation Nagpur 4. Vijay Kshirsagar President Sahyadri Foundation Nagpur 5. Amar Nath Scientist CEE Pune 6. Saahil Waslekar Student University of Mumbai Mumbai 7. Rajendra Sidhaye Chairman Save Pune Traffic Movement Pune 8. Shrinivas Rairikar Sr. Director MCCIA Pune 9. Madhukesh Researcher Freelancer Pune 10. Rushikesh R. Sankpal Teaching Associate University of Pune Pune 11. Vidiba Mundada Student University of Pune, BNCA Pune 12. Pavithra Lakshmi Student University of Pune, BNCA Pune 13. Ar. Ninad Jog Trainee VK-E Pune 14. Ashutosh Parisar Parisar Pune 15. Anup Awasthi Teacher Govt. School Pune 16. Megha Bilgi Student BNCA Pune 17. Rutvi Ashar Student BNCA Pune 18. Prashant Inamdar Convenor Pedestrian First Pune 19. Ranjit Gadgil NGO Parisar Pune 20. Komal Patdar NGO Janwani Pune

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 32 Minute-to-Minute program 10:00 am – 04.00 pm

10:00 am Registration

10:30 am Welcome Note

Role of CSOs in Popularising Sustainable Urban Transport Issues 10:45 am - 11:15 am Mr Sujit Patwardhan, Parisar

11:15 am - 11:30 pm Tea Break

How CSOs Can Improve their PR and Media Relations 11:30 am-12:00 pm Mr K B Mariyanka, Aikyaglobal Need for More Stringent Fuel Emission Standards 12:00 pm-12:30 pm Mr Ashok Sreenivas, Parisar Fuel Efficiency: The Current Scenario World Over 12:30pm- 01:00 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, ICCT

01:00pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break

“Pune Bus Day”-A Case Study 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Ms Pranjali Deshpande-Agashe, ITDP CSR Initiatives to Promote Sustainable Urban Life in Cities 02:30 pm – 03:00 pm Prof Mahesh Thakur, Trustee, CSR Pune

03:00 pm -03:15 pm Tea Break

03:15 pm -03: 45 pm Open Forum

03:45 pm-04:00 pm Concluding Remarks

33 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Excerpts from sessions

Keynote Address Mr Sujit Patwardhan Trustee, Parisar Mr Patwardhan, who has been advocating the cause of sustainable urban development for several years, gave an overview of the condition prevailing in Pune and what needs to be done. “With the rapid increase in the number of vehicles cities like Pune are not in a position to sustain this heavy traffic flow. The signs of a crumbling infrastructure are already visible. Traffic congestion and pollution have made travelling on the roads an unpleasant though unavoidable experience. The biggest danger to the environment is posed by the traffic policy of the administration. It is a known fact that auto effluents are extremely dangerous to one’s health. Yet, there is no policy in place to tackle this.” He lamented that the local administration is concentrating on increasing the infrastructure which for them means more space for automobiles and not public transport or periphery walkways or cycle tracks.

How CSOs Can Improve Their Media Relations Mr K B Mariyanka Director, Aikyaglobal Mr Mariyanka focused his session on how CSOs can improve their communication skills in dealing with the media to ensure an effective and efficient increase in media exposure for their organisation. The first point he mentioned was how to reach to the media. “Get to know the reporters and the publications you need to reach by researching and building a targeted list of the publications and journalists relevant to your practice area or areas” he said.The second important task here is how to present your research work. “Develop a great pitch. Pull together as much information as possible to create targeted pitches and story ideas that are both compelling and relevant. But at the same time make sure you are not giving too much data. It’s not possible for a journalist to go through loads of data and find a story out of it,” Mariyanka said. To ensure better media relations it is crucial to have a specialised communication person in the organisation.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 34 Need for More Stringent Fuel Emission Standards Mr Ashok Sreenivas Consultant, Parisar While interacting with the CSOs Mr Sreenivas first clari- fied why Fuel Efficiency standards are important and also argued for the need of strong fuel efficiency standards in the country. “This is all the more important given the rate of increase of vehicular population in the country. According to SIAM, domestic passenger vehicles (cars, taxis etc.) sales is growing at 15% p.a. and vehicle sales double every five years,” he informed. While talking about the history of Fuel Efficiency norms in India he briefly touched upon the steps that have been taken so far. It was in 2001 that Energy Conservation Act passed with the objective to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption. In this regard Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) was established as the single authority for all energy efficiency issues. However BEE was unable to define fuel efficiency standards due to various pressures. It was after considerable delay, that BEE published draft fuel efficiency standards in 2011, but final standards are yet to be published. It has been delayed for a very long time.

Fuel Efficiency: The Global Scenario Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher, ICCT Mr Bansal of International Council on Clean Transpor- tation (ICCT), presented a comparative scenario of Fuel Efficiency world over. He started his session by pondering over the need to distinguish between air pollutant emission standards and CO2 emission/fuel efficiency standards. He informed that India currently has standards to reduce air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles – Bharat III and IV standards, but Standards to reduce vehicle fuel consumption/CO2 emissions not yet in place in India. While discussing about Fuel Economy/CO2 labeling, he said that there is an urgent need to inform consumers to look at vehicle fuel efficiency rather than star rating. Mr Bansal urged CSOs to take up these issues of national importance and advocate them strongly. “India is already lagging behind when it comes to Fuel Efficiency standards and it must take immediate measures given the pace at which traffic flow is growing in the country.”

35 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Pune Bus Day Initiative-A Case Study Ms Pranjali Deshpande Program Lead-Pune, ITDP Ms Deshpande gave a detailed analysis of ‘Pune Bus Day’ organised on Nov 1, 2012. Residents of Pune cel- ebrated the ‘Pune Bus Day’ by discarding self-owned private vehicles and commuting in public transport. Around 2,500 buses were deployed all over the city to discourage commuters from using private vehicles in a bid to solve the worsening traffic mess. The event was preceded by a high-decibel print, electronic, outdoor and social media campaign. Sharing about the impact of ‘Pune Bus Day’, she pointed out that there was 25% reduction in private vehicle trips, 34% less consumption of petrol and 20% less consumption of diesel. Also, noise levels on streets dropped by 7 db and the emissions of NOx and PM2.5 pollutants by 15%. She urged that Civil Society groups can play a major role in organising and campaigning for such events and can use it as a tool to promote public transport.

CSR Initiatives to Promote Better Life In Cities Prof Mahesh Thakur Trustee, CSR Pune Prof Thakur in his session elaborated on the new CSR bill and also discussed how CSOs and corporate houses can work together as part of CSR initiatives towards common goals and objectives. Talking about the Bill he said that one pertinent change that The Companies Bill 2012 (when passed) would bring is the introduction of a mandatory corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) investment of 2% provided in Section 135. This Bill ne- cessitates a Company to contribute to the society, (whether towards environmental causes, educational promotion, social causes etc.) along with the reinforced duty to conduct the business in an ethical manner. He also talked about how CSOs can approach the corporate houses who are inter- ested in working on issues pertaining to sustainable urban development, clean air, pedestrian safety etc as part of their CSR initiatives. “ To do this they need to develop proposals and put forward implementable plans so that corporate groups could take interest in it and support it financially,” he stressed.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 36 Open Forum

Issues like lack of senior officials in transport departments, poor conditions of transport corporations and need for more campaigns on the lines of ‘Pune Bus Day’ dominated the discussions during the Open Forum. In addition, the intearctive session provided an opportunity to the regional CSOs to share the work they are doing in their own ares and what support they need from government and funding agencies.

37 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 4.5.e Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 5

An overview Workshop Kit The fifth workshop in the series of seven All the participants were provided with a regional workshops was organised in Kol- Workshop Kit. This included a customized kata, west Bengal.The media workshop folder, notepad, pen, programme back- focused on Eastern Region of the coun- grounder and workshop badge. try and discussed issue pertaining to fuel efficiency, air pollution, emission norms, Branding and detrimental impact on health in vari- As per the guidelines, proper branding ous south Indian cities. CSOs, research- was provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along ers, educationists and students were in- with credit line was carried on the back- vited to participate. drop, workshop folder, backgrounder as well as on the badge. In addition participa- Date and Time tion and support of International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Date: July 26, Friday was acknowledged by branding them as Timing: 10:00 am -05:00 pm Knowledge Partners.

Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Travel and Accommodation Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of the participants during the workshop. Flight and Hotel stay for experts and participants was arranged. Participants were from nine cities (Guwahati, Imphal, Ranchi, Patna, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, New Delhi, Gang- tok and Kolkata).

Invitees To participate in the workshop senior experts were invited from diverse background. Apart from experts from TERI and RTC is ICCR’s unique centre in Kolk- ICCT, speakers were invited from Calcutta ata. A landmark building, the RTC with University, The Telegraph, Centre for N-E its state-of-the-art galleries, an auditori- Studies and Manipur Cycle Club. In ad- um with excellent acoustics, and a ma- dition researchers and students also par- jor conference centre with seminar and ticipated in the workshop. lecture rooms, fills an important need and has become the preferred destina- tion for art lovers and culture enthusi- Registration asts in the city. A registration Desk was created just outside the Conference Hall. Participants were required to register there before the programme.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 38 Speakers

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Mr Anup Bandivadekar Programme Lead ICCT Los Angeles 2. Mr Sumit Sharma Senior Fellow TERI New Delhi 3. Bhaswati Goswami Communication Head C – NES Guwahati 4. M. James Mayengbam Secretary General MCC Imphal 5. Dr. Sudakshina Gupta Ass. Professor Calcutta University Kolkata 6. Jayanta Basu Senior journalist The Telegraph Kolkata

Participants from Media and CSOs

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Rituparna Mallick Jadavpur University Kolkata 2. Jonathan Woods Jadavpur University Kolkata 3. Sayani Basu Independent consultant Kolkata 4. Nirmal Mangar Sikkim Express Gangtok 5. Jagannath Rout Prameya Bhubaneswar 6. Patitapaban Sahu Dharitri Bhubaneswar 7. Amarjyoti Borah DTE Guwahati 8. S.M. Ghosh SHG - HAI Kolkata 9. Yogesh Mishra Central Chronicle Raipur 10. Gangesh Dwivedi Nai Dunia Raipur 11. Banani Bindhani CNCI Kolkata 12. Hirak Saha CNCI Kolkata 13. Mausumi Pal CEMPD Kolkata 14. M. Mazumdar CEMPD Kolkata 15. Abhishek Kumar Hindustan Patna 16. Subhash Pathak Hindustan Times Patna 17. Mrityunjay Prasad Ranchi Express Ranchi 18. Alok Prasad Dainik Bhaskar Ranchi 19. Shatabdi Das Calcutta University Kolkata 20. Aratrika Mukherjee Jadavpur University Kolkata 21 Manas Chaterjee IYCN Kolkata 22 Aparajita Mukherjee C.U.E.S Kolkata

39 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Minute-to-Minute program 10:00 am – 05.00 pm

10:00 am Registration

10:30 am Welcome Note

Cleaner Vehicles and Fuels for India: What are the Key Issues? 10:45 am - 11:15 am Mr Anup Bandivadekar, The International Council on Clean Transportation

Vehicular Emission Norms: Need for More Stringent Measures 11:15 am-11:45 am Mr Sumit Sharma, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Tea Break

Urban Transport Scenario in Kolkata-A case study 12:00 am-12:30 pm Dr Sudakshina Gupta, Deptt of Economics, University of Calcutta Excerpts from the study conducted by C-NES in North-East 12:30 pm-01:00 pm Ms Bhaswati Goswami, Centre for North-East Studies and Policy Re- search

01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break

Promoting cycling as a popular means of transportation: A success story 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Mr James Mayengbam, Manipur Cycle Club Role of Media in supporting the cause of Sustainable Urban Transport 02:30pm – 03:00 pm Mr Jayanta Basu, Senior journalist, The Telegraph

03:00 pm - 04:30 pm Open Forum (moderated by Mr Jayanta Basu)

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm Concluding Remarks (Followed by high tea)

BuildingBuilding Media Media and and CSO CSO Support Support on on Vehicles Vehicles and and Fuel Fuel Efficiency Efficiency 40 Excerpts from sessions

Cleaner Vehicles and Fuels for India: What are the Key Issues? Mr Anup Bandivadekar Programme Lead, India, ICCT In his interactive talk Mr Bandivadekar touched upon several issues related to urban transport scenario in the country.The gravity of the health problem became quite clear when he shared the data indicating that outdoor air pollution contributed to over 620,000 premature deaths and nearly 18 million healthy years of life lost in India in 2010. He argued that what India need is a comprehensive approach to treat vehicles and fuels as a system. This should aim towards reducing fuel consumption, reducing criteria air pollutants and improving fuel quality. While talking about the current policy scenario in the country he said, “India currently has standards to reduce air pollutant emissions from vehicles, but unfortunately separate standards are there for major cities and rest of country. Also, current roadmap for emission standards came to end in 2010.” He emphasized that India’s vehicular emission as well as fuel quality standards are already 6-10 years behind the world’s best countries and immediate measures are required on this front.

Vehicular Emission Norms: Need for More Stringent Measures Mr Sumit Sharma, Senior Fellow, TERI Giving an overview of the fast paced urbanization in India Mr Sharma shared that 38% of India’s total population will be living in cities by 2025. “There are 53 million plus cities now and there would be 85 million plus cities by 2025 and 125 by 2050. Also, different vehicle emission and fuel quality standards are there for 13 cities and rest of the country. This scenario makes it utmost important to have more stringent and uniform emission norms throughout the country,” he said. Mr Sharma, put forward several suggestions to improve the current scenario of emission standards and fuel quality in the country. He first gave an insight in to the present situation in India and which are the different government agencies involved in it. To improve fuel quality in India he suggested for speedier switchover to BS-IV, which is going to cost less than Rs 0.5 per litre. Also, there is a need for one fuel, one emission standard for the whole country. He emphasized on the immediate need to revamp public transport , promote non- motorized transport and encourage the use of alternate fuels i.e CNG, LPG etc.

41 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Urban Transport Scenario in Kolkata-A case study Dr Sudakshina Gupta Professor, Deptt of Economics, University of Calcutta Dr Sudakshina Gupta, Professor of Economics at Cal- cutta University, who spoke on the challenges in front of Kolkata as a city to provide an efficient transport system. She stressed, “There cannot be a common solution or plan for all cities and their transport issues. The sustainability factor of urban transport has to be specific for each city.” While talking about the increasing number of private vehicles in the city, she shared, “In Kolkata, only 6% of the city space is available for road, while, between 1998 and 2008 the car ownership by households increased from 1.73 percent to 11 percent and that of two wheelers from 5.67 percent to 16.5 percent. Also, households not having any vehicle fell from 61 percent to 49.2 percent.” She further added, “While cars and two wheelers together occupy 80% of road space but carry just about 12 per cent of the daily trips in Kolkata. Also, share of cars in the traffic volume on key roads can be as much as 40 per cent but they meet only 4 per cent of the travel needs.” She lamented that despite these statistics the city continues to design itself for car owners ignoring the travel needs of the majority which is using public transport and walking.

Highlights from the study conducted by C-NES Ms Bhaswati Goswami Communication Head, Centre for North-East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) Ms Bhaswati shared the major findings of the study on air pollution carried out by C-NES in Guwahati and Shillong. The study was carried out in two of the biggest cities of the Northeast on vulnerable groups like schoolchildren, labourers, rickshaw pullers, traffic police personnel, petrol station workers and roadside vendors. Khanapara (Guwahati) and Police Bazaar (Shillong) topped the list of the most air-polluted areas of the respective cities, the study mentioned. The survey was conducted among 1,000 individuals in select areas of Guwahati and Shillong. A majority of the respondents, according to the report, said they do not conduct a regular pollution check-up of their vehicles in spite of it being a mandatory requirement. “It has also come to light that most of the emission testing centres are incompatible for advanced engines like Bharat Stage III and IV,” the report said. The findings also indicated that the SPM and RSPM levels in Guwahati’s Bamunimaidam, Dispur/Khanapara, Gopinath Nagar and Shantipur areas were much above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

BuildingBuilding Media Media and and CSO CSO Support Support on on Vehicles Vehicles and and Fuel Fuel Efficiency Efficiency 42 Promoting cycling as a popular means of transportation: A success story Mr James Mayengbam Sec. Gen., Manipur Cycle Club Mr James from Manipur Cycling Club (MCC), talked about the current transport scenario in Imphal and how cycling could be a part of the solution. Giving an overview of the significant rise in the number of vehicles, he said while in the year 1994 total registered vehicles in Imphal were 56,786, by the year 2010 the number of two-wheelers (139675) doubled the total vehicles in 1994. This increasing number of vehicles is creating serious traffic and health problems. MCC is a dedicated effort to ensure the city grows in a sustainable manner. “The club was formed by people from all walks of life including activists, academicians, media persons, politicians, bureaucrats and entrepreneurs. MCC emphasize on the need to bring sustainability of urban transport system by a three-stage working model --- Engage→Innovate→Improvise --- and this process needs to take place in a cy- clical manner, and it needs to come from both the public and the government,” he said. While popularising cycling remains an important activity, the MCC, as part of its broader objective focuses on the concept of “Complete street”.

Role of Media in supporting the cause of Sustainable Urban Transport Mr Jayanta Basu Senior journalist, The Telegraph A senior environment journalist with The Telegraph, Mr Basu shared about the role played by media and judiciary in ensuring key environmental reforms are introduced in Kolkata. “For a period of three months on a sustained basis The Telegraph and other newspapers in Kolkata carried stories on vehicular pollution, use of toxic fuels and on several other issues. We highlighted the nexus that is resulting in the proliferation of toxic fuel in vehicles, which is severely harmful to health and environment. A feeling of great satisfaction for the entire media fraternity was when the High Court finally gave a directive in this regard,” he shared. Mr Basu also showed various stories to the participants that were given prime space in the newspaper. He urged the CSOs to come forward and work closely with regional and national media to propagate information related to vehicular pollution, air quality and impact on health based on scientific data and research.

43 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Open Forum With the presence of researchers, students, academicians and media the Open Fo- rum resulted in healthy debate and discussions on several issues. Participants from different cities shared the scenario prevailing in their respective cities in terms of air pollution, emission norms, vehicular pollution check etc and what steps their respective state governments are taking. Mr Basu also prepared a comparative matrix based on the discussions held during the Open Forum

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 44 4.5.f Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 6

An overview Workshop Kit The sixth workshop in the series of seven All the participants were provided with a regional workshops was organised in New Workshop Kit. This included a customized Delhi. The media workshop focused on folder, notepad, pen, programme back- Northern Region of the country and dis- grounder and workshop badge. cussed issue pertaining to fuel efficiency, air pollution, emission norms, and detri- Branding mental impact on health in various North As per the guidelines, proper branding was Indian cities. CSOs, media, researchers, provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along with educationists and students were invited credit line was carried on the backdrop, to participate. workshop folder, backgrounder as well as on the badge. In addition participation and Date and Time support of International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was ac- Date: Aug 29, Thursday knowledged by branding them as Knowl- Timing: 10:00 am -05:00 pm edge Partners. Their logos were also carried in the backdrop, workshop folder and Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi backgrounder note.

Travel and Accommodation CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of the participants during the workshop. Flight and Hotel stay for experts and participants was arranged for the workshop. Participants from 12 cities (Srinagar, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut, Agra, Pune, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, New Delhi, IHC is the most popular and re- Shimla, and Kolkata) participated in the nowned cultural centre in the capital workshop. city of Delhi. The India Habitat Centre was conceived to provide a physical Invitees environment which would serve as a catalyst for a synergetic relation- To participate in the workshop senior ship between individuals and insti- experts were invited from diverse back- tutions working in diverse habitat re- ground. Apart from experts from TERI lated areas and therefore, maximise and ICCT, speakers were invited from In- their total effectiveness. To facilitate dian Institute of Technology (New Delhi this interaction, the Centre provides and Kanpur), Indian Institute of Science a range of facilities. (IISc), The Telegraph, Delhi Technological University (DTU), Chest Research Foun- dation of India and others.

45 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Speakers

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Prof S. Sundar Distinguished Fellow TERI New Delhi 2. Dr. Sundeep Salvi Director Chest Research foun- Pune dation 3. Mr Lokesh Hebbani Transportation Program CiSTUP Bangalore Manager 4. Dr. Anvita Arora CEO Innovative Transport New Delhi Solutions 5. Mr Ranjit Gadgil Prog. Director Parisar Pune 6. Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher ICCT Washington

Participants from Media and CSOs

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Neha Agrawal Mensentock Communications New Delhi 2. Fahim Khan Amar Ujala Agra 3. Nasir Hussain Hindustan Agra 4. Santosh Shukla Dainik Jagran Meerut 5. Sumit Sharma TERI New Delhi 6. Pinaki Dasgupta IYCN New Delhi 7. Mukti Advani CRRI New Delhi 8. Subhransu Panda SAMBAD Bhubaneshwar 9. Athar Parvaiz Freelancer Srinagar 10. Suresh. K The Hindu Hyderabad 11. Pooja Goyal Punjab Kesari Chandigarh 12. Kailash Korde HT Mumbai 13. Koshy Cherail AEEE New Delhi 14. Varun Singh Himvani.com Dharamshala 15. Siddharth MAPNG New Delhi 16. Nitin Yadav Amar Ujala, Meerut Meerut 17. Durgesh Nandan Jha The Times of India New Delhi 18. N K Sagar Topix New Delhi 19. Bappaditya Chatterjee Business Economics Kolkata 20. Jagdish C. Bhatt Hotel Parkland New Delhi 21 Saurabh Public News New Delhi 22 Satish News Today New Delhi 23 Himani Jain Shakti Foundation New Delhi

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 46 24 Shilpa Kharwal Shakti Foundation New Delhi 25 Anand Mani Tripathi Rajasthan Patrika Jaipur 26 Arunav Sinha The Times of India Lucknow 27 Varun Tamta Yuva Manch Lucknow 28 Abhijit Ghorpade Loksatta, Pune Pune 29 Dipak Dash The Times of India New Delhi 30 Manish Kumar IIT, Kanpur Gurgaon 31 Mr S M Ghosh SMG – HAI Kolkata 32 Ms Keya Acharya FEJI Bangalore 33 Dr. L M Das IIT, Delhi New Delhi

Minute-to-Minute program 10:00 am – 05.00 pm

10:00 am Registration

10:30 am Welcome Note

Opening Session - Towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport 10:45 am - 11:15 am Prof. S Sundar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI, New Delhi

11:15 am-11:30 am Tea Break

Road Safety –Issues and Best Practices 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Mr Lokesh Hebbani, CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore Air Quality and its Impact on Health 12:00 am-12:30 pm Dr Sundeep Salvi, Director, Chest Research Foundation of India, Pune

12:30 pm-01:00 pm Experience sharing by participants

01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 02:30 pm NMT Inclusive Planning and Design Dr Anvita Arora, CEO, Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans), New Delhi

02:30pm – 03:00 pm Cleaner fuels and vehicles: what are the key issues? Mr Gaurav Bansal, Researcher, ICCT, Washington D.C

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Sustainable Urban Transport: Issues and Myths Mr Ranjit Gadgil, Prog. Director, PARISAR, Pune

03:30 pm-04:30 pm Open Forum

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm Concluding Remarks (Followed by tea)

47 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Excerpts from sessions

Towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport Prof S.Sundar Distinguished Fellow, TERI In his comprehensive presentation, Prof Sundar touched upon all the relevant issues pertaining to the promotion of sustainable urban transport in the country. The issues of continued concerns highlighted by him include ‘Uni-modal growth, lack of an integrated policy, targets and strategy to effect inter-modal shift, inadequate use of fiscal measures and pricing mechanisms, lack of inter-modal connectivity and seamless movement and fragmented responsibility’. While suggesting a way forward, he urged for the Introduction of Euro IV and Euro V emission standards and fuels by 2015 and 2020 in the entire country. There is an urgent need to set Fuel Efficiency standards for cars immediately and for HDVs and 2 wheelers by 2015. He said that it’s high time to reduce growth of personal vehicles and manage transport demand. He concluded his session by asking the citizens to be more responsible on road. “As citizens, it’s our responsibility to reduce trip numbers and lengths, reduce use of personal vehicles, shift to cleaner fuels, maintain our vehicles better and adhere to emission norms,” he said.

Road Safety Issues and Best Practices Mr Lokesh Hebbani Transportation Program Manager, CiSTUP, IIS Mr Hebbani shared the data collected by WHO on road safety in India. According to it road accidents in the country has resulted in 1.3 million deaths and is just second to AIDS (1.8 million deaths) as the main cause of deaths in the country. The scenario is grim and strong measures need to be taken to make roads safer for people. Sharing the data from Global Status Report on Road Safety he spoke that India leads the world in Road accident deaths, while China is number 2. In the country there is one fatal accident every four minutes i.e 15 people die every hour in India which equals to 360 deaths happening every day! It is trucks and two wheelers that contribute for 40% of these fatal accidents. He emphasized on the need to have a Comprehensive Strategic High- way Safety Plan with Four E’s i.e Engineering, Education, Enforcement & Emergency Response. “We can efficiently implement all these safety initiatives with active coop- eration from all the stake holders such as State Transport Department, NHAI, DULT, City Municipal Governments, KPWD, Law Enforcement agencies (BTP), Research & Academic professionals, Media, Professionals, NGO’s,” he concluded.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 48 Air Pollution and its impact on health Dr Sundeep Salvi Director, Chest Research Foundation Dr Salvi started his presentation by driving home the point that “ As the world has become more urbanized, the air has become more foul.” With massive growth in automobile industries and vehicle growth in India the air has become more foul to breathe due to pollutant particles like Nitrogen oxides, Sulphur oxides, carbon dioxide and mono-oxide which leads to problems like asthma, cardiopulmonary and other lung diseases. “Maternal exposure to vehicular pollutants during pregnancy is strongly associate dwith early childhood asthma,” he said. Dr. Salvi shared with journalists some of the findings of the research done by his team at the Chest Research Foundation and also outside India. According to him, diesel vehicles produce 1500-times more particles than Pet- rol vehicles and diesel exhaust particles increase allergenicity by up to 50-fold. Based on his study he made the startling revelation that Indian Lungs are 30% weaker than European/American Lungs. This is due to ethnic and nutritional factors as well as because of the quality of air we breathe.

NMT Inclusive Planning and Design Dr Anvita Arora MD and CEO, Innovative Transport Solutions “As long as cyclists and pedestrians are treated as second rate or even as non-existent, walking and cycling will continue to decrease,” said Dr Arora. She argued that there is an urgent need to look at NMT as an important constituent of transport planning. This is because (a) Urbanization has far exceeded the carrying capacity of the cities, (b) Ongoing and clear modal shift from the non-polluting modes of walking, cycling and cycle rickshaws to polluting motorised two and three wheelers and cars. (c) Increas- ing motorization leading to congestion and pollution, (d) Since the perceived problem of congestion was lack of space for cars, the transport engineering solution has been to provide more space to cars (e) Thus cities create a self-reinforcing process of ever more cars requiring ever more road space. To promote cycling in Indian Cities, she argued to develop a ‘National Cycling Policy, a Toolkit for Public Bicycle Scheme projects, Product design and Specifications for the Public Bike Schemes in India and propose Financing Mechanisms for Public Bicycle Schemes.

49 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Cleaner Vehicles & Better Fuel Economy: What are the key issues? Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher, ICCT Mr Bansal stated that there are multiple pollutants with multiple Impacts on health, environment and ag- ricultural yield. Infact in 2010 alone outdoor air pollution contributed to over 620,000 premature deaths and nearly 18 million healthy years of life lost in India. Thus there is an urgent need to improve the outdoor air quality in Indian cities with better emission standards and regulatory norms. He informed that India currently has standards to reduce air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles – Bharat III and IV standards, but Standards to reduce vehicle fuel consumption/CO2 emissions not yet in place in India. “There are certain key policy issues that need to be answered. What will the government’s (Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas) long-term emissions roadmap look like? When will the ultra-low sulfur fuels be available all across India? Will the price gap between diesel and petrol fuel ever be closed? Will an additional excise duty on diesel cars prevent further dieselization of passenger cars? Will CNG become available for public transit buses across 200+ cities?,” he argued.

Sustainable Traffic & Transportation : Principles and Myths Mr Ranjit Gadgil Project Director, Parisar Cities today are reeling under severe mobility crisis, health crisis as well as safety crisis. “In most of the cities, there is severe congestion, conflict between multiple modes and average speed is less than 10 km/hr in most areas. On health front as per WHO, 300 million people die every year due to the adverse effects of the air we breathe. When it comes to safety pedestrians, cyclists and 2-wheeler riders are the maximum risk.” said Mr Gadgil. He further informed that, about 1.3 million people die each year on the world’s roads and between 20 and 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries. Infact, road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people, aged between 15 and 29. “It is a myth to say that new roads, road widening, signal-free roads, flyovers and grade separators will ease congestions. Similarly, it is wrong to say that congestion is due to bad roads, indiscipline, cycles,” he said. Citing several example and case studies Mr Gadgil argued that the problem will remain unsolved till the time the whole viewpoint to look towards urban life is changed. “ It’s not about fixing traffic problems, it’s about fixing the city,” he concluded.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 50 Open Forum

The Open Forum saw a slew of questions from the media persons attending the workshop. These included ‘the current status of draft fuel efficiency standards published by BEE’, ‘Interest shown by the government in making NMT an important constituent of transport planning’, ‘availability of ultra-low sulfur fuels all across India’, ‘availability of CNG for public transit buses across India’ etc. Journalists form Jaipur, Meerut and Agra also shared about the traffic scenario prevailing in these cities and challenges faced by people due to poor public transportation system.

51 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 4.5.g Regional Workshop and Open Forum - 7

An overview Workshop Kit The seventh and last workshop in the se- All the participants were provided with a ries of regional workshops for 2013 was Workshop Kit. This included a customized organised in New Delhi. The workshop folder, notepad, pen, programme back- focused on Northern Region of the coun- grounder and workshop badge try and discussed issue pertaining to alternative fuels, new avenues in research, Branding future of solar vehicles and role of media As per the guidelines, proper branding was and CSOs towards promoting sustainable provided to Shakti. SSEF logo along with urban transport. The workshop was attend- credit line was carried on the backdrop, ed by representatives of CSOs, media, re- workshop folder, backgrounder as well as searchers, educationists and students. on the badge. In addition participation and support of International Council on Clean Date and Time Transportation (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was ac- Date: Aug 30, Friday knowledged by branding them as Knowl- Timing: 10:00 am -04:30 pm edge Partners. Their logos were also carried in the backdrop, workshop folder and Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delh backgrounder note.

Travel and Accommodation CMSR Consultants made all the arrange- ments for travel and accommodation of the participants during the workshop. Flight and Hotel stay for experts and participants was arranged for the workshop. Participants from 12 cities (Srinagar, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut, Agra, Pune, Mumbai, Bhu- baneswar, New Delhi, Shimla, and Kolkata) IHC is the most popular and re- participated in the workshop. nowned cultural centre in the capital city of Delhi. The India Habitat Centre Invitees was conceived to provide a physical environment which would serve as a To participate in the workshop senior catalyst for a synergetic relationship experts were invited from diverse back- between individuals and institutions ground. Apart from experts from TERI working in diverse habitat related and ICCT, speakers were invited from In- areas and therefore, maximise their dian Institute of Technology (New Delhi total effectiveness. To facilitate this and Kanpur), Indian Institute of Science interaction, the Centre provides a (IISc), The Telegraph, Delhi Technological range of facilities.Workshop Kit University (DTU), Chest Research Foun- dation of India and others.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 52 Speakers

S.No Name Designation Organisation City 1. Dr L.M. Das Professor IIT, Delhi New Delhi 2. Dr. J.P. Kesari Asst Professor Delhi Technological New Delhi University 3. Dr. Anubha Goel Asst Professor IIT, Kanpur Kanpur 4. Ms Keya Acharya President FEJI Bengaluru 5. Mr S.M. Ghosh Environment technolo- Smg-Hai Technocrats Kolkata gist 6. Mr Jayanta Basu Sr journalist The Telegraph Kolkata

Participants from Media and CSOs

S.No Name Organisation City 1. Bappaditya Chatterjee Business Economics Kolkata 2. Athar Parvaiz IPS Srinagar 3. Pinaki Dasgupta IYCN New Delhi 4. Santosh Shukla Dainik Jagran Meerut 5. Subhransu Panda Sambad Bhubaneshwar 6. Suresh. K The Hindu Hyderabad 7. Fahim Khan Amar Ujala Agra 8. Varun Tamta Yuva Manch Lucknow 9. Arunav Sinha The Times of India Lucknow 10. Jagdish C. Bhatt Hotel Parkland New Delhi 11. Pooja Goyal Punjab Kesari Chandigarh 12. Nasir Hussain Hindustan Agra 13. Kailash Korde HT Mumbai 14. Abhijit Ghorpade Loksatta, Pune Pune 15. Y. N. Pandey New Delhi 16. Shilpa Kharwal Shakti Foundation New Delhi 17. N K Sagar Topix New Delhi 18. Nitin Yadav Amar Ujala, Meerut Meerut 19. Anshu Tyagi Rashtriya Sanskriti New Delhi 20. Prashant Kumar Singh DCE New Delhi 21 Anav Malik DCE New Delhi 22 Anurag Arya DCE New Delhi 23 Lavnish Goyal DCE New Delhi

53 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 24 Mr Ranjit Gadgil PARISAR Pune 25 Mr. Lokesh Hebbani IISc Bangalore 26 Mr. Gaurav Bansal ICCT Washington 27 Ms Aditi Sinha Shakti Foundation New Delhi 28 Neha Agrawal Mensentock Communications New Delhi 29 Abhinav Garg The Times of India New Delhi 30 Raju Yadav Creative Wings New Delhi 31 Koshy Cherail AEEE New Delhi

Minute-to-Minute program 10:00 am – 04:30 pm

10:00 am Registration

New avenues in research and technology

Alternative-Fuelled Low Emissions vehicles 10:15 am - 10:45 am Dr. L M Das, Professor, Centre for Energy Studies , IIT, New Delhi Solar Automobile Technology: Exploring new avenues 10:45 am-11:15 am Dr. J.P. Kesari, Asst Professor. Mech. Engg. (Solar Power), DTU

11:15 am - 11:30 pm Tea Break

Air quality studies: Need for emission factors for PM 11:30 am-12:00 pm Dr. Anubha Goel, Asst Professor, IIT, Kanpur

12:00 pm-12:30 pm Introducing New Technologies in India: Issues and Concerns Mr S M Ghosh, Environment technologist, Kolkata

12:30 pm-01:00 pm Experience Sharing by participants

01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break

Role of Media and CSOs

Media Reporting on Sustainable Urban Transport Issues 02:00 pm - 03:00 pm Ms Keya Acharya, President, Forum of Environment Journalists of India (FEJI) Advocating Sustainable Urban Transport System : Role of Media & CSOs 03:00pm – 04:00 pm Mr Jayanta Basu, Sr journalist, The Telegraph, Kolkata

04:00 pm-04:30 pm Open Forum (Followed by High Tea)

BuildingBuilding Media Media and and CSO CSO Support Support on on Vehicles Vehicles and and Fuel Fuel Efficiency Efficiency 54 Excerpts from sessions

Prospects of Hydrogen as a sustanable low emission alternative fuel for transport sector Prof. L. M. Das Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi The present economic and environmental crisis makes it extremely important to focus on alternative fuels. “We need alternative fuels since the conventional fuel used produces massive amount of emissions causing widespread degradation of air quality. Also, it is also important to get alternative fuel because the oil used at the moment won’t last forever,” said Prof Das from IIT. He put forward several options of alternative fuels available to us such as Hydrogen, Compressed Natural Gas(CNG), Bio-Diesel, Hydrogen Added Natural Gas, Ethanol, Methanol, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Biogas etc. He has been working for over three decades on developing Hydrogen engines. He informed that a major step in this direction is the HCNG. HCNG is a general term used to denote varying blends of Hydrogen and CNG. Adding Hydrogen, which has higher flame speed to a low flame speed fuel like CNG, improves the combustion efficiency of the HCNG blend. He also talked about the development and successful demonstration of Hydrogen fuelled three-wheelers in the country.

An overview of need for Emission Factors for PM emissions from vehicles Dr. Anubha Goel Dept. Of Civil Eng. IIT Kanpur An air quality emission factor is the relationship between the amount of pollution produced and the amount of raw material processed or number of product units produced. Dr Goel, in her presentation talked about various studies undertaken in the recent past on air quality measurement and informed that Kanpur has been identified as a city with ‘worst’ air quality in India by WHO 2012 – ahead of Delhi and Kolkatta. Based on a study conducted by IIT Kanpur she shared that Vehicular and Industrial emissions account for more than 50% of SPM in ambient air. She also informed about the concept of Air Quality Index (AQI), which converts the concentration of a pollutant among critical pollutants into a number by using a segmented linear equation (Sub-index of a pollutant). The concept was introduced in India during the CWG 2010 She concluded by emphasizing on the point that there are great opportunities to improve the emissions data measurement in India and more research needs to be conducted to better understand sources of transportation related emissions. Accurate measurements of emissions are critical to good AQMs.

55 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Tapping India’s Solar Energy Potential and Solar Auto- mobile Technology: Exploring New Avenues Dr J. P. Kesari Associate Professor, Delhi Technological University Indian prosperity needs increase in per capita energy consumption. As reserves of traditional sources of energy liek coal, oil and gas are depleting, solar energy comes with a lot of potential. He informed about the achievements made by his team at DTU in developing the futuristic solar cars. “So- laris is one of the most prestigious projects at DTU. We aim to develop new age solar cars, thereby marking a new beginning in the field of solar automobile technology.” The aim of the project includes (a) Develop easily available and low cost technology, (b) Gain practical experience in design and fabrication, (c) Represent India and Asia on a world platform, (d) Develop technical skills in the field of solar technology, dynamics, machine design, automobile design etc, (e) Develop technical skills of the Indian engineering students by providing them the technical know-how and giving them practical experience. Dr Kesari concluded by saying, “It is our aim that the work done here leads to the economical use of solar and other environmentally-friendly vehicles down the road.”

BS-V Compliant Transport Mr S M Ghosh Environment technologist, Kolkata Mr Ghosh, made two brief presentations during the workshop. His first presentation focused on the need to do a detailed environmental impact assessment and infrastructural development before implementation of clean tech/ alternative energy in the country. He discussed four major points in this regard, (a) Indian driving cycle & driving condition to be considered, (b) Minimum speed limit for high rpm vehicle to be followed, (c) BS-V compliant fuel to be delivered by the oil companies, and (d) Conformity on production by chassis & engine dynamo-meter are needed in the test benches at different rto / pvd inspection and maintenance centre. In his second presentation, interestingly titled as ‘silent killer in city of joy’, he talked about the increasing levels of air pollution in kolkata mega city, caused by the automobiles and the need to develop an effective action plan for the ”city of joy”. He said, “Kolkata needs a comperhensive action plan to combat air pollution. It is clear that pollution levels in the city are on the increase and like Delhi, Kolkata, will have to take steps to reduce motorisation, so that it can deal with congestion and pollution.”

BuildingBuilding Media Media and and CSO CSO Support Support on on Vehicles Vehicles and and Fuel Fuel Efficiency Efficiency 56 Media Reporting on Urban Transport Issues Ms Keya Acharya President, Forum of Environment Journalists of India Ms Acharya stressed on the need of better understanding and reporting of urban transport issues. She emphasised that at a time when the rate of urban growth is so high and the number of vehicles on roads is increasing tremendously, there is an urgent need to talk about its repercussions on environment and health as part of more sustained reporting. “You need to interlink your stories with multiple issues. For example if you are writing about level of air pollution, do add the health angle in the story to make it complete,” she told the participating journalists. Ms Acharya urged the participating journalists to positively take advantage of the freedom available in the country and write on the issues of national importance without any fear. “India is one of the few countries today where Press has enormous freedom. We can criticise our political leaders and government policies without any fear. I think we should bring to light in a free and fair manner issues related to air pollution, fuel efficiency and need for more stringent norms in the country. Press should act as a pressure group to bring the desired changes in policy making. ”

Role of Media and CSOs Mr Jayanta Basu Sr journalist, The Telegraph, Kolkata Mr Basu urged the CSOs to come forward and work closely with regional and national media to propagate information related to vehicular pollution, air quality and impact on health based on scientific data and research. “We need scientific information to write good stories or launch a campaign. Research organisations and CSOs can be of immense help in this regard,” he said. A senior environment journalist with The Telegraph, Mr Basu shared about the role played by media and judiciary in ensuring key environmental reforms are introduced in Kolkata. “For a period of three months on a sustained basis The Telegraph and other newspapers in Kolkata carried stories on vehicular pollution, use of toxic fuels and on several other issues. We highlighted the nexus that is resulting in the proliferation of toxic fuel in vehicles, which is severely harmful to health and environment. A feeling of great satisfaction for the entire media fraternity was when the High Court finally gave a directive in this regard,” he shared. Mr Basu also showed various stories to the participants that were given prime space in the newspaper.

57 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Open Forum The Open Forum was moderated by eminent journalist Mr Jayanta Basu from the Telegraph. He presented a 15 point comparative table and asked the media and CSO representatives to participate. In this exercise, participants were asked to give ranking out of 10 on several indicators of governance in their respective cities. These param- eters included issues like Public and Private Transport, Political and People Position- ing, Pollution free vehicles, extent of corruption, role played by Paper/media etc. This interactive exercise resulted in good participation and brain storming during the open forum. It also helped representatives of media and CSOs to know about the transport situation in not just about their own city but also about what is happening across major tier-2 and 3 cities in the country.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 58 5. Outputs The presentations given by the speakers were distributed among the participants in a CD. In addition contact details of the speakers and participants were shared for future interaction. Stories that appeared in print and online media after the workshop were also shared with the participants via email.

√ Presentations √ News stories √ Recent reports & weblinks of online resource material √ Database of journalists & CSOs

6. Outcomes • The series of Regional Workshops and Open Forum proved to be a comprehensive attempt aimed towards involving regional as well as national media and CSOs on a common platform. The workshops successfully resulted in initiating a dialogue on the issue of sustainable urban transport system among media and CSOs, which can now be taken forward in a more sustained way. • There was participation of media personnels from 20 states viz Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, W.Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bi- har, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhatisgarh, Sikkim, Manipur, Assam and 2 UTs i.e New Delhi and Chandigarh. • 74 media persons participated from English, Hindi as well as vernacular media. Infact, there was representation of all major print publications in the workshops. • 72 representatives of civil society groups participated. This included NGOs, RWA representatives, researchers, science teachers and students from environmental sciences and urban designs streams. • 32 experts from prominent national institutes including IITs, IISc, IITM, ICCT, TERI and participated. • There was balanced representation of English as well as vernacular media. • Senior journalists including Bureau Chiefs, resident editors and assistant editors of prominent news papers participated in the workshops. These included Ms Keya Acharya, President, Forum of Environmental Journalists in India (FEJI), Parag Karandikar, Resident Editor of Maharashtra Times, Rahul Chandawarkar, Resident Editor of Sakal Times, Sunil Mali, Asst Editor of Sakal and several others. • Representation of the automobile sector in the workshop added to the level of interaction and exchange of ideas. SIAM representatives from New Delhi as well as Bengaluru participated in the workshop.

59 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency • Several regional CSOs got the opportunity for the first time to participate in this kind of workshop. • CSOs shared about the work they are already doing in their respective cities and showed keen interest in further collaboration with like minded organisations. • Students of architecture, urban planning and engineering also participated in the workshop and shared their views. • For journalists from print media their interaction with experts from such diverse backgrounds provided them new information and data on issues like sustainable transport system, air quality emission norms, fuel efficiency etc. • The media workshops proved to be a good platform for networking and building professional contacts among experts, CSOs and journalists. • Analytical stories appeared in prominent publications on issues discussed during the workshops. Infact newspapers like The Times of India, Navbharat Times, Central Chronicle, DNA and Sakal carried stories on either Page 1 or provided substantial space to the issues of air quality and vehicular pollution. The topics that were covered ranged from Auto Fuel Policy, emission norms, air quality and its impact on health to problems in public transport system, air pollution, need for BRTS etc. Some journalists highlighted the local issues while others have provided a comparative analysis in their stories. ( Note: Media coverage is available in the Annexures )

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 60 7. Key Learning and Challenges Faced Major learnings from the project

• Discussions during the open forum showed that CSOs have limited knowledge about issues like fuel efficiency and emission norms. There is a strong need for conceptual clarity on these issues. • Regional CSOs have limited access to research findings, latest reports and data. Infact, they don’t have any communication network with big research organizations and NGOs and that’s why they operate in smaller geographical areas with limited information and knowledge. • Several participating CSOs were not working directly in the domain of fuel efficiency, emissions and clean vehicles and were mainly associated with issues like transport pollution, road safety and better public transport system. However, they showed keen interest in further expanding their scope of work. • Two major areas where regional CSOs and smaller NGOs need support are source of funding for new projects and technical/research support. • As smaller NGOs have good network with local authorities in their respective areas, they can be of immense help in organizing any on-ground awareness activities with them. • Journalists shared the need to have an interactive platform on internet where they can connect with experts instantly for their queries. Also, they were of the view that at present there is no mechanism to have a constant flow of information on urban transport issues from prominent research organizations and CSOs. • It was felt during the workshops, that there is a strong need to mobilize Journal- ists and CSOs to strongly push urban mobility in the public domain. The first step in this direction would be to bring clarity on most basic of the issues like technical differences related to fuel and emission related issues, need to distinguish between air pollutant emission standards and CO2 emission / fuel efficiency standards, need look at vehicle fuel efficiency rather than star rating, need to provide ULSD in the entire country and advancement of emission norms for the whole country and other interrelated issues. Further steps could be, creating a strong network, identifying issues for advocacy, awareness and an action plan. • Overall, conducting workshops for media and CSOs was a welcome attempt and it brought a large number of stakeholders on one platform. The interface created among journalists, NGOs and experts will prove productive in future and will enhance the quality of news stories as well as public discourses on urban transport issues.

61 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Major challenges faced

• The biggest challenge was to convince the participants from media and CSO that these workshops were not entirely technical in nature and content. As Issues like fuel-efficiency and NMT have not been able to occupy prominent place in main- stream media reporting, some editors were also hesitant, to nominate journalists for these workshops. However, when discussed in detail about the objective of these workshops and the issues/themes they agreed to send correspondents from the related beats. • As almost all the speakers gave their presentations in English, it was a bit difficult for participants from vernacular media to understand the data and technical details. • Though TERI, ICCT and other research organizations shared valuable data and insightful reports, however, journalists found it difficult to go through the technical details and transform them into simple news stories. It is required that research organizations share their key findings in a more crisp and simple format. • Overall, the workshops resulted in introducing the participants to several new issues and themes pertaining to urban mobility.

8. Collaboration • CMSR Consultants collaborated with International Council on Clean Transporta- tion (ICCT) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and took them on board as Knowledge Partners. • CMSR would be happy to also collaborate further with these and other prominent research bodies to disseminate relevant information among media and CSOs. • CMSR Consultants can extend its online knowledge management services for further deliberation on urban mobility issues.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 62 9. Way Forward

• The workshops were appreciated immensely by the experts, participating journalists and CSOs. It has resulted in the creation of a network of journalists, NGOs and experts, which now needs to be activated and engaged further. • Though, CMSR Consultants has already started disseminating the information/presentations/media reports among the participants, there is an urgent need to strengthen this mechanism of resource dissemination and virtual interaction. Google groups or any other platform via social media on internet can be created to keep the journalists and experts in touch and also to share story ideas. • Before starting with the next phase of activities, a system should be drawn to understand and track the current trend of reporting on urban transport issues in national and regional media. • CMSR Consultants can offer its services to regularly compile news stories in the form of monthly reports. This will act as a ready reference material for researchers and will also help in knowing the trend of media reporting on urban transport issues. • CMSR would be happy to organize on-ground activities in collaboration with media groups, RWAs, CSOs and youth groups to popularise public transport, cycling and road safety issues. • SSEF can commission developing audio-visual resource material like public service advertisements, short films and documentaries on urban transport issues. CMSR Consultants, has several empannelled filmmakers and production houses to under- take this kind of work.

63 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Annexure-1

Minute to Minute Programme An initiative supported by Organised by An initiative supported by CMSR Consultants fostering sustainable partnerships

Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: April 16-17, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: The Woodrose Club, 7th Phase, J P Nagar, Bengaluru

Day-1: April 16 (09:30 am – 04.30 pm) 09:30 am Registration Keynote Address 10:00 am Ms. Keya Acharya, President, Forum of Environmental Journalists in India (FEJI) Understanding Fuel Efficiency: The Current Scenario World Over 10:30 am - 11:00 am Mr Gaurav Bansal, Researcher, ICCT, Washington 11:00 am-11:30 am Tea break Emission standards and Vehicular technology 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Mr Sumit Sharma, Sr Fellow, TERI, New Delhi Vehicular Air Pollution and Its Impact on Health 12:00 pm-12:30 pm Mr Mahesh Kashyap,Consultant, CiSTUP, IISc, Bengaluru Clean Bus Fleet Programme 12:30 pm-01:00 pm Mr Sameera Kumar, Clean Air Asia, Bengaluru 01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break Challenges before the Automobile Industry 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Mr Anoop Bhat, SIAM, New Delhi Media reporting on Sustainable Urban Transport Issues 02:30pm – 03:00 pm Mr Subir Ghosh, Senior Editor, DNA, Bengaluru 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Tea Break 03:30 pm-04:00 pm Open Forum 04:00 pm – 04:30 pm Concluding Remarks

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Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: April 16-17, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: The Woodrose Club, 7th Phase, J P Nagar, Bengaluru

Day-2: April 17 (10:00 am – 04.00 pm) 10:00 am Registration 10:30 am Setting the context

Vehicular pollution management: A curse on urban living 10:45 am-11:15 am Prof V Jagannatha, Scientist and educationist 11:15 am - 11:45 pm Tea Break Vehicle Emissions: Need for more stringent standards 11:45 am-12:15 pm Mr Sumit Sharma, Sr Fellow, TERI, New Delhi

How CSOs can develop better media relations 12:15 pm-12:45 pm Mr Subir Ghosh, Senior Editor, DNA, Bengaluru

Understanding Fuel Efficiency and its importance 12:45 pm-01:15 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, Researcher, ICCT, Washington 01:15 pm-02:30 pm Lunch Break Need for awareness on vehicular air pollution and its impact on health 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm Mr Mahesh Kashyap, Consultant, IISc, Bengaluru 03:00 am - 03:15 pm Tea Break 03:15pm – 03:45 pm Open Forum 03:45 pm - 04:00 pm Concluding Remarks

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Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: June 04-05, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Baner Road, Pune Day-1: June 04 (10:00 am – 05.00 pm) 10:00 am Registration 10:30 am Welcome Note Role of Media: Print media reporting and other initiatives by media groups Media reporting on urban transport 10:45 am - 11:15 am Mr Parag Karandikar, Resident Editor, Maharashtra Times “Pune Bus Day” Initiative 11:15 am-11:45 am Mr Rahul Chandawarkar and Mr Sunil Mali (Sr editors-Sakal Group) 11:45 am-12:00 pm Tea break Air Quality: Issues and impact Air pollution: Measurement, impact and analysis 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Dr Elizabeth Abba, faculty, K.J.Somaiya College of Science & Commerce The System of Air Quality Forecasting and Researc (SAFAR) 12:30 pm - 01:00 pm h Dr Gufran Beig, Professor, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Air Pollution and its impact on health 01:00 pm-01:30 pm Dr Sundeep Salvi, Director, Chest Research Foundation 01:30 pm-02:30 pm Lunch Break Let’s know more about Fuel Efficiency and Emission norms Fuel Efficiency: The current scenario world over 02:30pm – 03:00 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, Researcher, ICCT Emission Norms: Need for more stringent measures 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Mr Ashok Sreenivas, Parisar 03:30 pm-03:45 pm Tea Break 03:45 pm – 04:450 pm Open Forum with journalists 04:45 pm -05:00 pm Concluding Remarks

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Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: June 04-05, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Baner Road, Pune

Day-2: June 05 (10:00 am – 04.00 pm) 10:00 am Registration 10:30 am Welcome Note Role of CSOs in Popularising Sustainable Urban Transport Issues 10:30 am - 11:15 am Mr Sujit Patwardhan, Trustee, Parisar 11:15 am - 11:30 pm Tea Break How CSOs Can Improve their PR and Media Relations 11:30 am-12:00 pm Mr K B Mariyanka, Director, Aikyaglobal Need for More Stringent Fuel Emission Standards 12:00 pm-12:30 pm Mr Ashok Sreenivas, Parisar Fuel Efficiency: The Current Scenario World Over 12:30 pm-01:00 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, Researcher, ICCT 01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break “Pune Bus Day”-A Case Study 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Ms Pranjali Deshpande Agashe, Prog. Lead, ITDP

CSR Initiatives to Promote Sustainable Urban Life in Cities 02:30pm – 03:00 pm Prof Mahesh Thakur, Trustee, CSR Pune 03:00 am - 03:15 pm Tea Break 03:15 pm -03: 45 pm Open Forum 03:45 pm-04:00 pm Concluding Remarks

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Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: July 26, 2013 (Fri) Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata

Date: July 26 (10:00 am – 05.00 pm) 10:00 am Registration 10:30 am Welcome Note

Cleaner Vehicles and Fuels for India: What are the Key Issues? 10:45 am - 11:15 am Mr Anup Bandivadekar, Program Director / India Lead, ICCT

Vehicular Emission Norms: Need for More Stringent Measures 11:15 am-11:45 am Mr Sumit Sharma, Sr Fellow, TERI

11:45 am - 12:00 pm Tea break Urban Transport Scenario in Kolkata-A case study 12:00 pm-12:30 pm Dr Sudakshina Gupta, Deptt of Economics, University of Calcutta

Excerpts from the study conducted by C-NES in North-East 12:30 pm-01:00 pm Ms Bhaswati Goswami, Communication Officer, C-NES 01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break Manipur Cycle Club : A unique initiative 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Mr James Mayengbam, Gen sec, Manipur Cycle Club Role of Media and CSOs 02:30pm – 03:00 pm Mr Jayanta Basu, Senior journalist, The Telegraph

03:00 pm - 04:30 pm Open Forum (moderated by Mr Jayanta Basu)

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm Concluding Remarks (Followed by high tea)

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Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: Aug 29-30, 2013 (Thu-Fri) Venue: Maple, India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi

Day-1: Aug 29 (10:00 am – 05.00 pm) 10:00 am Registration 10:30 am-10:45 am Welcome Note

Opening Session 10:45 am - 11:15 am Prof. S Sundar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI, New Delhi 11:15 am-11:30 am Tea break Road Safety –Issues and Best Practices 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Mr Lokesh Hebbani, CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Air Quality and its Impact on Health 12:00 am-12:30 pm Dr Sundeep Salvi, Director, Chest Research Foundation of India, Pune

12:30 pm-01:00 pm Experience Sharing by participants 01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break Non-Motorised Transport : Current scenario in Indian cities 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Dr Anvita Arora, CEO, Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans), New Delhi Cleaner fuels and vehicles: what are the key issues? 02:30pm – 03:00 pm Mr Gaurav Bansal, Researcher, ICCT, Washington D.C Sustainable Urban Transport: Issues and Myths 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Mr Ranjit Gadgil, Prog. Director, PARISAR, Pune 03:30 pm-04:30 pm Open Forum 04:30 pm – 05:00 pm Concluding Remarks (Followed by tea)

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Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: Aug 29-30, 2013 (Thu-Fri) Venue: Maple, India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi

Day-2: Aug 30 (10:00 am – 04.30 pm) 10:00 am Registration New avenues in research and technology 10:15 am - 10:45 am Alternative-Fuelled Low Emissions vehicles Dr. L M Das, Professor, Centre for Energy Studies , IIT, New Delhi

10:45 am-11:15 am Solar Automobile Technology: Exploring new avenues Dr. J.P. Kesari, Asst Professor. Mech. Engg. (Solar Power), DTU

11:15 am - 11:30 pm Tea Break 11:30 am-12:00 pm Air quality studies: Need for emission factors for PM Dr. Anubha Goel, Asst Professor, IIT, Kanpur 12:00 pm-12:30 pm Introducing New Technologies in India: Issues and Concerns Mr S M Ghosh, Environment technologist, Kolkata 12:30 pm-01:00 pm Experience Sharing by participants 01:00 pm-02:00 pm Lunch Break Role of Media and CSOs 02:00 pm - 03:00 pm Media Reporting on Sustainable Urban Transport Issues Ms Keya Acharya, President, Forum of Environment Journalists of India (FEJI) 03:00pm – 04:00 pm Advocating Sustainable Urban Transport System : Role of Media & CSOs Mr Jayanta Basu, Sr journalist, The Telegraph, Kolkata 04:00 pm-04:30 pm Open Forum (Followed by High Tea)

Knowledge partners Annexure-2

List of Participants Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: April 16-17, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: The Woodrose Club, 7th Phase, J P Nagar, Bengaluru

Day 1: List of Participants S.No Name Organisation Mobile Email City 1. Amrita Didyala Deccan Chronicle 9014167792 [email protected] Hyderabad 2. CVLN Prasad Andhra Jyothi 9985411873 [email protected] Hyderabad 3. K P M Basheer The Hindu 9447027293 [email protected] Kochi 4. Jency Samuel Freelance 9884031052 [email protected] Chennai 5. Sanjaya Raghunathan Dinakaran 9444391556 [email protected] Chennai 6. M S Kashinath Star of Mysore 9449495007 [email protected] Mysore 7. M Subrahamanyam Nagarbelaku News 9844788084 [email protected] Mysore 8. B.N. Pushparaja Vartha Bharathi 9448627450 [email protected] Mangalore 9. Merlin Francis The new Indian Express 9886178571 [email protected] Bengaluru 10. Ravikantha Kannada Prabha 9449612727 Bengaluru 11. Ullash Kumar Freelance 9986712532 [email protected] Bengaluru 12. Aishwarya S DNA 8951408599 [email protected] Bengaluru 13. S Sridhar Bangalore Mirror 9341126214 [email protected] Bengaluru 14. G Manju Sainath Deccan Herald 9535570330 [email protected] Bengaluru 15. Vasanthi Hariprakash Freelance 9845540432 [email protected] Bengaluru 16. Yogesh Kumar Independent Researcher 7829120064 [email protected] Bengaluru 17. Kunal Singh Independent Researcher 9036284664 [email protected] Bengaluru 18. Atanu Ganguli SIAM 24647810 [email protected] New Delhi 19. Raju M Toyota Kirloskar 9591112701 [email protected] Bengaluru 20. M Kobayashi Toyota Motors 7760965646 Bengaluru Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: April 16-17, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: The Woodrose Club, 7th Phase, J P Nagar, Bengaluru Day 2: List of Participants

S.No Name Organisation Email City

1. Vasantha Kumar Mysore Math 9845950440 Mysore 2. Raja K. Save our Earth Club 9964346202 Mysore 3. Sanjay Save our Earth Club 9886168589 Mysore 4. Nazia Anjum CMAK 9880697974 Bengaluru 5. Kumuda C CMAK 7471602578 Bengaluru 6. Srilatha CMAK 9902341609 Bengaluru 7. Prashant Kumar Akshaya Patra Foundation 8794942822 Bengaluru 8. Vivek Viswam Akshaya Patra Foundation 9844787080 Bengaluru 9. Ashwin EVI 9880012154 Bengaluru 10. Rajvi CSD 9686098598 Bengaluru 11. Lokesh Hebbani CiSTUP 9535097356 Bengaluru 12. Alok Kumar Researcher Bengaluru 13. Vijetha R Gatta Toyota 9449788072 Bengaluru 14. M Kohoyashi Toyota 7760965646 Bengaluru 15. Atanu Ganguli SIAM 011-24647810 New Delhi 16. Anoop Bhat Maruti Suzuki 9810502687 New Delhi 17. Yogesh Kumar Independent Researcher 7829120064 Bengaluru 18. Kunal Singh Independent Researcher 9036284664 Bengaluru 19. Raju M Toyota Kirloskar 9591112701 Bengaluru 20. Ravikantha Kannada Prabhaw 9449612727 Bengaluru Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: June 04-05, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Baner Road, Pune Day 1: List of Participants

S.No Name Organisation Mobile Email City 1. Gerard De Souza Oheraldo 97658 53312 [email protected] Goa 2. Jitendra Pradyumanbhai Dave DNA India 99250 02127 [email protected] Ahmedabad 3. Bhavesh Brahmankar Maharashtra Times 94234 79348 [email protected] Nashik 4. Amresh Jashmukray Shah Daily Pratidin 98900 07343 [email protected] Wardha 5. Basit Mohsin Lokmat 98503 04254 [email protected] Aurangabad 6. Santosh Mahadev Mithari Lokmat 99224 38388 [email protected] Kolhapur 7. Yogesh M. Chiwande Dainik Bhaskar 94236 78845 [email protected] Nagpur 8. Shailesh Malode All India Radio 98509 09635 [email protected] Nashik 9. Hari Narayan Sharma Dainik Bhaskar 98266 67121 [email protected] Indore 10. Sandeep Nirkhiwale Swadesh 98260 31670 [email protected] Indore 11. Dr. Santosh Patidar Business Standard 94066 28600 [email protected] Indore 12. Shaikh Abdul Wajid Maharashtra Times 99229 41691 [email protected] Aurangabad 13. Neha S. Parkhi Program Officer Pune 14. Vinayak Pund Punyanagari 99229 61871 [email protected] Nagpur 15. Manish Umbrajkar Tiimes of india 98810 98339 [email protected] Pune 16. Nupur Dixit Patrika 92296 86333 [email protected] Indore 17. Archana Singh Lokmat Samachar 99604 72539 [email protected] Nagpur 18. Suneet Bhave Maharashtra Times 98223 74469 [email protected] Pune 19. Nitin Brahme Vedh Content & Communication 98819 04953 [email protected] Pune 20. Neha Ghatpande Vedh Content & Communication 84120 65900 [email protected] Pune 21. Abhay Khairnar Sakal Times 88888 48891 [email protected] Pune 22. Rajil Menon Freelancer 90111 40140 [email protected] Mumbai 23. Avinash Satdive Student [email protected] Pune 24. Bhausaheb Kamble Student [email protected] Pune 25. Jeevan Narayandas Ramawat Lokmat 97647 17566 [email protected] Nagpur Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: June 04-05, 2013 (Tue-Wed) Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Baner Road, Pune

Day 2: List of Participants S.No Name Organisation Mobile Email City 1. Chandrashekhar Bhondure MVBGSS 94040 86685 [email protected] Nagpur 2. Naresh Tagade MVBGSS 8485012366 Nagpur 3. Kiran B. Sahyadri Foundation 9766113319 Nagpur 4. Vijay Kshirsagar Sahyadri Foundation 9860998971 [email protected] Nagpur 5. Amar Nath CEE 90285 32347 [email protected] Pune 6. Saahil Waslekar University of Mumbai 98206 40803 [email protected] Pune 7. Rajendra Sidhaye SPTM 98220 67584 [email protected] Pune 8. Shrinivas Rairikar MCCIA 98222 04516 [email protected] Pune 9. Madhukesh Freelancer Pune 10. Rushikesh R. Sankpal University of Pune 99700 49554 [email protected] Pune 11. Vidiba Mundada University of Pune, BNCA 98234 26514 [email protected] Pune 12. Pavithra Lakshmi University of Pune, BNCA 91588 99745 [email protected] Pune 13. Ar. Ninad Jog VK-E 99757 09226 [email protected] Pune 14. Ashutosh Parisar 99725 95154 [email protected] Pune 15. Anup Awasthi Govt. School Pune 16. Megha Bilgi BNCA 97664 80919 [email protected] Pune 17. Rutvi Ashar BNCA 97664 80919 [email protected] Pune 18. Prashant Inamdar Pedestrian First 98229 12041 [email protected] Pune 19. Ranjit Gadgil Parisar 88050 27186 [email protected] Pune 20. Komal Patdar Janwani 99604 40595 [email protected] Pune Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: July 26, 2013 (Fri) Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata

List of Participants S.No Name Organisation Mobile E-mail City 1. Rituparna Mallick Jadavpur University 090073 41034 [email protected] Kolkata 2. Jonathan Woods Jadavpur University 078902 65254 [email protected] Kolkata 3. Sayani Basu 098312 59782 [email protected] Kolkata 4. Nirmal Mangar Sikkim Express 9860998971 [email protected] Gangtok 5. Jagannath Rout 094398 64821 [email protected] Bhubneshwar 6. Patitapaban Sahu Dharitri 098611 33181 [email protected] Bhubneshwar 7. Amarjyoti Borah DTE 098649 80629 Guwahati 8. S.M. Ghosh SHG - HAI 092313 80855 [email protected] Kolkata 9. Yogesh Mishra Central Chronicle 098261 26002 [email protected] Raipur 10. Gangesh Dwivedi Nai Dunia 088176 88853 [email protected] Raipur 11. Banani Bindhani CNCI 094339 40806 [email protected] Kolkata 12. Hirak Saha CNCI 082964 91366 [email protected] Kolkata 13. Mausumi Pal CEMPD 098312 60287 [email protected] Kolkata 14. M. Mazumdar CEMPD 098364 30055 [email protected] Kolkata 15. Abhishek Kumar Hindustan 098352 03258 [email protected] Patna 16. Subhash Pathak Hindustan Times 094311 76666 [email protected] Patna 17. Mrityunjay Prasad Ranchi Express 094313 89208 [email protected] Ranchi 18. Alok Prasad Dainik Bhaskar 099051 91916 [email protected] Ranchi 19. Shatabdi Das Calcutta University 080173 94297 [email protected] Kolkata 20. Aratrika Mukherjee Jadavpur University 098362 11776 Kolkata 21. Manas Chaterjee IYCN 097757 60161 Kolkata 22. Aparajita Mukherjee C.U.E.S 098364 78474 [email protected] Kolkata Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: Aug 29-30, 2013 (Thu-Fri) Venue: Maple, India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi

Day 1: List of Participants S.No Name Organisation Mobile Email City 1. Neha Agrawal Mensentock Communications 99100 65014 [email protected] New Delhi 2. Fahim Khan Amar Ujala 96758 35430 [email protected] .com Agra 3. Nasir Hussain Hindustan 95572 33373 [email protected] Agra 4. Santosh Shukla Dainik Jagran 94502 10383 [email protected] Meerut 5. Sumit Sharma TERI 98998 90077 [email protected] New Delhi 6. Pinaki Dasgupta IYCN 98739 35480 [email protected] New Delhi 7. Mukti Advani CRRI 98189 69191 [email protected] New Delhi 8. Subhransu Panda SAMBAD 93386 55845 [email protected] Bhubaneshwar 9. Athar Parvaiz Freelancer 94190 71620 [email protected] Srinagar 10. Suresh. K The Hindu 92465 83999 [email protected] Hyderabad 11. Pooja Goyal Punjab Kesari 80545 32675 [email protected] Chandigarh 12. Kailash Korde HT 98704 57839 [email protected] Mumbai 13. Koshy Cherail AEEE 99106 95700 [email protected] New Delhi 14. Varun Singh Himvani.com 98055 10111 [email protected] Dharamshala 15. Siddharth MAPNG 2335 7563 New Delhi 16. Nitin Yadav Amar Ujala, Meerut 83929 22199 [email protected] Meerut 17. Durgesh Nandan Jha The Times of India 99112 82783 [email protected] New Delhi 18. N K Sagar Topix 98109 74622 [email protected] New Delhi 19. Bappaditya Chatterjee Business Economics 94774 86761 [email protected] Kolkata 20. Jagdish C. Bhatt Hotel Parkland 98110 12541 [email protected] New Delhi 21. Saurabh Public News 99687 35546 [email protected] New Delhi 22. Satish News Today 98918 98777 [email protected] New Delhi 23. Himani Jain Shakti Foundation [email protected] New Delhi 24. Shilpa Kharwal Shakti Foundation 84476 03602 [email protected] New Delhi 25. Anand Mani Tripathi Rajasthan Patrika 82901 6770 [email protected] Jaipur 26. Arunav Sinha The Times of India 94531 74563 [email protected] Lucknow 27. Varun Tamta Yuva Manch 95651 21999 [email protected] Lucknow 28. Abhijit Ghorpade Loksatta, Pune 098228 40436 [email protected] Pune 29. Dipak Dash The Times of India 99109 00163 [email protected] New Delhi 30. Manish Kumar IIT, Kanpur 87657 76535 Gurgaon 31. Mr S M Ghosh SMG – HAI 92313 80855 [email protected] Kolkata 32. Ms Keya Acharya FEJI 98450 14070 [email protected] Bangalore 33. Dr. L M Das IIT, Delhi 98681 12900 [email protected] New Delhi Workshop and Open Forum for Media and CSOs on Fuel Efficiency Dates: Aug 29-30, 2013 (Thu-Fri) Venue: Maple, India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi

Day 2: List of Participants

S.No Name Organisation Mobile E-mail City 1. Bappaditya Chatterjee Business Economics 94774 86761 [email protected] Kolkata 2. Athar Parvaiz IPS 94190 71620 [email protected] Srinagar 3. Pinaki Dasgupta IYCN 98739 35480 [email protected] New Delhi 4. Santosh Shukla Dainik Jagran 94502 10383 [email protected] Meerut 5. Subhransu Panda SAMBAD 93386 55845 [email protected] Bhubaneshwar 6. Suresh. K The Hindu 92465 83999 [email protected] Hyderabad 7. Fahim Khan Amar Ujala 96758 35430 [email protected] .com Agra 8. Varun Tamta Yuva Manch 95651 21999 [email protected] Lucknow 9. Arunav Sinha The Times of India 94531 74563 [email protected] Lucknow 10. Jagdish C. Bhatt Hotel Parkland 98110 12541 [email protected] New Delhi 11. Pooja Goyal Punjab Kesari 80545 32675 [email protected] Chandigarh 12. Nasir Hussain Hindustan 95572 33373 [email protected] Agra 13. Kailash Korde HT 98704 57839 [email protected] Mumbai 14. Abhijit Ghorpade Loksatta, Pune 98228 40436 [email protected] Pune 15. Y. N. Pandey 85270 77289 [email protected] New Delhi 16. Shilpa Kharwal Shakti Foundation 84476 03602 [email protected] New Delhi 17. N K Sagar Topix 98109 74027 [email protected] New Delhi 18. Nitin Yadav Amar Ujala, Meerut 83929 22199 [email protected] Meerut 19. Anshu Tyagi Rashtriya Sanskriti 99100 63251 [email protected] New Delhi 20. Prashant Kumar Singh DCE 87502 80427 [email protected] New Delhi 21. Anav Malik DCE 90134 34384 [email protected] New Delhi 22. Anurag Arya DCE 97118 27939 [email protected] New Delhi 23. Lavnish Goyal DCE 85060 75007 [email protected] New Delhi 24. Mr Ranjit Gadgil PARISAR 88050 27186 [email protected] Pune 25. Mr. Lokesh Hebbani IISc 95350 97356 [email protected] Bangalore 26. Mr. Gaurav Bansal ICCT 78388 71692 [email protected] Washington 27. Ms Aditi Sinha Shakti Foundation [email protected] New Delhi 28. Neha Agrawal Mensentock Communications 99100 65014 [email protected] New Delhi 29. Abhinav Garg Times of India 98181 44121 [email protected] New Delhi 30. Raju Yadav Creative Wings 99999 40046 [email protected] New Delhi Annexure-3

Short Biography of Speakers The Regional Worrkshops and Open Forum saw engaging participation of eminent journalists, scientists, educationists and researchers. A brfief bio of the speakers is given below:

Mr Anoop Bhat General Manager, Maruti Suzuki Mr Bhat has been working with Maruti Suzuki for almost two decades now. He works on Engine Development with a vision to improve the performance from the existing ones and come up with new technologies for future. His specialties include Engine testing and Vehicle Integration. He is a gold medalist in Engineering from Kurukshetra University.

Dr. Anubha Goel Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engg.; EEM IDP, IIT Kanpur Dr Goel is teaching in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. She has done her M.Tech. from I.I.T. Kanpur, and Ph.D. from Univer- sity of Maryland. Her areas of research include characterization of emissions from vehicular exhaust, size segregated distribution of par- ticulates and organic pollutants on aerosols, Environmental modeling, Fate and transport of pollutants and Solid Waste Management.

Dr Anup Bandivadekar Program Director / India Lead Dr. Bandivadekar’s interests are focused around developing frame- works and methods to foster innovative solutions towards achieving a more sustainable energy and transportation system. At the ICCT, his work is aimed at reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles globally. Previously, he was a post- doctoral fellow in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory at MIT, where he evaluated vehicle and fuel technologies that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum consumption from the U.S. light-duty fleet over the next thirty years. Dr Anvita Arora Director and CEO, Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans), New Delhi Dr. Arora is an Architect and Transport Planner and completed her PhD thesis on Socio-Economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) methodol- ogy for Urban Transport Projects: Impact of Delhi Metro on the Urban Poor, from the Civil Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2007. She is also the India Representative of Interface for Cycling Expertise, I-CE, Netherlands and President of the Global Feet and Fiets Foundation, Netherlands. Mr Ashok Sreenivas Consultant, Parisar Mr Sreenivas has a Bachelors and Doctorate in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay. He worked as a scientist for over 15 years in one of India’s leading industrial software research labs, before moving to the social sector. He works on policy research and analysis aimed at governance and regulatory issues related to transparency, fairness, equity and sustainability and currently focuses on the Natural Gas sector.

Ms Bhaswati Goswami Communications Officer, Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research(C-NES) Ms Goswami did her masters in Ancient Indian History from Delhi Uni- versity in 1991 and works as Communications Officer in C-NES. She is a member of the Programme Management Unit (PMU)of the organization.In March 2013 she made a presentaion on C-NES’ unique Boat Clinic health outreach programme at Boston’s Tufts University at the yearly Global Health Symposium.

Ms Elizabeth Abba Faculty, K.J.Somaiya College of Science & Commerce Ms Abba is a senior faculty in the Department of Environmental Sci- ence at K.J.Somaiya College of Science & Commerce. Priot to this she was a senior research fellow at NEERI, Mumbai. She was also selected as the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship Scholar - 2008 to pur- sue research at San Diego State University, California.

Mr Gaurav Bansal Researcher, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Mr Bansal is a researcher on the ICCT’s India team focusing on passenger vehicles research and policy analysis, health effects modeling, and emissions modeling. Before joining the ICCT, he served in the Peace Corps in Panama as an environmental health extensionist. He holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Texas and an M.S. in environmental engineering from Virginia Tech.

Dr. Gufran Beig Scientist-F, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Dr Beig is a senior scientist at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorol- ogy, IITM, Pune. He is also the reciepient of prestigious Shanti Swar- up Bhatnagar Award for outstanding scientific contributions. Dr Beig is a member of several International scientific organisations dealing with global climate change and also an editor of the Journal of Atmo- spheric and Solar Terrestrial physics.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 68 Dr. J.P. Kesari Faculty Head, Solaris, Delhi Technological University Dr. Kesari is the faculty advisor of Solaris Project. It is a recognized student-faculty run research project at Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) initiated in the year 2006. The project aims at developing a highly efficient solar electric vehicle to provide a breakthrough in the application of solar technology to the transportation sector. Prime goal of the project is the development of an energy efficient passenger SEV suitable for Indian roads.

Mr James Mayengbam Gen sec, Manipur Cycle Club Mr Mayengbam works actively in the Manipur Cycle Club (MCC). The club has the motto “Cycle for Health, Environment and Economy (CHEE)”. Members of MCC strive to work as agents of and models for social change fine tuning with the global processes and locally with the diversities and integrative natures of local culture, geography, preserving the hill-valley ecological relationships and affecting policy changes that ensures sustainable development for future generations.

Mr Jayanta Basu Senior Journalist, The Telegraph Mr Basu is a Kolkata based specialised environment correspondent with The Telegraph newspaper. He has been writing on environment for more than a decade and has covered number of important environment and climate change related intentional conferences across the world. He was also nominated as member to several environment and climate change related media meetings held in countries like China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Recently Basu has been nominated as a member of an international delegation on ‘Ganga Meckong Dialogue’ and participated in a deliberation held in Thailand and Laos.

Ms Keya Acharya President, Forum of Environmental Journalists in India (FEJI) Ms Acharya is an independent journalist and researcher, who has been writing exclusively on environment and development for many years and has various national and international publications to her credit. She also teaches development journalism and development issues to media students in Bangalore, where she is based and has conducted several media training workshops. Keya has travelled extensively in the course of her journalism assignments, reporting from various countries on subjects as diverse as solid and hazard- ous wastes, to human rights, corruption, forestry and wildlife, climate change, agribiotech and others.

69 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Mr Krishna B Mariyanka Co-founder and director of Aikya Global Mr Mariyanka is a leading events, media, brand & marketing consultant in the global public relations and communication industry. He is the former corporate communication advisor at Shell Technology In- dia (A subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell Group). In the past, has been governing council director and national vice president of Public Rela- tions Council of India (PRCI) and has also been an active member of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

Dr L.M. Das Professor, Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi Dr. Das’s primary areas of research interest include development of alternative-fuelled low emission engine/vehicles. He has published more than 80 research papers in various independently refereed international and national journals in the area of alternative fuels such as Hydrogen, CNG, Biodiesel and Hydrogen-CNG blend. Today he is actively involved in several sponsored research projects and has su- pervised 14 PhD theses (with ten more in progress), and about forty M. Tech Projects in his areas of interest.

Mr Lokesh Hebbani Transportation Program Manager, (CiSTUP), IISc Mr Hebbani has held leadership positions in several national and international projects in the transport sector. He is advisor to Gov- ernment of India on Technology Vision -2035 for Infrastructure. Also, he took leadership role in the Development and implementation of the successful Traffic Incident Management Program in the States of Florida, Wisconsin & Georgia. Mr Hebbani holds an M.B.A degree from Marquette University, Wisconsin, U.S.A. and M.S. in Transporta- tion & Civil Engineering, from University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo- ming, U.S.A.

Mr Mahesh Kashyap Independent Consultant, (CiSTUP) Mr Kashyap is an independent consultant and has worked with various national and international organisations. He was formerly with the Department of Environment, Government of Canada, working on various air pollution issues. Prior to joining Government of Canada, he was in various levels of consulting services in USA advising clients on air quality issues. He has a wide range of experience in environmental and transportation affairs.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 70 Prof Mahesh Thakur Trustee, CSRPune Prof Thakur is a full-time faculty of HR and Social Work with Karve Institute Of Social Service, Pune. His areas of focus include Human Resource Management / HRD Practices, Corporate Planning and Strategic HRM, Labour and Managerial Economics and Adminis- tration and Management for Social Work. For three years he has worked as Hon. Director of Child –Line Pune and he was also the Task force member of the Child Labour abolition Project of NCPL.

Mr Parag Karandikar Resident Editor, Maharashtra Times Mr Karandikar is a senior journalist and has worked with Sakal Me- dia group for more than 15 years. Subsequently he joined the Times Group and is currently the Resident Editor of Maharashtra Times in Pune. He has received several prestigious awards in his distinguished career including Late Varunraj Bhide Award, Dr Nanasa- heb Parulekar award, Rotary Award and Best Journalist Award by Poona Mechant Chambers.

Ms Pranjali Deshpande Program Lead, Pune, ITDP Ms Pranjali joined ITDP in June 2009 and is currently assisting with operational planning for the Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad BRT system. Prior to joining ITDP, she was associated with an architecture firm and worked on large-scale industrial projects. She has completed her undergraduate studies in architecture at Bharatiya Kala Prasari- ni Sabha’s College of Architecture in Pune, and earned a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT University.

Mr Rahul Chandawarkar Resident Editor, Sakal Times Mr Chandawarkar is a senior journalist based in Pune. Prior to joining Sakal Group he was an assistant editor with the Daily News and Analysis (DNA). He was recently awarded the Ramnath Goenka ex- cellence in journalism award for environmental reporting by the Vice President of India. He received the award for running multiple campaigns on the eco-degradation of the hill stations of Mahabalesh- war-Panchgani near Pune in DNA newspaper.

71 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Mr Ranjit Gadgil Prog. Director, Parisar, Pune Mr Gadgil graduated from IIT Kanpur with a Masters in Physics before going to Cornell University for further studies. He then worked as an IT consultant for 7 years before returning to India in pursuit of something more meaningful. Ranjit served as Programme Director of Janwani, where he launched several urban governance projects. He worked briefly with an international foundation as their transport programme officer. Ranjit’s current interest is non-motorized transport.

Prof S. Sundar Distinguished Fellow, TERI Mr Sundar, an alumnus of the University of Madras; serves as Distin- guished Fellow at TERI and as the NTPC Chair Professor on Regula- tory Studies at TERI University. Prior to joining TERI, Mr Sundar was with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) to which he was appoint- ed to in 1963; where he held senior positions in industry and finance with both the State of Gujarat and the Government of India. He also serves as Honarary Professor, CEPT University, Ahmedabad and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Univer- sity of Toronto

Mr S.M. Ghosh Chairman, Smg-Hai Technocrats Mr Ghosh is an environmentalist & green technologist engaged in pollution control technologies since 1990. He invented smg - hai technology in 1990 and got the intellectual property right from govt of india & people republic of bangladesh in 1993 for complete combustion of fuel in i c engine - while in operation. He has also worked with the world bank as chief surveyor under dfid project on automobile pollution in the year 1995/1997, on behalf of environment department, govt of west bengal.

Mr Sameera Kumar Anthapur Transport researcher, Clean Air Asia Mr Anthapur has been working with Clean Air Asia (formerly Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities) for the past two years. Clean Air Asia aims to promote better air quality and livable cities by translating knowledge to policy and action to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. He is working on projects related to sustainable transport and has a particular interest in NMT and safety.

Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency 72 Mr Subir Ghosh Senior Editor, DNA-Bangalore Mr Ghosh is one of the senior journalists in the country today who have been working in the field of environment consistently for several years. In his journalistic career he has worked with prominent newspapers and agencies including Press Trust of India (PTI) and The Telegraph. He also had a brief stint in the books unit of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and has also looked after the publications section of the Wildlife Trust of India.

Dr Sudakshina Gupta Department of Economics , Calcutta University Dr Gupta teaches at the Centre for Urban Economic Studies and her area of specialisation is Transport economics. For the last quarter of a century, the Centre has established itself as a premier multi- disciplinary research centre of urban studies in India. A number of dissertations done under the guidance of faculty members have been awarded M.Phil and Ph.D degrees. The Centre also publishes books, monographs, discussion papers and database for urban studies.

Mr Sujit Patwardhan Trustee, Parisar Mr Patwardhan is a founder member and Trustee of Parisar since its inception in 1982. He has driven Parisar’s efforts to bring issues of environment centre-stage -through citizens’ campaigns, collaborative activism with other like minded organisations and advocacy efforts to highlight the need to ensure industrial and urban development does not lead to damage and destruction of the environment.

Mr Sumit Sharma Fellow & Area Convenor, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Mr Sharma is Fellow at Centre for Environmental Studies at The En- ergy and Resources Institute (TERI). The broad aim of the Centre for Environmental Studies is to carry out research activities in evalu- ating the environmental impacts of various economic activities and resource use patterns. The Centre has been active in various urban, industrial, and rural settings to study the linkages between various

73 Building Media and CSO Support on Vehicles and Fuel Efficiency Dr. Sundeep Salvi Director, Chest Research foundation Dr Salvi is the Director of the Chest Research Foundation, a state- of-the art research institute dedicated to research and education in the field of respiratory diseases, with a major focus on Obstructive Airways Diseases. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial Col- lege, London, a Visiting Faculty at the Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD guide at the University of Pune.

Prof V Jagannathan Scientist and educationist For more than two decades Prof Jagannathan has worked as a Scien- tist/Engineer in the environmental engineering and Sanitation works of planning, design, estimation, execution and maintenance of infrastructure facilities for Space centres in India. He has also worked as a Professor in the training and capacity building of urban local bodies functionaries in Karnataka.

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