NAGPUR: The city is one of the three in the country to be selected for a
European Union (EU) funded ‘Mobilize Your City’ (MYC) project aimed at reducing
greenhouse gas emissions related to urban transport. The other two cities for the MYC pilot are Ahmedabad and Kochi.
India and France signed the MYC implementation agreement in New Delhi on Thursday in the presence of minister of state for housing and urban affairs (MoHUA)
Hardeep Singh Puri and Alexander Ziegler, Ambassador of France in India. It was signed by Mukund Kumar Sinha, OSD, ex officio joint secretary, while regional director, Agence Française de Développement (AfD), Nicolas Fornage, signed on behalf of AfD.
MYC is part of an international initiative which is supported by the French and the German governments and was launched at 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting in December, 2015. Based on a proposal made by AfD, the European Union has agreed to provide Euro 3.5 million for technical assistance in the project.
MYC aims at implementing urban mobility plans at local level and to help India to improve its sustainable transport policy.
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