Abstract
WHAT IS the most immediate tool of empowerment you can provide a person? Ask an economist. Or ask a laborer who has been moved to the outskirts of the city as a part of the big-progressive resettlement scheme. Or ask a student. The most likely answer you will get is: TRANSPORT, right? So while it is agreed by almost all the people that a smooth travel from point A to point B is what empowers people in the most instantaneous way, it is also agreed, more or less, that state of transport in Delhi today is not what one would call ideal. Certainly not that of an aspiring superpower's capital in any case.Ok. So far, so good. We all agree that there's something amiss in the transport infrastructure in Delhi today. That something needs to be done. And that's where the factions begin. What needs to be done? How? Should we aim for universal car ownership, or divert our resources towards a better public transport? Should the state take responsibility or should it be left to the private sector, in either case? What do we mean by public transport? Pumping more money into the metro rail, or investing in bus services? Should we once again involve the free market after the blue line fiasco? But, was blue line free market at all actually, to begin with?These and other such questions are what I hope to explore through this paper which aims at looking at the things which are wrong and right with the system today and ends with humble suggestions with what can be done to set it right.
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