On 8 May 2020 at 14:00 (CEST), the World Resources Institute (WRI) is hosting a webinar on 'Resilience and Transportation: Lessons from India while responding to COVID-19'.
This webinar series will explore the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in how transportation agencies and governments around the world have been acting to address the challenge that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to their transportation systems, and specifically what implications these actions will have in their longer-term resiliency plans and actions.
In this second webinar focused on India, three high-level experts will discuss the situation regarding transport and mobility, the actual consequences of the strict measures taken by the government, and the lessons learned so far.
India's nationwide lockdown imposed on 24 March halted all but essential services, sparking an exodus of migrant workers and people who survive on daily wages out of India's cities and towards villages in rural areas. At the same time, part of the country’s population, which last year headed the charts of the most polluted cities as home to 14 of the 20 cities with the most dangerous air, was able, for the first time in decades, to see the Himalayas due to the sky's clearness. The lockdown is expected to end on 3 May.
Speakers:
- O.P. Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), WRI, India
- Laghu Parashar, Senior Technical Advisor, GIZ India
- Sarika Panda Bhatt, Associate Director, Nagarro & co-founder, Raahgiri Foundation