Urban Reality: How can India’s cities be decongested?

When you live in a city where a public health emergency is declared for the past 3 years, with pollution levels crossing 70 times of the safe limit, any step big or small to ease air pollution and congestion is hugely welcome one.

This week, Delhi saw two major expressways thrown open – with a promise to cut down on air pollution and congestion – The Eastern Peripheral Expressway and the first 9 km stretch of the Delhi-Merut Expressway. The good news is that both have been implemented with several inbuilt sustainable solutions.