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A delegation of apical officials from the Railway Board and Southern Railway visited Auroville to springiness signifier to an electric-powered artifact bid project.
A property enactment said the squad conducted an extended tract sojourn and readying league with Auroville representatives successful a bid to formally motorboat the task coinciding with the expected sojourn of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Puducherry connected March 1.
The officials discussed the motorboat logistics, laying a symbolic instauration chromatic astatine the designated site, showcasing a sculpture made from railway scrap to commemorate the concern and integer show utilizing 3D graphics and video prototypes to contiguous the project’s imaginativeness during the authoritative ceremony.
The collaborative task for evolving sustainable and child-centric municipality mobility aims to integrate Indian Railways’ world-class engineering with Auroville’s unsocial eco-urban vision, Auroville said.
Joining the discussions virtually, Jayanti S. Ravi, Secretary, Auroville Foundation and Additional Chief Secretary, Gujarat, emphasised the request to motorboat the task with a robust and well-defined framework.
She urged the squad to absorption connected “concrete” details, ensuring that the task was not conscionable a novelty but a sustainable fixture of Auroville’s acquisition landscape. She besides sought absorption connected scaling the task to bespeak planetary standards portion staying existent to the township’s spiritual ethos and the visionary Galaxy Plan.
The Railway Board directors, Aashima Mehrotra and Rajesh Kumar, highlighted that the bid — intended for regular usage by children — indispensable travel the strict information protocols of the National Rail Museum. They projected a “time-tested” plan that ensures zero-risk operation.
The squad discussed however the battery-operated artifact bid aligns with the 1965 imaginativeness of a walkable city. Unlike accepted transport, this “e-rider” volition navigate done curated greenish zones, replacing invasive taxon with autochthonal flowering trees, efficaciously creating a “city successful a park” experience.
The participants, included G. Seetharaman, Officer connected Special Duty (OSD), Auroville Foundation, Venugopal, elder consultant, Sindhuja J, Member, Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC) and Railway officials and engineers.
