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Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) K. Sanjay Murthy, connected Thursday said that planetary congestion indices had risen from 20% to 25 % arsenic of 2025 costing each municipality commuter betwixt 100 and 180 hours of productive clip each year.
Mr. Murthy, who was speaking astatine the 5th BRICS Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI) Leaders’ Summit here, said that municipality mobility failed not for privation of roads oregon rails, but for privation of systems that worked together.
“We physique metro lines that don’t link to autobus networks. We physique flyovers that simply displacement congestion. We measurement outputs, km of roadworthy laid, stations built, alternatively than outcomes: did commute times fall? Did aerial prime improve? Did inequality successful entree reduce?” Mr. Murthy said.
On Indian cities, helium said that our cities contiguous occupied conscionable 3% of our land, yet they contributed 60% of our nationalist GDP.
“By 2030, 70% of each caller jobs successful India volition beryllium created successful cities. According to the UN, much than 50% of India’s colonisation volition unrecorded successful our cities and towns by 2050,” helium said.
He added that the CAG was conducting a peculiar audit of 101 Indian cities, assessing Ease of Living from the citizen’s perspective, crossed prime of life, access, sustainability and perception.
“And we are auditing multi-modal transport and first-mile, last-mile logistics, successful concern with institutions similar Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management and with the World Bank,” helium added.
Convened successful India’s twelvemonth of BRICS Chairmanship 2026, the acme held successful Bengaluru brings unneurotic 42 delegates, including Heads of SAIs from BRICS subordinate countries to deliberate connected audit themes of shared relevance, speech champion practices, and fortify nationalist fiscal oversight.
‘Living argument’
“There is thing peculiarly fitting astir gathering here, successful the metropolis that India calls some its Silicon Valley and its Garden City. A metropolis that writes the bundle powering the world’s astir precocious enterprises, and where, connected the precise aforesaid morning, a caregiver boards an overcrowded autobus for a ninety-minute commute to prevention lives that bundle cannot reach. Bengaluru, successful that way, is not conscionable a big city. It is the surviving statement for wherefore this acme matters,” Mr. Murthy said.
