t’s no small irony that even as employment, and the share of the national income going to the poor, have decreased in India over the past five years, car sales have doubled. Automobile manufacturing is one of India’s fastest-growing industries, thanks to the consumerism of the upper-middle class and its elitist notions of lifestyle, personal mobility and the glamour it attaches to cars.
Tag - Urban Transport
Tackling The Urban Transportation Crisis: The electric vehicle solution
Besides poverty and squalor, what all South Asian cities have in common is a highly congested, heavily polluted, totally chaotic and nightmarishly unsafe transportation system.