[Webinar] Municipal Finance: Financing Sustainable Transport
About the speaker: Dr Ravikant Joshi – Team Leader -Technical Support Unit to the National Urban Livelihoods Mission – Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Dr. Ravikant Joshi presently works for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as a Team Leader in the Technical Support Group to National Urban Livelihood Mission. He is the former Chief Accounts Officer of Vadodara Municipal Corporation with more than 35 years of experience. He has been responsible for the conceptualisation, design and implementation of Municipal Financial, Budgetary and Accounting System Reforms at the Corporation.
He is a sought-after guest lecturer at various Institution and Universities for topics ranging from urban-municipal finance, urban finance, urban governance, strategic urban management, to urban development studies. Dr Joshi has written over 30 research papers on urban governance that have been publish in various journals and seminars.
Description: The webinar explores alternate methods of financing sustainable transport initiatives in Indian cities – such as municipal bonds, urban transport funds, land value capture through public-private partnerships etc. It highlights the present scenario of revenue tools, identifies gaps in the current set-up, and provides an analysis of various alternative methods of financing, available for our cities.
The webinar recording can be found here.