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| 12.1 The major modes of transport have witnessed an impressive growth in the last half a century and contributed to the development process in the country. Notwithstanding all the achievements, the quality of transport infrastructure and services is required to be improved along with the expansion of network both in terms of spread and capacity. This is a big challenge for the coming millenium. It is necessary to formulate an integrated transport policy to ensure adequate, efficient and high quality of transport infrastructure and services with a view to achieving maximum efficiency at minimum cost to the end that mobility of goods and people may be assured. While formulating such a transport policy, it is important to visualize the transport system as an integrated structure of different modes and services functioning as distinct entities in a level playing field with the element of inter-modal and intra-modal competition, ensuring organisational efficiency and individual viability. This will require reorientation in our transport policy. The emphasis will have to shift from merely providing transport infrastructure and services to technological upgradation and modernisation of the same in order to ensure mobility and not only accessibility. The thrust will have to be on provision of improved high quality services with minimum use of cross subsidisation and emphasis on achieving optimal inter modal mix with appropriate pricing and user charges policy and through injection of competitive impulses. The policy initiatives detailed in order to achieve the desired objective will require to be implemented by the concerned Administrative Ministries. |
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