Women's Participation in Civic Issues

A panel discussion on “Women’s Participation in Civic Issues” was organized at Sheraton Park Hotel. The distinguished panelists were Mr. Prakash Challa – Managing Director – SSPDL, Ms. Shreya Gadepalli – Regional Director – ITDP, Ms. Kavitha Selvaraj – Director C.R. Narayan Rao, and Ms. Jayshree Venkatesan – Trustee – Care Earth. The programme was moderated by Mr.Raj Cherubal – Director (Projects), Chennai City Connect Foundation, a platform for industry associations and civic organisations that envisions world-class quality of life for all Indian citizens.

The speakers highlighted the urban management issues which have increasingly become important for sustaining economic activities in the country and widely affect the quality of life of urban citizens. They stressed on the need to identify open spaces, develop public transport, improve coordination between road and rail transport and to focus on bringing about this change’ourselves.