To effectively address the emerging urbanization challenges, the Ministry of Urban Development has come out with a multi-pronged policy framework to promote living close to mass urban transit corridors. This new initiative seeks to promote ‘Transit Oriented Development (TOD)’ which enables people to live within walking or cycling distance from transit corridors like the Metros, Monorail and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors, currently being taken up on a large scale.
Under TOD, city densification will be promoted along mass transit corridors through vertical construction by substantially enhancingFARs (Floor Area Ratio) backed bypromotion of Non-motorised Transport Infrastructure for walking and cycling to ....
