Jai
Jagannath,
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Sri. Upendra Trypathy receives Extraordinaire Citizen Award for 2008
)
Attached : Snaps from
Felicitation ceremony.
Karnataka-cadre 1980 batch IAS officer Upendra Tripathy is among the
officials who have bagged the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence.
Tripathy, 52, gets the award for steering Bangalore Metropolitan
Transport Corporation (BMTC) as India's only profit-making urban
transport undertaking as its key driver for more than five years
before he picked a position with the Central government's ministry
of tribal affairs in New Delhi last month.
Driving profit: The popular BMTC bus on Bangalore roads. Photo:
Stephen DavidBMTC recorded just a small 0.14 accidents per one lakh
km rate, the lowest in India. Tripathy used to have his regular
janata darshans for his employees where grievances would be
immediately be attended to: from an injured driver seeking a desk
job to a pregnant lady conductor asking for liberal extension of
leave with pay.
The award winning officer also ensured that BMTC had tied up with
nearly thirty big
hospitals. Staff children got free tuition.
He fit more than 1,200 buses - of the 4,700 with BMTC - with GPS
device to know where the buses were. He has worked on a PhD on
political economy of India 's ozone management policy at Carleton
University, Ottawa.
Taking a leaf from Lalu Prasad who talked of milking the Jersey cows
to the maximum to ensure the maximum profits, Tripathy also worked
his fleet to the max -- at 94 per cent highest fleet utilisation in
the country - driving a profit of Rs 200-odd crore last year.
Just before leaving for Delhi, Tripathy also prepared the ground for
the BMTC to go for an initial public offer that will fetch the
company about Rs 5,000 crore. The economic downturn has delayed the
IPO process.
He is an ardent advocate of mass transport. As he told India Today
earlier, "One bus can keep nearly forty cars off the roads and
cities must have dedicated bus lanes called Bus Rapid Transit
corridor."
The environmentalist in him also ensured that the Kyoto Protocol is
also applicable for the BMTC buses - earning Certified Emission
Reduction (CER) by using bio-diesel in 280 of its buses to start
with.
For the uninitiated, the Kyoto Protocol is an international
agreement, negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, by which
industrialised nations have committed to making substantial
reductions in their emissions of greenhouse gases by 2012.
More than 160 countries have committed to the agreement thus far.
If all its 4,700 buses run on bio-diesel, BMTC will earn US$1.9
million a year through carbon trade. It will also need a whopping
1.46 lakh MT of bio-diesel.
Tripathy hopes that BMTC's model of success can be replicated in
other metros. BMTC buses ply a million km today carrying three
million passengers daily.
Team Nilachakra congratulates
respected Sri Upendra Tripathy for his achievements and Pray Lord
Jagannath to bless him with far more success ever in his life and
let all follow his footsteps of honesty and responsiveness. Jaya Jagannath.
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Team Nilachakra
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