“We deserve better”: an Indian businessman about what Indian cities can learn from Vancouver

After spending nearly two weeks in Vancouver, a city was constantly classified among the most lively living in the world, an Indian businessman shared a convincing thread that determines what Indian cities could learn from their urban design and rule.

From pedestrian -friendly infrastructure to clean energy and integrated public services, Sharhotti Chatorphdei, founder of the Indian storytelling platform, highlights 19 major meals, which raises the discussion on how Indian cities develop with the most intelligent planning and deep civil intention.

Among its main observations: pedestrian paths are treated as an essential, wide, shaded and continuous infrastructure – even in the areas of the suburbs. The public waterfront is open and accessible, lined with corridors and cycling paths. Public transportation in Vancouver is smooth and reliable, with one card and an application that covers trains, buses and phrases.

It praises the city’s multi -use planning, where homes, offices, clinics and shops coexist, while keeping the streets around the clock. Gardens and green spaces are included in each neighborhood. “Nature is the sacred infrastructure here – and not an obstacle to development,” notes, calling in contrast to how to abuse Indian cities in the cover and green cover.

Public spaces such as libraries, bathrooms, and community centers are clean, free and well maintenance. Citizens can erase the QR codes to report civil issues via the VAN311 application in the city – a simple Chatorphdey that believes that Indian municipalities can adapt to them.

It also refers to a real inclusion – the voices of the indigenous population are officially recognized in the ruling, and the Vancouver diversity “lived, not a performance”. However, it also recognizes the challenges: visual drug use, long -standing waiting times in health care, and unimaginable housing – similar to Mumbai.

Chaturvedi is not romantic, vanquover, blind. It refers to the visual crisis of drug use and displacement, especially in areas such as East Hastings. Health care, too, is not without defects – although they are “free” for Canadian citizens, they notice long waiting times and exorbitant costs for new expatriates without special insurance.

But her message is clear. Indian cities should give priority to human planning, environmental respect, and comprehensive design. “I have collected what I have noticed and I hope to implement it in India while preserving our culture,” she wrote. “We deserve better.”