00:00Noida authority head office is the road, but there is no footpaths.
00:04There is no footpath here.
00:06I walked across multiple footpaths in Noida to see if they're actually walkable.
00:10There's garbage strewn right next to it. It's completely blocked because it has not been maintained in years.
00:17The footpaths we need are not here.
00:20Electricity poles, wires, some random construction waste.
00:24So all of these are obstructions that you can find here on the footpath, which is the pedestrians would ultimately
00:31be forced to walk on the road here.
00:33No choice, I walk on the road only.
00:35It's the footpath here. Now you can see that it's been encroached by a lot of food eateries and stalls.
00:40We don't have any further space to walk.
00:43Sector 18, Atta Market, you can find everything here, but what you will not find here is any space to
00:49walk.
00:50These footpaths have been taken over by the shops.
00:52You have the parking space, but still people are, you know, parking cars.
00:56You see cars which have been parked on the cyclist's path.
01:00If you want to go to a cycle, you can't go to a cycle because of many reasons.
01:04The cars are standing here, but there is no clear.
01:06Like them are using motor vehicles on the footpath itself.
01:11There are violations everywhere. No one is just following the rules.
01:15The Supreme Court has said that the right to walk on a footpath is a fundamental right under Article 21.
01:20But where are the footpaths?
01:22I want to walk safely on the road. I want footpaths. I want walkable roads. I want bike paths.
01:29But we can't even have normal roads.
01:31This decision of the Supreme Court was triggered after the death of a five-year-old who was supposed to
01:36walk on the road and was hit by a tanker on the way to school.
01:39There is a botanical footpath. There is a footpath in the footpath. So it's very hard to walk on those
01:46tracks.
01:46The condition is drastically poor. When it's rain, the water gets flooded anywhere. It's pretty hard to move in rain,
01:54especially.
01:54There's no place to walk. Especially see this. See this blue line. What is this? What is it? I don't
02:00understand where the money goes through.
02:02According to the Council for Active Mobility, only 9-20% of footpaths in major Indian cities meet official standards.
02:08We reached out to Noida Authority. CEO Karunesh Kumar says work is underway and major stretchers will see improvements over
02:16the next three, four months.
02:17With new footpaths and streetlights planned in high footfall areas.
02:20This is a road which is meant just for vehicles and not for pedestrians.
02:26Now Supreme Court has passed the judgment and it has called right to walking on the footpath a fundamental right.
02:32But how long will it really take for us to get there to make Indian roads walkable?
02:37That will be a test of time.
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