jodhpur the sun city has a think tank now its aim is to rebuild jodhpur an initiative called jodhpur initiative with erstwhile ruler gaj singh as its patron has been rolled out by this think tank it comprises institutional heads from institutes like iit aiims defence laboratory luminaries from law investment security and science technology fields the team in close coordination with the city administration will prepare a blueprint for comprehensively planned development of the city first meeting of the group was convened on tuesday at the iitjodhpur board room where all members were present to initiate a discussion on the development of the city the core values and potential of the city will be kept in mind cvr murty director iitj who himself is an earthquake and structural engineer said that this initiative would strike a close partnership among institutions and other experts of their respective fields this would also enhance the expertise to meet developmental requirements of the city automotive technologist m l bapna said that this would be an advocacy group which would work keeping in mind the sustainable growth of the city it would help the government in creating a comprehensive plan by giving them ideas and pursue them anand rathi ceo anand rathi associates said that the issues to be addressed by this group would be traffic and transport power sanitation sewerage and waste management water tourism and others one of the most important issue to be addressed will be generating employment by creating opportunities in the city to retain the talent