Delhi
Direct cash transfer of subsidies through Aadhaar card across 15 States from January 1, 2013 - Roundup of the week's news (November 19 to 25, 2012)
Posted on 26 Nov, 2012 09:43 AMDirect cash transfer of subsidies through Aadhaar card
A comprehensive study of gender issues in slums through JAGORI research: News and policy update from India WASH Forum e-newsletter-October (2012)
Posted on 25 Nov, 2012 06:08 PMThis bi monthly e-Newsletter by the India WASH Forum provides excerpts of the JAGORI study from two slums of Delhi in 2010-11 that look at gender concerns in the context of slum sanitation in India and make some very useful recommendations.
National Foundation for India invites applications for its 18th National Media Fellowship programme - Apply by November 30, 2012
Posted on 23 Nov, 2012 02:46 PMAbout the National Foundation for India
Bangalore’s garbage crisis grows in heaps and mounds - Roundup of news over the last three weeks (October 29 –November 18, 2012)
Posted on 20 Nov, 2012 07:07 PMBangalore’s garbage crisis grows in heaps and mounds
The city is drowning in its own waste with garbage trucks regularly lined up for hours, their burdens putrefying in the afternoon sun. Some neighborhoods have not had trash pickups for nearly three weeks, and vast mounds of garbage are scattered through out the city.
Toilets are beautiful: The "Going Potty" toilet sit-down, Nirmal Bharat Yatra, November 18-27, 2012, New Delhi
Posted on 19 Nov, 2012 10:49 AMOrganisers
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Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in water in Delhi a burden on public, says Citizens Front for Water Democracy
Posted on 14 Nov, 2012 06:49 PMPoliticians/DJB members, board officials work in connivance with consultants and companies causing losses to the public exchequer. Delhiites get water at high rates and increased water bills as 50 per cent of DJB work is under private operators.
First tree census by volunteers in Delhi – Report by Compassionate Living
Posted on 14 Nov, 2012 02:05 PMIndia International Centre and The Green Circle of Delhi organized the release of a report based on a first of its kind initiative – the “First Tree Census Report of Delhi by Citizens: Sarvodaya Enclave” on 17th
Delhi’s waste conflict – A paper in the Economic and Political Weekly
Posted on 20 Oct, 2012 05:26 PMThe commentary in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) begins by discussing the policy shift in solid waste management that involves the privatisation of certain aspects of the system, such as the incineration of waste, but more importantly, it represents a comprehensive and holistic transformation in which the entire system becomes in
Short-term EIA training programme organized by the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 3-7 December, 2012
Posted on 18 Oct, 2012 10:44 AMVenue
CSE, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,
New Delhi -110062