News and Articles
Is Pumpkart streamlining an unorganised sector?
Posted on 11 Feb, 2016 12:03 PMThe increasing gap in water availability in India has encouraged the growth of the water industry. Be it the bottling sector, filtration or wastewater recycling, all segments related to water are seeing a phenomenal upsurge.
Environmentalists protest proposed projects near Konkan coastline
Posted on 09 Feb, 2016 12:48 PMActivists stand against three proposed projects near Konkan coastline
Eight ministries now responsible for Ganga clean up
Posted on 09 Feb, 2016 12:39 PMSeven ministries other than the Water Ministry to help revive the Ganga
Agriculture and informal sector labour need a budgetary push
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 08:46 AMRecent data from the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) as well as the Agriculture Census highlighted the plight of Indian farmers. Around 85 percent are small and marginal farmers with an average monthly income of only Rs. 4653, which is lesser than their monthly expenses. Debt rates are very high among farmers with an average loan of more than Rs.
Gender and water use: Looking beyond pure data
Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 12:36 PMGrowth and development indicators at the policy level many a times demand the need for factual data that is often standardised and expressed as numbers in order to make each local context comparable to other and allow data to be aggregated to higher geographical scales.
Development or drastic ecological changes: Where is Dehradun headed?
Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 11:49 AMThe Babur Nama mentions that the “
Echoes of Bhakra
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 04:28 PMBhakra dam was the first hydropower project of independent India. Though it brought electricity and water to vast areas, the people displaced in the Bilaspur area of Himachal Pradesh remain dissatisfied. Many of them were not adequately compensated, and began living and farming in the adjoining forests. They were allowed to stay put--unofficially--by the administration.
Unnatural world: National parks and climate change
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 03:39 PMForest guards in India have fought many things over time in the course of their daily work--poachers, irate citizens, even animals at times! But they are now facing a threat that may well be beyond their capacity to overcome. A threat that is not just responsible for the death of individual animals, but for the destruction of entire groups of species--climate change.
Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push
Posted on 30 Jan, 2016 12:56 PMWhile the WatSan sector has been prioritised in the country’s policy agenda through the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, last year’s budgetary outlay was way below desired levels.
The paradox of poor sanitation in India
Posted on 28 Jan, 2016 09:17 PMDespite India's rapid economic growth in recent decades, open defecation rates continue to be very high. This presents a unique puzzle for scholars of development because other regions where people are poorer, literacy rates lower, and drinking water more scarce, are better off that India when it comes to open defecation.