The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) proposed amendments to several environmental laws in July 2022, including the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The amendments aimed to reduce...
A POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India have been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and...
Data centres are giant industrial collections of servers that store and process data underlying the modern information economy. Most policies concerning the installation, use and maintenance of data centres ignore an important aspect: their...
Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank Campaign Week in 2021 at a panel titled тАЬPrivatisation, Commodification and...
It was a cold December evening when I met Kavita Yadaw of village Mardapoti (Nagri block, Dhamtari district, Chhattisgarh). Kavita struggled with her mask. She adjusted and readjusted it. She remembered that the pandemic...
Unless the state changes course quickly, its policies will hurt the medium, small and marginal farmer, who make up 85% of its agricultural sector. The peopleтАЩs movements in Telangana that for six decades drove...
Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti April 4-5, 2019,┬аYouth Hostel, Jabalpur In the context of the upcoming general election, a two days consultation...
Public-Private Partnerships тАФ or PPPs тАФ are increasingly being promoted as a way to finance development projects.┬аThis report gives an in-depth, evidence-based analysis of the impact of 10 PPP projects, including two from India,...
Close to past two decades India has been observing measures to reform the water sector based on the financial sustainability model put forward by the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) based on principles like increasing...
