Fish and Foul
Where have all the fish gone? Many reasons are ascribed to the low catch. But most blame it on the industries in the belt
Just transition in petrochemicals: Dahej near Bharuch is Asia’s richest industrial zone. But what of its local fisherfolk
The lives of people in many areas of Gujarat have become difficult due to petrochemical industries.
Pollution control: Amendments to Water Act is a greenwashing attempt
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...
Submissions to the Standing Committee of Parliament on Energy regarding the proposed Electricity Amendment Bill 2022
The Electricity Amendment Bill 2022 was tabled in the Parliament on the 8th of August 2022.
India’s waste-to-energy paradigm
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...
The Hidden Environmental Costs of India’s Data Centre Push
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...
World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India
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 “Privatisation, Commodification and...
Engaging with the Pandemic: Hope and Despair in five villages of Chhattisgarh
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...
In Telangana, free power policy for farmers will exact a steep environmental cost
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 people’s movements in Telangana that for six decades drove...
आम चुनाव में सभी उम्मीदवारों से मप्र के जन आंदोलनों की मांगे और संकल्प
आम चुनाव में सभी उम्मीदवारों से मप्र के जन आंदोलनों की मांगे और संकल्प मध्यप्रदेश जन संघर्ष समन्वय समिती 4-5, आप्रैल 2019, युथ होस्टल, जबलपुर आगामी आम चुनाव के संदर्भ में, 4-5 अप्रैल 2019...
Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates
Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti April 4-5, 2019, Youth Hostel, Jabalpur In the context of the upcoming general election, a two days consultation...
Report: History RePPPeated: How PPPs are Failing
Public-Private Partnerships — or PPPs — are increasingly being promoted as a way to finance development projects. This report gives an in-depth, evidence-based analysis of the impact of 10 PPP projects, including two from India,...
Water for Life, Not profit: IFIs in Urban Water Supply in 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...
Water for Life, Not Profit: IFIs in Urban Water supply
This workshop enabled discussions on IFI model of reforms in water supply services, including privatisation/ PPPs and commercialisation. The discussion also included the concepts of right to water and its implementation at the community...
Urban Infrastructure Investment and Public Accountability
The workshop primarily looked at the role IFIs are playing in shaping urban infrastructure finance and policy in India. The approaches and methodologies that have been used by the private sector to create alliances...
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