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Home > Posts by Soumya Dutta

The Great Indian Power Crisis

The power crisis, triggered by the coal shortage, has been in the news for the past few months. Almost the whole of India was caught in a serious power crisis from early May 2022.

Read more June 25, 2022 at 1:40 pm Soumya Dutta

India’s Renewable Energy Promise at the COP-26 in Glasgow

One of the most important climate summits under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the CoP-26 recently took place in the Scottish city of Glasgow in United Kingdom. 

Read more February 22, 2022 at 5:25 pm Soumya Dutta

The Great Indian Climate Gimmick!

The union budget 2021-22 was placed in the parliament a few days ago. Taking a quick look at its Environment & Climate provisions, here is a brief snapshot of the DISMAL picture of the...

Read more February 5, 2021 at 6:11 pm Soumya Dutta

A Bill that is Badly Timed, Mal-Directed and Devoid of Basics

Any Act or bill to get an act on electricity (or the larger issues of primary energy), has to first comprehend the basic functions electricity has in human society. Presumably, some form of electricity might...

Read more April 30, 2020 at 7:13 pm Soumya Dutta

Pre Budget Musings

Starting with GDP, in the 2nd quarter of 2019-20 the real Gross Domestic Product (adjusted on base year price) of the country has been recorded at 4.5%, which is the lowest in last 6...

Read more January 30, 2020 at 4:04 pm Soumya Dutta

Emerging Landscape of Global Climate Finance

The concept of climate finance originated from the need for financing both the Mitigation (reducing the root cause of Climate Crisis, greenhouse Gas emissions) as well as Adaptation (building resilience in countries, societies, communities...

Read more December 11, 2019 at 7:12 am Soumya Dutta

Ease of Doing Business and Rana Plaza Tragedy

Five years ago, on April 24, 2013, a tragedy in neighbouring Bangladesh shook up everyone. Rana Plaza, a five-storied commercial building, that housed several “sweatshop” clothing factories, a bank and few shops, collapsed and...

Read more May 13, 2018 at 10:58 am Soumya Dutta

India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick

We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines.  As per the “State of Global Air...

Read more August 26, 2017 at 1:57 pm Soumya Dutta

Changing Trends in Global Energy Finance

The year 2015 was called a landmark year in terms of global environmental action. Two global agreements were reached and sealed – both critically concerned with the future environmental health of the earth and...

Read more April 6, 2017 at 1:46 pm Soumya Dutta

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Why Talk of Privatisation When Public Sector Banks are Doing Excellent?

The net profit of the public sector banks in 2021 was Rs.31,820 crore and their operating profit was Rs.1,97,376...

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Designing a low energy home

Residential energy consumption takes up about 25% share of the total energy consumption in India, a majority of which...

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