A report on the alarmingly high levels of heavy metal contamination and other violations by the waste incinerator In Manali, Chennai. An incinerator is basically a furnace for burning waste. The “green” incinerator in...
Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited – CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power plant developed on over 1250 hectares of land near the village Tunda-Wand, in Kutch...
A ₹76,220 crore mega-port in Maharashtra is being pushed under Sagarmala, threatening fishers, farmers, and Adivasis in Palghar.
Critical analysis of the operations and eco-social impact of oil and gas public sector enterprises.
Budget Allocation Analysis Based on % of Total Expenditure This analysis reviews the annual budget distribution of Maharashtra’s Tribal Component Scheme (TCS) across crucial sectors impacting tribal communities from 2020-21 to the projected budget...
A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the...
A People’s Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing alarm to those who are bothered to look beyond the hyperbole and manufactured...
The recently concluded COP29 left many people disappointed due to a lack of progress on critical issues. The Western world offered insufficient climate finance, while major polluters sought to undermine the fossil fuel phaseout...
A critical look at the recent Disaster Managenent Amendment Bill, 2024. Why has the government removed clauses that allowed for loan reliefs and concession loans to disaster affected people? Urgent need to raise pertinent...
A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group's Report on Banking in India
This report while examining the capital investments of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and Pension Funds (PFs) reveals a growing interest in infrastructure projects, amongst these institutional investors. This trend stems from the attractive security provided...
உலகம் முழுதும் குப்பைகளைக் கையாள்வது பெரும் பிரச்சினைய ாக உருவெடுத் து வருகிறது. குறிப்பாக , விரைவாக பொருளாதார வளர்ச்சியடையும் நகரங்கள் இந்த பிரச்சினையை அதிகம ாக எதிர்கொள்கின்றன. இந ்த வரிசையில் பொருளாதாரரீதியாக வளர்ந்து வரும் சென்னை ம ாநகரானது தனது குப்பைகளைக் கைய ாள்வதி...
There are already predictions that 2024 will be the hottest year on record,1 and that the Paris goal of keeping global average temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is at critical risk of...
India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the...
In response to the urgent need for global climate action, the COP28 climate negotiations set a target to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, demanding a significant transfer of public finance towards the...
