सामुदायिक निस्तार संसाधनों की अनदेखी

प्राकृतिक संसाधनों और कॉमन्स, जैसे सामुदायिक भूमि, वन, चारागाह और जल निकाय स्थानीय समुदायों के लिए महत्वपूर्ण हैं जो इन संसाधनों पर निर्भर हैं और उनके सतत उपयोग एवं संरक्षण के लिए पीढ़ियों से...

Read more January 7, 2025 at 5:44 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

मध्यप्रदेश में अमृत सरोवर का यथार्थ

आजादी का अमृत महोत्सव काल में अमृत सरोवर (तालाब) योजना शुरू किया गया था। जिसमें देश के 28 राज्य और 5 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश शामिल थे। सभी जिलों में 75 अमृत सरोवर को विकसित...

Read more October 14, 2024 at 9:00 am Raj Kumar Sinha

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

Read more March 11, 2024 at 4:27 pm Dipanjan Sinha

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.

Read more January 12, 2024 at 11:03 am Varsha Singh

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...

Read more March 24, 2023 at 10:55 am Sruthi Pillai

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.

Read more January 12, 2023 at 10:25 am CFA

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...

Read more December 14, 2022 at 11:27 am CFA

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...

Read more May 18, 2022 at 1:03 pm Gunjan Jena

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...

Read more April 28, 2022 at 1:50 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

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...

Read more August 2, 2021 at 11:26 am Swarnima Kriti

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...

Read more April 1, 2020 at 12:25 pm Rajesh Serupally

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...

Read more April 11, 2019 at 6:31 pm Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti

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...

Read more April 11, 2019 at 6:05 pm Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti

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,...

Read more October 15, 2018 at 11:38 am CFA

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...

Read more July 8, 2018 at 4:17 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

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