Neethi Nair Introduction Industrialisation, commercialisation, and urbanisation have offered employment opportunities, better living conditions, versatile transportation, communication, advanced education, and health facilities. Like every coin has two sides, urbanization also created problems of overcrowding, reduced surface albedo, pollution, environmental degradation,…
Nagavarshini M India contributes approximately 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions while housing 17% of the world’s population. It faces the dual challenge of sustaining robust economic growth while dramatically reducing its carbon footprint. India’s decarbonization policy framework represents one…
PRAYAS is a data driven framework that enables the government to visualize progress of its flagship schemes on a single platform and monitor their progress through identified Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). PRAYAS electronically captures aggregated anonymous data from IT systems of respective schemes in a predefined format at an agreed frequency and granularity through APIs.
India is an ecological hotspot with ten unique biogeographical zones and a significant variety of endemic flora and fauna, thus well known as a mega-biodiverse country. In this Anthropocene era, the Indian landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, which is not solely due to climate change and deforestation, but also to the silent crisis of invasive alien species (IAS). IAS are often regarded as a serious threat to biodiversity, alongside habitat degradation, across the globe.
In order to combat these issues and reinforce women as an equally capable labour force, the “Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana” (MKSP) was introduced. It is a sub-component of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission, which is under implementation since 2011 through State Rural Livelihoods Mission as Project Implementation Agencies (PIA).
Sujal Kumar Poddar “Why is the eco-friendly bottle always the more expensive one?” This was a question I heard a thirteen-year-old girl ask her father at a supermarket. The father shrugged, visibly unsure, and reached for the cheaper plastic bottle.…