Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Ritika Gupta, Nikhil Jacob, Manoswini Sarkar From the lens of water professional, Dr Indira Khurana, Vice-Chair, Tarun Bharat Sangh, who has worked in the domain of drinking water and water resources for several years, the budget…
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Manoswini Sarkar Expressing his displeasure over the absence of the term ‘ecology’ from the Budget speech at a time when the world is combating the ill effects of climate change, Mr Himanshu…
Ashish Kothari In 1991, when the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh ushered in ‘economic reforms’ that catapulted India into the global economy, I had asked him a question in a public lecture he gave, about how he intended to balance…
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Manoswini Sarkar Several environment institutions and organizations play a critical role in aspects of data collection, monitoring, law enforcement and conservation. Capacity building, personnel training and adequate funding are of paramount significance…
Harini Nagendra India has been urbanizing rapidly in recent years, but the poorly managed urban growth and development have exacerbated inequalities, exclusion, and vulnerabilities, especially among the marginalized population. Additionally, sustainability issues also need to be prioritized to determine the…
Gurinder Kaur Recent havoc in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, where a large part of the Nanda Devi Glacier fell into the Alaknanda stream near Joshimath, caused severe flooding. The rapid flow of water caused mountain slides that fell into…