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Key Role of Community Participation for a Sustainable Waste Management System

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,…

India’s Decarbonization Journey: Navigating the Path to a Just and Sustainable Future

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 (2020)- Pursuing Excellence in Governance

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.

The Silent Spread: How Invasive Species Are Rewriting Forest Life in India  

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.

Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (2011)- Empowering Women Farmers

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).

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