Dr Shyamala Mani The twelfth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) goal which says Ensure Responsible Consumption and Production patterns, recognizes that consumption and production despite being drivers of the economy have destructive impacts on natural resources. It further goes on to…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Arjun Kumar “Cities form a very essential part of the economic, social, and political life of any progressing country and can sometimes be seen as a proxy of the growth and development of a nation. There’s also…
*Dr Gurinder Kaur A World Health Organization (WHO) report, 2012, states 13 of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities are in India. In 2014, researchers of Yale University, USA and WHO declared Delhi as the world’s most polluted city.…
Prof Mahalaya Chatterjee In India, slums are part of urban reality. It is officially acknowledged that slums are the manifestations of urban poverty. This statement is debatable as there may be other pockets of poverty in urban area which are…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Abhinav Alakshendra and Arjun Kumar India is urbanizing and currently a large share of its population resides in small and medium towns. Therefore, in 2011, 312 million people were living in urban settlements with the population between 5000…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Arjun Kumar Cities are expected to house almost half of India’s population and contribute 3/4th of India’s GDP in the coming years. There is no denying that the insufficient water supply, public sanitation, education, health care and lack…
Prof Sachidanand Sinha and Dr Simi Mehta “Making STEM cities mean to use all the resources of a city and bring them together to create great STEM learning experiences for students.” Said Dr Cliff Zingtraff in a webinar organized jointly…