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…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Nikhil Jacob The pandemic pushed the Indian economy to the greatest crisis that it ever had to face, leading to its collapse in the month of April/May 2020. Although the official data…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob The Union Budget 2021 has taken a cue from the Economic Survey and focused on growth. In fact, it talks only about growth and not about mitigating inequalities, remarked Dr Jyotsna Jha,…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob The decade of 2010 – 2020 could be considered as the ‘lost decade’. The uncertainties surrounding a possible change in government during the early years, the haphazard rollout of the demonetization exercise,…