Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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Manufacture and Other Operations in Warehouse Regulations (MOOWR): Boosting or Hindering Make-in-India?

If you have not heard of MOOWR, and think the term probably refers to a cow’s moo
turning into a growl in protest against the abuse she is being subjected to in the Indian
political discourse, you can be excused. The MOOWR in question, however, is not
anything remotely bovine or pastoral. It is a policy initiative by the government meant to
help the noble cause of Make-in-India, which ends up ignobly harming the project of
indigenous manufacture.

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Elevating Coal Gasification in India’s Energy Security Framework

TK ARUN The ongoing war in the Persian Gulf shows why India must leverage its most abundant fuel to substitute for imports of hydrocarbons Coal is so 19th-century, oil and gas ooze 20th-century ‘modernity’, while renewables spell contemporary, climate-conscious cool —…

Rethinking Tiger Conservation: Why the State Must Take the Lead

TK Arun India promised tax certainty through grandfathering. The Supreme Court’s Tiger Global verdict undermines that. It’s the government that must restore credibility. It is a mystery why the government did not address, in the Budget, the damage done to India’s tax credibility…

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