<p>Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of Tapas Guha & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 06/05/2024.</p> <p>The Ministry of Civil Aviation of the Union Government decided to build
The Mineral Foundation of Goa aims to: address environmental and social issues concerning the communities in the mining belt of Goa through formulation and implementation of developmental programmes; contribute to economic and social development of the local communities by training and capacity building; to facilitate tripartite partnership amongst industry, government and civil society for ensuring sustainable livelihood and mining; to chanellise the efforts underway and to pool together activities to improve the environment; to revive participatory approach in agriculture, livestock and fore
Over the last decade, governments around the world pursued policies to involve the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. The scale of this move away from the hitherto dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated at the start of the 1990s.
Land acquisition legislation in force today is a relic of the colonial era when the wishes of landowners could be ignored. Governments of independent India continued the practice
We present results of an empirical investigation and comparison of housing supply in three rapidly growing countries: Malaysia, Thailand, and Korea. These countries offer three contrasting examples of
RITES Ltd., an ISO 9001-2000 company, is a multi-disciplinary consultancy organization in the fields of transport, infrastructure and related technologies. It provides a comprehensive array of services under a single roof and believes n transfer of technology to client organizations.
<p>With the growing threat of food insecurity and a largely erratic rainfall pattern, Kerala, despite its very high rate of annual precipitation, has embarked on a series of large budget irrigation schemes. However, with the shift in acreage in favour of certain cash crops which demand relatively less moisture, the requirement of water in agriculture may change.
This report describes important methodological issues involved in generating internationally comparable estimates of poverty. The special chapter, titled Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities, also provides comparable rates of poverty using price data specific to the Asia and Pacific region, and, critically, to the poor. A major contribution of the report is to examine the sensitivity of poverty estimates to different methods for evaluating purchasing power parities (PPP).
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the investment climate in Assam witnessed a major change in the last few years and since 2006, the State Government received proposals for investments worth
This paper analyses the current state of regulatory law and the associated institutional framework in India applicable to some of the key infrastructure sectors. Because the system in each sector has been put in place as policies have evolved at different times, there is an uneven approach to regulation across and at time even within different sectors of the economy.
The India Infrastructure Report 2008 discusses: competitive bidding models for infrastructure projects and critical factors required for a minimum subsidy model to succeed; models on auction bidding for rural infrastructure, e-governance, and multi-channel delivery mechanism; tolling and payment mechanism models for roads, railways, and airports; models for public service financing and affordable
