Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The Ministry is now bringing out the Guidelines for Support to Research in mining & mineral sector to provide renewed scientific impetus to address the emerging mining challenges, broaden the participation of stakeholders, introduce the concept of cost-sharing and make the research in Mines more productive, with an emphasis on …
Non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders, and injuries have become the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Pakistan. Tobacco use and hypertension are the leading attributable risk factors for deaths due to cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and respiratory diseases. Pakistan has the sixth highest …
Pakistan’s enormous macroeconomic, internal, and human security challenges coexist alongside the opportunity created by a huge desire for change. With democracy taking root and a new constitutionally ushered era in state governance, The Lancet Series about Pakistan and health focuses on health as a nation-building and social-welfare agenda at a …
Minerals are valuable natural resource being the vital raw material for infrastructure, capital goods and basic industries. The endowment is finite and non-renewable. Hence, the exploitation of minerals has to be guided by long term National Goals and Perspectives. The State Mineral Policy is an integration of National Mineral policy. …
Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Thirty-Third Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on Demands for Grants (2013-14) relating to the Ministry of Coal. The Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Coal were laid on the Table of the House on 12.03.2013. Under rule 331E of the Rules of …
CSR activities are being completely ignored by Coal India Limited, says this report by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel. It asks CIL to prepare an action plan for identification & implementation of CSR projects on war footing during 12th Plan. Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present …
The Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2013 sets a target to increase R&D; expenditure to 2% of gross domestic product, this through public-private partnerships. But, compared to China, where is the commitment to R&D;? India's innovation potential is grossly underutilised. The small and medium enterprises in the industrial clusters are …
This report deals with the results of audit of Government Companies and Statutory Corporations and has been prepared for submission to the Government of Gujarat under Section 19A of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971, as amended from time to time. Audit of …
This paper highlights the implications of the current separation of the discourses on private climate finance (PCF) and on subsidies, and the opportunities that exist to unlock climate-compatible investment by linking these fields. Though climate finance aims to enable climate compatible development (CCD), this paper points out that, within developing …
In Chitral, Pakistan, existing local institutions for water management play a major role in enhancing the adaptive capacity of local communities. However, government rules and regulations concerning water governance are posing challenges for community-based institutions and affecting the local capacity for adaptation. Hence, there is a need to examine the …
This report on the State of Indian Agriculture calls for wide-ranging reforms in agriculture sector to enable it to meet the growing demands and meet the challenges posed by various human and environmental factors. The report on the State of Indian Agriculture calls for wide-ranging reforms in agriculture sector to …
This article stresses that any impact assessment of health insurance schemes is sensitive to the methodology as well as the data used for analysis. It is based on two recent studies evaluating the impact of publicly-fi nanced health insurance schemes on benefi ciaries.
In order to incentivize the LPG Industry for enhancing local LPG production as well as import of LPG and its utilization in the automotive sector & in LPG Air Mix plants for provision of gas to consumers, the Government is introducing these policy Guidelines. The main objectives of these policy …
Ecosystem is affected by uneducated, unplanned and ineffective waste management. The cycle of garbage generation and recycling is effective to make the cities environment more pollution free, clean, green and habitable for healthy living. In an effort to understand the dynamics of waste management and scope in Delhi & NCR …
Recent reform programmes for achieving "slum-free" cities, like the Basic Services for the Urban Poor, signal a new integrated approach to slum redevelopment that combines housing, infrastructure and land titling. The new policy paradigm speaks the language of inclusiveness and efficiency, but its outcome has been far from ideal. This …
Having received only limited success in their global quest for natural resources, public sector metal and mining companies might turn their focus now on just a handful of mineral-rich countries where the chances of striking deals are much higher. The government has identified four countries — Brazil, South Africa, Canada …
Climate finance has been a key topic in recent international climate negotiations. Understanding how much and what type of finance is available to advance low-carbon growth is critical to scaling up finance and ensuring that resources are used effectively. The Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2012 identifies global climate finance …
Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) is a method of working in which the public and private sectors cooperate and partner with each other to create infrastructure and/ or provide services to users. All PPP projects have multiple stakeholders such as the ULBs, citizens, private sector, and state and central governments. These stakeholders want …
South Asia is the region most vulnerable to increasing food inflation given that a large part of its population lives below or near the poverty line. An empirical analysis of the factors that could explain the increase in food inflation is presented in this paper, while the effect of food …
Batches of the world’s first vaccine against the hepatitis E virus began rolling out of a Chinese factory, promising to stem a disease that every year infects about 20 million people and claims 70,000 lives. The vaccine is being hailed as a victory for an unusual public–private partnership that could …
