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 …
This Handbook focuses on the role that Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) can play in promoting Renewable Energy (RE) in developing countries. The concept of NAMAs was developed in the negotiations carried out under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to denote planned, voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) …
The NHSP-2 identifies a number of HRH (Human Resources for Health) challenges and constraints that are affecting the delivery of health services and the achievement of health outcomes. It proposes a range of strategies and issues to address these challenges in the 5-year plan period. It recommends that the staffing …
This policy pathway presents the critical elements of joint public-private approaches to accelerating and scaling up private investment in energy efficiency. It focuses on the lessons learned from country experiences with three mechanisms – dedicated credit lines, risk guarantees, and energy performance service contracts.
Coalition for a GM-Free India demands immediate stopping of all public sector transgenic research and an independent enquiry and action against fraudulent scientists.
Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas present this ninth report on "Challenges of Under-recoveries of Petroleum Products". The term "under-recovery" has been used by the Government for "losses" experienced by the public sector oil marketing companies due to incomplete cost recovery on selling of petroleum product in the market. …
The main reason for the continued low use of quality seed has been inadequate access. Though the private sector has taken a lead in harnessing technological innovation in some segments, it has concentrated on particular types of seed. It has also occasionally supplied spurious and low quality seeds and charged …
A recent review has discussed the economic value of vaccine for developed countries. The situation is quite different in developing countries, and we examine the situation in Brazil. Vaccines are of fundamental importance for the control of infectious diseases, especially among the population that lives in poor sanitary conditions. Also, …
In recent years public-private partnerships have been offered as the miracle-cure that would help fix all the challenges to the health sector. Over the last decade, a number of ppps providing maternal health services have come into existence but few have been evaluated. This paper examines whether ppps with the …
Out-of-pocket payments are the principal source of healthcare finance in most Asian countries, and India is no exception. This fact has important consequences for household living standards. In this paper the author explores significant changes in the 1990s and early 2000s that appear to have occurred as a result of …
The new National Vaccine Policy Draft 2011 by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare comes out openly in favour of public-private partnerships and suggests flexible governing and funding mechanisms to support vaccine development in the PPP mode. This article argues that our vaccine policy must look into the …
The purpose of this Bill is to provide for a legal framework for infrastructure development through Public Private Partnerships, incorporating contractual arrangements to design, finance, construct, operate and maintain Infrastructure Projects, provide for a fair and transparent selection process, set out rights and obligations of the Government and private sector …
This National Manufacturing Policy approved by the Union Cabinet aims at augmenting the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25% within a decade, create 100 million jobs and ensure sustainability of growth. This Policy document has been prepared after extensive stakeholder consultations and inputs from the industry, state governments and …
Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act was enacted 15 years ago. Do you feel helpless because it has not yet been implemented? As the minister of panchayati raj, my first job is to remind people about the existence of PESA. If need arises I can go for further legislation …
The chief ministers of India's mineral-rich states are keenly watching the progress of the new Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Bill that was recently approved by the Union cabinet. While many of them have been dragged into illegal mining controversies, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has welcomed any …
About 80 percent of the forested area of the developing world is held under public ownership. Many critics of state ownership argue that public stewardship of forests has been poor, pointing to high rates deforestation on land owned and administered by governments. These criticisms have given rise to a movement …
n 2008, 36 million people died from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). 1 By 2020, NCDs are projected to cause almost three quarters as many deaths as communicable, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional diseases, and by 2030 to exceed them as the most common causes of death. 2 On Sept 19, 2011, the …
It is eight years now since the Nepal government mooted the idea of introducing special economic zones (SEZs) in the country to boost its sagging exports and attract foreign investment. To this end, the SEZ Bill was tabled in Parliament two years ago, but it is yet to be approved. …
Increased focus has been placed on the issues of energy access and energy poverty over the last number of years, most notably indicated by the United Nations (UN) declaring 2012 as the “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All”. Although attention in these topics has increased, incorrect assumptions and misunderstandings …
