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 ninth G-FINDER survey reports on 2015 global investment into research and development (R&D;) of new products for neglected diseases, and identifies trends and patterns across the nine years of global G-FINDER data. In all, 185 organisations completed the survey for FY2015, which covered: 39 neglected diseases; 160 product areas …
An increasing number of developing countries – Mexico, China, Turkey, India, Vietnam, Brazil, and South Africa – are emerging as leaders in sustainable energy, with robust policies to support energy access, renewables and energy efficiency, according to this new World Bank Report. Energy is at the forefront of the development …
This new World Bank report urges developing countries and international development agencies to rethink their approach to governance, as a key to overcoming challenges related to security, growth, and equity. A new World Bank policy report urges developing countries and international development agencies to rethink their approach to governance, as …
Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as obstacles to activity recede among emerging market and developing economy commodity exporters, while domestic demand remains solid among emerging and developing commodity importers, the World Bank said in a report. …
This policy brief discusses two types of disaster risk financing (DRF) tools that can act as policy options for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Asia and the Pacific. As the economies in Asia and the Pacific are exposed to disaster risks, one strategy to mitigate the economic losses and strengthen …
This paper by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) examines two financing models for better infrastructure development in emerging economies. The paper compares the more centralized, development bank driven infrastructure investment model in Brazil with the decentralized model in India. The case study analyses the potential benefits and challenges of the …
India has ambitious renewable energy targets of 175GW by 2022. In order to meet this target, the renewable energy sector in India will require $189 billion in additional investment, including $57 billion in equity, and $132 billion in debt. The potential amount of investment in the renewable energy sector in …
GGGI launched an Insight Brief titled ‘Mind the Gap: Bridging the Climate Financing Gap with Innovative Financial Mechanisms’. This report aims to advance the public sector’s understanding of innovative financial mechanisms by examining their function, characteristics, and use. Compared with the total investment required over the next fifteen years to …
This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on Public Undertakings (2015-16) on “Corporate Social Responsibility in select Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs)". The Report was presented to the Parliament on …
This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on Public Undertakings (2015-16) on “Corporate Social Responsibility in select Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs)". The Report was presented to the Parliament on …
This year’s World Disasters Report focuses on resilience within humanitarian action. The report explores the different meanings of resilience, as well as criticisms, and its application both before and after crises. It considers how resilience is measured, and the importance of building evidence. The report examines the ‘business case’ for …
A spurt in the cancellation of public-private partnership projects in recent times can be attributted to macroeconomic crises, inherent problems in the water sector projects, and foreign sponsorship of these projects. Since giving the renegotiation relief to many of these projects seems to be problematic, cancellation is probably the only …
The advent of the Sustainable Development Goal era, in the context of new threats and instabilities to peoples worldwide, offers an ambitious agenda for revitalizing political commitments to human well-being—for future generations as well as our own. The High-level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth provides a special opportunity …
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) published and presented a special report for the Asian Regional Policy Dialogue (ARPD), which took place on September 7, 2016 during Global Green Growth Week (GGGWeek2016). The Pushing the Envelope on Renewable Energy report assesses why and how some countries within Asia (referred to …
This review covers the performance of Hydro-Electric Stations having installed capacity of more than 25 MW. As on 31st March, 2016 there were 676 H.E. generating units installed in 194 Hydro-Electric Stations with an aggregate installed capacity of 42783.42 MW in operation. Performance of 31 important Reservoir based schemes has …
The Government of Bihar is committed for the inclusive economic development of the State. Though the state is primarily an agrarian state but contribution of secondary sector i.e. industries, in inclusive economic development of the state is of equal importance and therefore can't be ignored. The State Government has taken …
The report is a detailed analysis of five sustainable urban transport projects that have the highest potential to enter successful Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements. These projects are: city bus operations, bus terminals, Intelligent Transport Systems, Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) Schemes and street infrastructure. The report details out the key …
This Report deals with the results of audit of 83 Government companies and four Statutory Corporations for the year ended 31 March 2015 for submission to the Government of Maharashtra under Section 19 A of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971, as amended …
The Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Twenty-second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on Science & Technology/Research & Development in Mining Sector relating to the Ministry of Mines. The Standing Committee on Coal and Steel (2015-16) had selected the subject for detailed examination and report to the Parliament. The …
The ‘National Health Accounts Guidelines for India’ details the standard methodology to arrive at health expenditure estimates that are comparable with other countries and also across the States within India and also over time. The States should use these guidelines to arrive at state level health estimates so that they …
