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 compulsory licence issued to Natco for manufacture of the anti-cancer drug Nexavar is a landmark decision on many grounds – the first one in India since the 2005 amendment to the 1970 Patents Act and the fi rst in the world issued to a private party. There are some …
Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Monday described CAG draft report on allocation of coal blocks without auction as “illogical”, asking by that yardstick even water used in the hydro projects should be charged. “This is no logic. If this is accepted, then there are so many hydro projects in the …
Hardly a week goes by without the appearance of yet another press release or newspaper article on plans for a large-scale ground-mounted PV installation in India. With uncertainty hanging over the two biggest markets- Germany and Italy - solar interest has naturally been drawn toward other potential markets. The current …
Phil Marker heads the Climate Change and Energy Unit of the UK Department for International Development and British High Commission, India. This unit is responsible for promoting collaboration between the UK and India on climate change and energy issues including programmes addressing energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate resilience, water and …
Health insurance is fast emerging as an important mechanism to finance health care needs of the people. The need for an insurance system that works on the basic principle of pooling of risks of unexpected costs of persons falling ill and needing hospitalization by charging premium from a wider population …
The objective of this report is to identify ways in which governments and external support agencies (ESAs) can increase access to finance for small-scale WATSAN providers, by channelling public funding to support the market and leverage private sector financing. The ultimate objective in doing so is to increase access to …
India’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) is a one of its kind country level initiative that aims to help achieve the intertwined national objectives of ensuring energy security for the country and bringing about sustainable and environmentally efficient growth through large scale deployment of on-and off-grid solar power applications. …
In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru and Zambia, this briefing informs government leaders, policymakers and key stakeholders of the Scaling Up Nutrition movement: …
Almost two years after it was passed by Parliament, the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010, has now been notified by the Union Government. Notified on February 28, it has come into force in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim and all Union Territories from March 1. The Act …
This paper provides early and robust evidence on the impact of publicly-financed health insurance schemes on financial risk protection in India’s health sector. It conclusively demonstrates that the poorer sections of households in intervention districts of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna , Rajiv Aarogyasri of Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu …
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and others (“Land Acquisition and Dispossession: Private Coal Companies in Jharkhand”, EPW, 11 February 2012), touch on several important issues, but with a sophistication which is expected from academics. The piece, however, portrays only the tip of the iceberg; the grass-roots situation is much more serious and tense. …
The path drawn up by the government’s first-ever official agriculture survey in suggesting more private investment in farming is likely to find resonance in this year’s Budget. Officials said apart from infrastructure and skill development, agriculture could be the next big focus area. In 2009-10, private sector investment in agriculture …
The first agriculture survey, tabled in Parliament on Monday, called for more private participation to boost farm sector investments, rather than heavy doses of subsidies. “There is always a trade-off between allocating money through subsidies or by increasing investments. The investment option is much better than subsidies for sustaining long-term …
THE 1993 World Development Report (WDR) was subtitled ‘Investing in Health’ and advanced the argument that better health outcomes facilitate economic development.1 Even if one contests the direction of causation, correlation between better health outcomes and higher levels of economic development is not in doubt.
As Europe moves towards privatization of fisheries, it is faced with the dilemma of balancing social and economic objectives in the new Common Fisheries Policy.
Today, people are protesting against illegal and unjust land grabbing across the country, and it is clear for all to see that the process of land acquisition is unjust and driven by private interests. At this time, the UPA government is introducing a Bill that will supposedly address these issues. …
This State of Indian Agriculture 2011-2012 released by the Agriculture Ministry calls for wide-ranging reforms in agriculture sector to enable it to meet the growing demands and meet challenges posed by the human & environmental factors. The report on the State of Indian Agriculture calls for wide-ranging reforms in agriculture …
India has historically subsidized energy with the objective of protecting its consumers from international price volatility and providing energy access for its citizens, especially the poor. However, energy subsidies place a heavy burden on government budgets, while often failing to reach their targeted beneficiaries. This guide focuses on the scale …
Operation and maintenance to be privatised in Golden Rock zone In an ambitious attempt to improve energy efficiency and cut down on its power bill, the Tiruchi Corporation has decided to take up a pilot project with private participation to replace all tube lights used for street lighting with light …
This vaccine policy is more about spending and coverage, than about protecting children. It is not designed to enhance national public capacities for public immunization programmes, but to justify spending public money on public private partnerships (PPPs) or privately produced vaccines in the name of protection from diseases, whose incidence …
