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 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.
The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming …
The objective of this primer is to introduce the water law and policy framework in India, including the ongoing water sector/ law reforms, to members of the public, civil society organisations, and government representatives. The primer encapsulates water laws, the current water law reforms; their impacts and issues for further …
ITANAGAR: The newly formed Nabam Tuki Government has paved way for massive private investments in various viable sectors of the State with the Cabinet today unanimously adopting the State PPP Policy 2011. This path-breaking initiative will open up the gates for development of various infrastructure sectors, both physical and social, …
The Tiruchi Corporation has decided to privatise maintenance of drainage channels and sanitation works at the Central and Chathram bus stand and Gandhi Market in the city in view of the shortage of sanitary workers in the civic body. The corporation, a few years ago, had privatised sanitation works at …
Maharashtra says it could go against existing franchisee norms Power distribution utilities of three States including Maharashtra have objected to the proposed suggestions by a sub-group of the Task Force on Private Participation in the Power Sector of the Planning Commission. They feel the proposals could go against existing franchisee …
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 …
The transformation of human settlements over time can affect the relationship between communities and commons when, for example, social geographies change from rural to urban, or from traditional systems of management to modern bureaucratic systems. Communities that were dependent on particular commons could become less dependent, or abandon those commons. …
Andhra Pradesh’s Aarogyasri programme has placed health on the political map in the state and is popular with the masses. However, corporate hospitals handle the biggest share of the cases and there is no provision for outpatient treatment of everyday illnesses that affect the working capacity of the patient. The …
This briefing gives an overview of the key REDD+ issues, in particular: integrating mitigation and adaptation actions; addressing tenure; learning from participatory forest management and payment for ecosystems services; taking the right approach to gender; developing safeguards to minimize negative impacts of REDD+; and strengthening South-South collaboration to reduce the …
The Review of Developments in Transport in Asia and the Pacific 2011 is a biennial publication of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The review contains: the changing economic and social landscape; railways; roads and highways; maritime ports and developments in shipping; dry …
Thousands of cities in the developing world face rising pressures on water provision due to population growth and urbanization, and climate change worsens these impacts. Coordinating the formal and informal water sectors, improving water storage and management, and bringing community voices into water planning are critical to sustainably providing water, …
Addressing the challenges of water management and governance in rural and urban areas, this new IDFC report deals with water politics, leakage of water in urban areas as well as the lack of water recycling mechanisms. Addressing the challenges of water management and governance, the India Infrastructure Report 2011 brings …
This paper examines the private sector’s progress in adapting to climate change by considering information from sixteen case studies, drawn from a range of industries across the private sector. This is complemented by a high-level analysis of broader private sector adaptation based on responses to the 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project …
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 …
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 …
