Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional mandates, many Indian cities are seeking to resolve the issue through parking policies, focusing on regulations, pricing as a management tool, new technologies, and off-street parking provisions. …
With summer setting in, complaints of inadequate or no water supply has already increased by 20 per cent at the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (BWSSB) call centre since the first week of March. Unlike the previous year, which saw a severe water crisis after reservoirs ran dry due …
Memorandum sent to Mr. Madhav Gadgil, Honorable Chairman Western Ghats Experts Panel objecting Gundia hydel project. Gundia is located amidst the thick ever green rain forests of Western Ghats, and surrounded by one of the longest stretches of rain forests in the western ghats. These forest have rich in bio-diversity …
This is Equations letter to Shri. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forest (MoEF), on comments on the Pre Draft CRZ Notification 2010 in the context of tourism. Equations continue to demand for a comprehensive legislation and not a notification to regulate coastal activities, to protect coasts and …
The provisions contained in this renewable energy policy will be applicable to all the renewable energy projects. This policy will be applicable to all the Renewable Energy projects sanctioned prior to the commencement of the policy and those renewable energy projects in the process of development including already commissioned renewable …
The Mayapuri accident is not a one-off occurrence. This document lists 16 occasions in which sources of radiation have been lost, stolen or misplaced from radiological facilities in India over the last ten years. The document also lists some accounts of accidents and near-misses in the country
The chemical and synthetic fertilizers, particularly Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK), are highly subsidized. The amount of subsidy on this has grown exponentially during the last three decades from a mere Rs. 60 crore during 1976-77 to an astronomical Rs. 40,338 crore during 2007-08. In 2008-09, it shot up to …
Bangalore and surrounding cities are intending to implement a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and in order to sensitise the officials on the importance of having BRT as a mass transit system the following workshop was conducted. This report will summarise the various organisations that were involved in this one day …
Building on its current strengths and a capacity of 2400MW Karnataka intends to establish a dynamic renewable sector with emphasis on different forms of generation-wind, mini hydro, biomass, cogeneration and solar. This renewable energy policy aims at systematic and faster development of Renewable Energy sources to achieve a capacity of …
EQUATIONS was invited by the Member Planning Commission Mr Arun Maira in November 2009 to write about our vision for tourism for India. This came about after a series of discussions with him about our concerns related to tourism development in India and how the Planning Process of the Five …
The Indian forests are home to around 100 million people and provide sustenance to them. The paper traces the impacts of Indian forest polices, legislations on rights of communities and its links to conservation in the pre- colonial and post independent India. Within the existing framework of national forest laws, …
The advent of scientific shrimp farming in India during 1990-91 not only boosted shrimp production but also attracted criticism on the grounds of generating adverse environmental and social impact challenging the sustainability of the system. Thus while examining the performance of alternative shrimp farming systems incorporating of the cost of …
Management of water resources is crucial for supporting livelihoods, particularly marginal communities. The study aims at understanding the livelihood patterns of fishermen within the Tungabhadra sub basin, a tributary of river Krishna located in peninsular India. Household surveys, focus group discussions and interviews were carried out in order to understand …
Because of lack of proper sanitation, communicable diseases spread causing considerable loss and disabilities to human resources. Considering this, the international community has set the provision of sanitation as part of the Millennium Development Goals, aiming to reduce the number of those without adequate sanitation facilities to half by the …
This paper estimates the environmental efficiency of Indian cement industry within a joint production framework of both desirable & undesirable output using Data Envelopment Analysis. Shows that this industry, if subjected to environmental regulation, has potential of expanding desirable output & reducing the undesirable one from the given inputs. However …
The focus of the study is to examine what is happening on the ground in terms of practices and processes, and the role of principal actors in such processes striving to implement such as the Hariyali Guidelines for the effective management of watershed development. More specifically, the study aims at …
The urbanisation of the state has thrown up a number of challenges. The re-distribution of political power away from the villages, the migration of large numbers of people to cities (including from other states), the changing nature of the new economy, the threats to the environment and the character of …
This Public Interest Litigation is filed by Sri Sathyamoorthy, claiming to be a public spirited citizen, interested in safeguarding the public at large, against the exploitation of iron ore minerals in Karnataka.
Christ University was formerly Christ College (Autonomous) affiliated to Bangalore University. Established in July 1969, Christ College became the most preferred educational institution in the city of Bangalore within the first three decades. From 1990 onwards it scaled from heights to heights. By the introduction of innovative and modern curriculum, …
