Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
The report first sets the context for a discussion of trade policy interventions in the context of evolving structures of production and trade, stressing the importance of the roles that the agriculture sector can play in countries at different levels of development and the fact that policy interventions will need …
The Food Security Atlas of Rural Bihar is one of a series of eight Atlases produced by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The other states covered in this series are: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. The Atlases …
Amid all the talk of caps, targets and trading, it is easy to forget who is ultimately responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. I have long argued that climate change begins at home. Each of us in the developed world has played our part in creating this problem …
Have you ever noticed a friend or neighbour driving a new hybrid car and felt pressure to trade in your gas guzzler? Or worried about what people might think when you drive up to the office in an SUV? If so, then you have experienced the power of reputation for …
The basic objective of the National Consumer Policy is the need to ensure that goods, services and technology are available to the consumers at reasonable prices and at acceptable standards of quality. India has a wide variety of consumers, ranging from the highly educated and wealthy whose consumption is focused …
Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions. We use a behavioral approach to examine the reasonably achievable potential for near-term reductions by altered adoption and use of available technologies in US homes and …
The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently. The committee has defined the poor based on a normative living standard — it has …
Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Furthermore, while high international food prices provide appropriate incentives for agricultural development, it would be misguided to expect that they will automatically result in …
Way Out: Govt-To-Govt Imports Or Allowing State Units To Source For Welfare Needs Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI THE rice output for 2009-10 may be weaker at 82 million tonne (MT), a drop of 17 mt over record 99.15 mt output in 2008-09, according to US Department of Agriculture. Considering an …
LUCKNOW: The CNG crisis in the city might get a solution around 2010, when two major CNG stations, planned at Gomtinagar and Aashiana, get functional. The laying of pipelines for two stations has started. Gomtinagar is a mother station waiting in wings for long mainly because GGL has not got …
This document is the first issue of new Policy Brief series, presented by Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI). These briefs are designed to provide timely analysis and policy guidance on emerging subsidy issues. The first brief canvasses the G-20 recent call to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels and considers how …
Atmanand : All types of energy use results in environmental costs. Our transportation, food production, manufacturing, governments, recreation and household management all consume energy. At the same time, our major energy supplies (oil, coal and gas) are finite. They are not renewable, yet we burn through these fuels as if …
NAVI MUMBAI: In a bid to mitigate the power crisis faced by the industries, the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is setting up a natural gas infrastructure at the industrial estates, including Thane, Dombivli, Navi Mumbai, Taloja, Poisar, Palghar, etc. According to MIDC, the corporation plans to supply gas to …
