The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Future Proofing Indian Cities project represents the first time that evidence on the holistic set of risks and possible solutions to target specific vulnerabilities to risks has been explored for Bangalore and Madurai using the Future Proofing Cities methodology. The project will ultimately provide improved guidance on how these …
The present Statistical Abstract 2014 is the Seventh in the series brought out by this Directorate on the basis of secondary data sources. The uniqueness of Statistical Abstract is that it contains time series data on various socio-economic parameters and serves as an effective quantitative tool for reaching to logical …
For parents who live in the nine million-strong industrial city of Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province, dropping the children off at school is no longer a chore. Starting this year, the Zhengzhou Yuntong bus company-one of the main suppliers of school buses-launched a project that cities across China are …
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched to address the growing challenges of urbanization by improving infrastructure, governance and the quality of life in cities. This paper assesses all the four sub-missions under JNNURM i.e UIG and BSUP for big cities and UIDSSMT and IHSDP for small towns …
This note advises city leaders on how to manage the growth and transformation of urban forms toward an energy efficient and livable path through supportive planning policies, zoning regulations, and design guidelines. Achieving these outcomes requires concerted efforts by city, regional, and national governments in setting a forward-looking strategic vision, …
Union Ministry of Mines and Steel has proposed to create a District Mineral Foundation (DMF) in every district affected by mining, which will be funded by an additional levy related to royalty. The information was given to Shantaram Naik in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday by Minister of State for …
The State Assembly passed the Uttarakhand Green Energy Cess and Uttarakhand ropeways Bill by voice vote on Tuesday. On the second day of the winter session of assembly the parliamentary affairs Minister Indira Hriyadesh tabled these acts which were passed by the assembly. In the Uttarakhand green cess act the …
After the controversy-hit Lavasa and Aamby Valley, construction of Maharashtra’s next new lakeside hill township could begin soon in Pune’s Mulshi taluka, with the state environment authority granting environmental clearances. The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) recently gave clearance for land and infrastructure development for the new hill station, …
The Delhi Jal Board’s interceptor sewer project has been listed in the KPMG’s list of 100 most innovative infrastructure investment projects in the world. The KPMG is one of the largest professional services companies in the world and a major auditor. “The list is an end-result of a careful scrutiny …
A meeting of the Madhya Pradesh Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Wednesday endorsed a new land acquisition policy under which land of private owners would be acquired for projects of public interest only with the consent of the owners. According to the policy, on …
India lost a chunk of its forest wealth in the first six months of 2014 as regional offices and State Advisory Groups (SAGs) of the Environment Ministry approved 50 of the 65 proposals which required clearing of forest lands. While about 77 per cent of the projects were cleared, only …
The rural electrification project, replete with challenges in Bhutan, is likely to miss the December 2014 deadline. Read more in October 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bhutan. Reportage on the state of environment and development in Bhutan remained restricted to the issues habitat and energy. …
Following the zeal to revive river Ganga and blue print presented by the Centre before the Supreme Court to take forward the Clean Ganga Mission, a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the international funding agency World Bank has come up with its bit into it. Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure …
The DELTA State Government has constructed over 1,618 kilometres of roads and 514 kilometres of drains under various programmes under urban renewal and rural iIntegration. They are Highway Development and Drainage Sewerage, Bridge development, Flyover and others since inception in 2007. Over 345km of urban roads have been completed and …
Life-cycle assessments commonly used to analyze the environmental costs and benefits of climate-mitigation options are usually static in nature and address individual power plants. Our paper presents, to our knowledge, the first life-cycle assessment of the large-scale implementation of climate-mitigation technologies, addressing the feedback of the electricity system onto itself …
While the form of its successor organisation is not yet clear, the equanimity with which the end of the Planning Commission, as we've known it, has been received reflects a revolutionary change in Centre-state relations. It acknowledges dramatic economic changes in India since 1991, with the private sector playing a …
This paper investigates the underlying causes of poor economic growth of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, despite being endowed with relatively rich natural resources. Against the conventional view, the analysis reveals that poor economic growth is not due to a particular factor but an outcome of a myriad of …
This working paper is a result of TERI’s year-long study which aimed to develop and test approaches that can increase resilience of infrastructure assets and the services they provide in developing nations. Chapter 1 of the working paper provides a brief introduction to the project. Chapter 2 and 3 provide …
The key objectives of the Industrial Promotion Policy 2014 are: Rationalization and simplification of procedures to ensure effective implementation of policy; To improve investor facilitation and enhance ease of doing business; To create an enabling environment for robust industrial growth; To achieve higher and sustainable economic growth by accelerating the …
