Telangana

NGT stricter with Delhi, Haryana on restoring Najafgarh Jheel

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 01 Feb, 2022 02:49 PM

Enforce Najafgarh jheel restoration plan: NGT to Delhi, Haryana governments

Aerial view of the Najafgarh drain. (Image: Sumita Roy Dutta, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)

Process of obtaining green nod simplified to allow ease of doing business: Govt

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 05 Jan, 2022 01:04 PM

Environment Ministry reports reduction in environmental clearance time from 150 to 90 days

Ease of doing business at the cost of environment (Source: IWP Flickr Photos) Photo for representation only.

Urban green finance: Case of Hyderabad and Kolkata

Urban green finance flows require the integration of both vertical and horizontal levels of governance

Shreyans Jain

Rajashree Padmanabhi

Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance

Posted on 08 Dec, 2021 12:29 PM

Around 40% of India’s population will live in cities by 2036, according to government projections, but climate change is already exposing these urban areas to extreme water and heat stress.

The pandemic has amplified the need to undertake sustainable activities at the city level (Image: CCFLA)

Rural realities amid second COVID surge in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Rural areas emerge as sites of mass COVID outbreaks

Impact and Policy Research Institute

Posted on 05 Jun, 2021 11:33 AM

COVID-19 has been spreading fast in rural areas while issues related to its management and the government’s response to the pandemic remain.

COVID-19 has had an adverse impact on the livelihood of people doing small jobs due to lockdown. (Image: Gospel for Asia; Wikimedia Commons)

From water carriers to water entrepreneurs

Women become active leaders in the iJal value chain

Sarita Brara

Posted on 31 May, 2021 04:16 PM

Imagine having to travel 7 to 8 kilometers every day to fetch water from a village because t

iJal bridged the gender gap through economic empowerment and reduced the water collection drudgery for women (Image: Safe Water Network)

Green panel clears Central Vista project

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Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 12 May, 2021 12:28 PM

Green panel clears Central Vista projects

Rajpath's Central Vista Avenue project (Image: Students of Master in Sustainable Architecture at Central University of Rajasthan, Counterview)

Pollution levels rising post-lockdown in cities in south India

How clean air gains of the lockdown and monsoon periods have been now lost with the reopening of the economy and with the onset of the winter.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Posted on 08 Feb, 2021 11:23 AM

An analysis was done by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) of winter pollution (until January 26, 2021) in India’s five southern states - a vulnerable but poorly monitored region from the air quality perspective.

Air quality management requires regional approach to implement clean air action plans, says CSE (Image: Pixy)

A rainbow recovery post-COVID

The movement towards radical ecological democracy needs to combine the practical and policy-level grassroots work with broader mobilization.

Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 08 Oct, 2020 12:27 PM

There is a disquieting hush across the world as the linkage between the planet’s health and human well-being became pronounced during the times of the pandemic. The deepening socio-economic and ecological crises caused by patterns of production and consumption are being increasingly recognised.