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Need for Ecologically Smart Cities in India
Harini NagendraIndia has been urbanizing rapidly in recent years, but the poorly managed urban growth and development have exacerbated inequalities, exclusion, and vulnerabilities, especially...
Havoc in the upper Himalayas: Need to Change the Uttarakhand’s Economic...
Gurinder KaurRecent havoc in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, where a large part of the Nanda Devi Glacier fell into the Alaknanda stream near...
Participatory municipal budgeting makes the real difference
Srikanth ViswanathanThe budget season is upon us. The Union budget, which lays out the receipt and expenditure proposals of the Government of India, is...
COP26 and India’s NDCs
Simi Mehta, Ritika Gupta, Manoswini SarkarClimate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the moment. It...
India Needs Accountability, Clean Up of Politics and End of Cronyism...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Nikhil JacobThe pandemic pushed the Indian economy to the greatest crisis that it ever had to...
Budget 2021 Tries to Mask the Truth – Dr Jyotsna Jha...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil JacobThe Union Budget 2021 has taken a cue from the Economic Survey and focused on growth. In...
Local Body Elections, Unsustainability of the Processes
Tikender PanwarExcept in a few, both urban and rural, elections to the local bodies passed off peacefully in Himachal Pradesh a few weeks ago....
The Definition of Urban is very Stringent – Prof Jyoti Chandiramani...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil JacobThe decade of 2010 – 2020 could be considered as the ‘lost decade’. The uncertainties surrounding a...
Budget 2021: A brief Analysis and Way Forward by Ms Malini...
Budget 2021 was riding on a wave of immense expectations, given that the Indian economy was battered to a record low due to structural...
Supreme Court’s Forestland Ruling: What Lessons can Himachal Pradesh Learn from...
Gurinder KaurOn February 15, 2021, a three-judge green bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde allowed the Himachal Pradesh government to...














