Simi Mehta and Amita BhaduriSanitation workers are out in full force tasked with disinfecting the public spaces as COVID-19 crisis continues to impact the country on top of other serious challenges faced by our WASH sector. Sanitation workers are those who work in...
Madhav Chavan*The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education systems around the world including in India. Extended school closures coupled with unequal access to technology and other disruptions have led to fears regarding the reversal of progress made by the country’s...
Gurinder Kaur*According to the Statement on Climate of India During 2020, 2020 is the eighth hottest year in India since 1901. The country's average temperature has risen by 0.62 degrees Celsius. The twin decades- 2001-2010 and 2011-2020, have been...
Gurinder Kaur*After being sworn as the United States' new president, Joe Biden requested the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement on the very first day of his term, to which Guterres assented.Responding to...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Ritika Gupta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Nikhil Jacob“Back in 1991, when economic reforms were introduced under the then Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, I asked him how do you propose to protect the environment given that liberalization...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Nikhil JacobThere has been a formidable pressure on the government to deliver a futuristic framework for economic revival post the devastating pandemic. All sections of the society looked towards the Budget...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Ritika Gupta, Nikhil Jacob, Manoswini SarkarFrom the lens of water professional, Dr Indira Khurana, Vice-Chair, Tarun Bharat Sangh, who has worked in the domain of drinking water and water resources for several years, the budget...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Manoswini SarkarExpressing his displeasure over the absence of the term ‘ecology’ from the Budget speech at a time when the world is combating the ill effects of climate change, Mr Himanshu...
Ashish KothariIn 1991, when the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh ushered in ‘economic reforms’ that catapulted India into the global economy, I had asked him a question in a public lecture he gave, about how he intended to balance...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Manoswini SarkarSeveral environment institutions and organizations play a critical role in aspects of data collection, monitoring, law enforcement and conservation. Capacity building, personnel training and adequate funding are of paramount significance...
