DINESH KUMAROur water sector today is facing insurmountable problems. A country with 130 crore mouths to feed, with rapid urbanization and industrialization and changing consumption patterns and life styles, the challenges facing the water managers of our country are...
DINESH KUMARAfter the submission of the report A 21st Century Institutional Architecture for India’s Water Reforms, the Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Ministry of Water Resources http:// wrmin.nic.in/writereaddata/Report_on_Restructuring_CWC_CGWB.pdf), Govt. of India on Restructuring CWC and CGWB, Dr Mihir Shah, had given...
Tikender Singh PanwarChildren of the Himalayas will inherit not just a warmer world, but one marked by perpetual instability — unless the trajectory of response changes radically.A woman at a residential area in the aftermath of a cloudburst at...
DINESH KUMARWater problems are not new in India. They have been there for many millennia in different forms—water scarcity, droughts, floods, water logging, water contamination, etc. We have been finding solutions to these problems at different points in time,...
DINESH KUMAROne of the oldest water treaties on the planet which was over sharing of waters between two nations of South Asia that came into existence in 1960 and survived several tensions and military conflicts between them was kept...
DINESH KUMARIt has been almost three decades since the efforts to pitch groundwater against surface water began in India by a bunch of researchers and academicians, with the sole aim of proving that the former (groundwater) is better than...
Tikender Singh PanwarHimachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu during a visit to the Government Senior Secondary School, Baga-Sarahhan, Kullu district on June 18. | Photo Credit: PTIThe story so far: When the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2025 results were...
Policy UpdateSivapriyaBackground:The Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS) is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the Department of Higher Education, established in February 2019. It operates with the main aim of...
Policy UpdateRadhika GuptaIntroductionIndia has the largest youth population in the world, with approximately forty percent of the global youth present in the country. This is often referred to as a ‘youth bulge’, which helps a country foster economic growth...
Policy UpdateNomula Pranay GoudSource: https://mapservice.gov.in/gismapserviceMVCBackground Bharat Maps is an integrated Geospatial Portal of the Survey of India, the National Mapping Agency of India, functioning under the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is officially the web-based GIS (Geographic Information System)...
