Miles to go

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Exhausting Practices

Prescribed as the antidote for all problems related to vehicular pollution, Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates have been an obsession …

Blind to danger

The government turns a Nelson's eye while the construction sector makes hay on phosphogypsum, a carcinogenic byproduct of the fertiliser industry

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

Tamil Nadu's tank rehab scheme does not hold water

Government approach to restoring traditional waterbodies of Tamil Nadu doesn't hold water

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

Plastic Unlimited

New rules to restrict the use of plastic in India may end up promoting the polymer industry

Landless poor march to Delhi. Then what?

Waiting for a miracle

Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …

Stumbling blocks

The Gujarat earthquake struck at the very foundation of urban India. The disaster highlighted the haphazard manner in which the country's towns …

For India, with fizz

JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health

Petty squabbles signify ill for the forest rights question

Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

Old Batteries New Rules

The Indian government comes out with the draft rules for recycling lead acid batteries. Their effectiveness is questionable

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned

Raw Deal

Scepticism hangs over Kerala's Tribal Rehabilitation and Development Mission and its master plan

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Wasting Away

Despite the deadline for hospitals to set up bio-medical waste disposal methods having expired, nothing has changed

Policy for the environment kept under wraps

Secrecy, economics marks the new way forward

Meta Outstripped

The pace of construction at a controversial copper plant in Goa has not slackened despite protests from the people and the church

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

Bamboo flowering

People in northeast India fear bamboo flowering. According to an ancient belief when bamboos flower, there is death and destruction.

Is it all grey?

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

India's poorest people live in the richest areas Comments from the dialogue on mining organised by CSE