Niti Aayog’s new strategy: A call for growth or acceptance of failure

Celebrating India's 75th year of Independence is a matter of pride, but achieving a "New India" needs more than a textual articulation

Chhattisgarh tribals to get sterilisation facilities after 30 years

Planning Commission asks state to ensure no discrimination

The electric vehicle boom is coming. What can we learn from early adopters?

From tiered electric rates to equitable taxes, experienced communities have a lot to teach when it comes to managing the anticipated influx of EVs

Intensive agriculture gets a boost

The great divide

Biometric identification attracts major opposition

Demand grows for scrapping the biometric identification system  

The problem with India’s spatial planning: Experts write to PM

Land use planning receives little attention in India, leading to urban sprawl, overcrowding, pollution, traffic congestion, urban flooding

New agenda for Africa’s sustainable urbanisation to be adopted at UN meet in Quito

Weak planning of urbanisation is resulting in lost opportunities for growth and transformation for Africa

Food security is not charity

Give the poor a say in planning and executing drought relief works

Why we should place pedestrians first to create better cities

Apart from pedestrian infrastructure being equitable, continuous, shaded and comfortable, the discourse on pedestrianisation needs to be about …

Restrictions on airing condom ads is absurd at best

The least that the government could have done is issue guidelines for such advertisements

No ambiguity on need for better urban planning

We need to operationalise policy on the assumption that increased frequency of extreme weather events and deepening impacts are the new baseline

Water may shift from State to Concurrent List

Panel to make the suggestion before the Cabinet in June

‘States that use less must get less’

Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional

Sense of self

Biometry’s colonial roots  

Why rapid urbanisation in peri-urban areas is a concern for Chandigarh

 Kharar, an urban settlement in Chandigarh, is witness to fast-track development in the past few years

The curious case of Delhi’s proposed tunnels—if you cannot solve something, make it more complex

This trained urban designer relearns urban planning, desi-style

In Telangana’s Badanpet, a dumpsite turns into a rock garden, nursery

As of now, this nursery is self-reliant in supplying saplings for horticultural purposes, park development, road median development, greening and …

Utter chaos

Faulty and ad hoc urban planning has plunged Indian cities into a vicious transport mess. CSE explains the problem with its study on Alaknanda in …

Life in informal cities

Do slum dwellers feature in the grand plan of smart cities?

Devolve further

Less populous and more homogenous, wards serve Panchayati Raj better

Brief history of a line

The official definition of poverty keeps changing. A look at how the concept evolved Illustrations: Sorit

It’s about the poor

Poverty line figures hide people’s aspirations

BPL: a difficult line to draw

The deprived lot

Andhra Pradesh fails to allocate funds stipulated for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, says Cabinet panel