Incomplete irrigation projects overshoot budget

The state governments' failure to complete irrigation projects has led to an escalation of their combined cost by close to a whopping one lakh …

Double victims

Latur earthquake victims being given false promises

Unfriendly neighbourhoods

In their rush to meet the housing requirements of cities, planners are turning a blind eye to the quality of the built environment

Planning for a mega - city

The waste conundrum

An experiment of decentralized solid, liquid and energy management in a Delhi colony is unique because the efficient functioning of a well …

New-look farming fumbles to an erratic start

The Planning Commission is embarking on a new approach to agriculture planning. But state governments and the finance ministry are reluctant to …

Community welfare works as a contraceptive

In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social …

Government is a loss-making proposition

Shut it down

Veerappa Moily to 'revisit' report on Western Ghats

The decision may be a tactic to buy time before 2014 Lok Sabha elections

India’s carbon roadmap

US, China count their poor afresh. India looks away

Heading towards a cliff

As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor

Institutional monitoring of PPP projects made mandatory

Agencies, ministries implementing such projects will need to set up monitoring units to ensure private concessionaires follow Planning Commission …

BASIC distinct

Developing countries isolate Copenhagen Accord

Diesel prices: don’t miss the point

Fuel price reform is inevitable and necessary, but clean fuel and public transport agenda for health protection must not be derailed

Bihar plans policy change to push urbanisation

The state government has prepared a draft seeking changes to ‘old criteria’ for notifying semi-urban or rural area as urban 

Simply Put : Ahmedabad wall

स्मार्ट सिटी मिशन की हालत खस्ता, 21 प्रतिशत फंड ही खर्च हुआ

जिन 100 शहरों को स्मार्ट सिटी बनाना है, उनमें से केवल 22 शहरों में ही स्मार्ट सड़कें और 15 शहरों में ही स्मार्ट सौर ...

India's data blockade: Certainly uncertain terrain

No recent NSSO survey release passed without controversy

Yojna Banao Abhiyan - then a hit, now a miss

The local administration in Jharkhand is undermining the decentralised scheme, created to enhance livelihood, manage natural resources and …

NITI Aayog begins business without action plan

Will the Aayog's vision be any different than the top-down approach of its predecessor, the Planning Commission? 

Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of

More than 25,000 delegates will meet in Quito in October to set out a New Urban Agenda for the UN, to be implemented over the next 20 years

How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm

Sustainable agriculture in Africa has the ability to act as an example for other regions worldwide. But to do this the approaches and technology …

Family without mother

Protest>> Family Planning • Iran

Women to the fore

The International Conference on Population and Development is doing more than just providing lip service to the cause of women