Launch of State of India’s Environment 2023: In Figures — what to expect & how to register
The e-book will be released in an online event at 12 noon on June 4, 2023
World Environment Day 2023: Rural India bears the brunt of climate change
Climate change is a global challenge with local implications; important to build coping mechanisms for rural communities
Global Hunger Index: India slips to 107 from 101, behind all Asian countries except war-torn Afghanistan
Other countries in the same classification as India include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Zambia, Botswana, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali
As told to Parliament (February 5, 2024): Over 400 MLD industrial effluents discharged into Ganga and Yamuna daily
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Long COVID, mental disorders among diseases to watch in 2023: IHME
Independent global research organisation brought out a list of 11 health issues that should be monitored closely in 2023
Draft Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021: Addressing the bigger problem
The draft proposes increasing thickness of carry bags made of virgin plastic to 120 microns from 50 microns; ban single-use plastic from 2022
Dying for ration: Tribal beneficiaries of Jharkhand PDS don’t have salt, surviving on plain boiled rice
Ration cards for many cancelled; Landless villagers migrate to city for work
Lack of MGNREGS work driving migration in rural West Bengal
Most men, teenage boys left their family behind to find work in other cities after Centre freezed funds to the rural employment scheme …
As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement
Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work
Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21
Dying for ration: Biometric glitches in Rajasthan villages keep the poor hungry
Valid ration card holders turned away from PDS shops as fingerprints don't match in records
Dying for ration: Denied full benefits, 62-year-old widow eats a meal a day to survive
Around 80 households out of 250 denied PDS welfare in Baramsar
Ruto government has its work cut out: Kenya’s development challenges new President must address
Country hopes promises made for agriculture, healthcare, environment, water, housing, sanitation will be fulfilled
Threadbare clothes, school drop outs due to lack of uniforms: West Bengal MGNREGA workers’ lives in tatters
Central government’s freeze on funds for rural employment scheme has completely degraded villagers’ living conditions