15 lessons for India

As odd-even traffic restrictions in Delhi draw to a close, we highlight the takeaways from this massive community initiative to curb air …

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

लाभार्थियों को नया वोट-बैंक बना रही मोदी सरकार

नरेंद्र मोदी लोगों को अधिकार देने की सोच के उलट कल्याणकारी योजनाओं से उन्हें उपकृत कर सरकार चलाना चाहते हैं

India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

Paying farmers for ecological services

Walk the village talk

After raising the political profile of village councils, government wants to downsize them

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …

Losers again

Are our budgets participatory?

Legislative scrutiny of budget in India compares with that of Afghanistan and Rwanda

Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included

Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

Will India officially be poverty free in 2023?

National Statistical Office rolling out consumption expenditure sample survey; may note impact of central schemes adding to people’s income

Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood

The river has strayed from its flood control route

A million opportunities lost

The ruling alliance’s flagship rural employment programme took unprecedented strides in creating water conservation structures across the …

The panchayat outrage

It was a vote for self-governance, not self-determination. No panchayat election in the country ever created as much hype as that of Jammu and …

Environment Day: Green agenda for new government

Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister