Small is beautiful

Large-scale industries are not the employment generators

Ideas India

The book celebrates bold enterprises of ordinary Indians

Centre close to finalising captive coal mining policy for small scale industries

New captive coal-mining policy for small-scale industry

Easier to mine

A MEF proposal wants to do away with environmental clearance for small-scale mining

CDM on small industries' agenda

Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

The green goblins

No one's controlling mercury

Making CETPs work

The pollution commons

CETPs: in fashion

Stretch the small horizon

A recent survey conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industries has proposed sweeping policy changes in the smallscale sector to enhance its …

A thing of beauty

It is a wonder! The amount of mudslinging the Taj Mahal provokes, it is surely impossible for this matchless mound of white marble to remain …

Website review: http://www.tarahaat.com

If you are a Net-savvy villager in north India, Tarahaat.com could easily become your favourite haunt on the Web. For starters, the website …

Full-scale review of poverty

What is poverty? The Planning Commission is set to undertake an exercise to find a quantifiable answer to the question. It has proposed to the …

Small policy

The Union government's decision to strengthen small-scale industries will have serious repercussions on the efforts to save environment

Uttaranchal aglow

Hill state leads the way in decentralising electricity generation by granting small-scale industry status to traditional water mills

Small businesses provide most jobs in under developed, developing nations: ILO

Policy makers need to focus on informal sector and small economic units to address fundamental challenges of employment creation and improvement …

Weaving trouble

Kashmir's handmade pashmina shawls have long been threatened by power looms outside the state. The problem has now spread within

Simmering

Pottery units, papad -makers, leather workers, furniture makers, even dance bars: Dharavi is a bustling economy now threatened by builder-driven …

Deadlocked in Aligarh

On the one hand: potholed roads, poor sewage systems, numerous small scale industries, nightmarish working conditions. On the other: clueless …

Dyeing cities

Textile mills of Pali district in Rajasthan and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu have an annual turnover of over Rs 20,000 crore. But the rivers passing …