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Economy

What stops Indian cities from growing their own food?

August 1, 2017 Navya P K

Shrinking land availability, pollution of water sources and the general indifference of urban governments are increasingly leading to a gradual extinction of urban farming and farmers. What could it mean for us?

Society

Proposed heritage law could end up damaging our monuments

July 21, 2017 Ranjit Gadgil

Cabinet-approved amendments to the AMASR Act of 1958 allow construction for ‘public works’ even within the prohibited buffer zone around nationally protected monuments, posing a real threat to these heritage structures.

Environment

Does nature stand a chance in this urbanisation frenzy?

July 13, 2017 Smita Mitra

Indian cities need serious, sustained focus on the various components that can improve and nurture their ecosystems. While a few individual and community driven projects raise hopes, a lot remains to be done.

Civic

Swachh rankings: Why Alappuzha with its award winning system is in the bottom 100

June 20, 2017 Navya P K

The Alappuzha model of waste management was presented as a zero-waste model at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. Yet the city stands at a dismal rank of 380 in the recent clean city rankings. Navya P K finds out why.

Civic

Why India’s clean city rankings need a serious rethink!

June 16, 2017 Navya P K

The top ranked cities in the Swachh Survekshan 2017 undertaken by the MoUD do not segregate, process or dispose of their waste scientifically. In the first part of an in-depth study, Navya P K finds that the survey criteria are in conflict with the government’s own SWM policy!

Environment

What Delhi’s new civic bodies could do to clean the air

April 24, 2017 Yashaswini Mittal

As the national capital elects a new municipality, here’s a look at what the city government could do to tackle its air pollution problem.

Environment

Little hope for clean air in Delhi as crop burning likely to continue

April 13, 2017 News Desk

Denial and lackadaisical attitude in implementing the environment ministry’s Graded Response Action Plan to combat air pollution in Delhi puts citizens at risk, say experts.

Governance

A guide to compensation available for accident victims

March 30, 2017 Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya

If Parliament passes the new Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2016, the sum of compensation available to hit and run victims could go up significantly. But what are the existing legal schemes for compensation and how does one avail that?

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