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Forest restoration

08-Jan-2022

At the COP26 summit, Glasgow, India’s pledge to set a net zero target by 2070 which has highlighted the importance of forests as an undisputed mechanism to help mitigate the challenges of climate change.

India’s unguided quest for solar energy 

06-Jan-2022

At the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, India proclaimed on the global stage that by 2030, it would elevate its renewable power capacity to 500 GW from 150 GW today, and that it would meet 50% of its energy requirements from renewable energy.

Maintain separation of power

05-Jan-2022

A  recent speech by Justice S. Abdul Nazeer of the Supreme Court of India  on the continued neglect of the teachings of the great legal giants of ancient India such as Manu, Kautilya, Yajnavalkya, etc. has evoked vibrant discourse in legal and political circles.

Performance of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

National 04-Jan-2022

The performance of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)  scheme has been found deficient which necessitating urgent need for improvement especially when the novel coronavirus pandemic has resulted in economic shocks for 260 lakh women who deliver on an average a child each year in India.

Beyond the Forest Rights Act

03-Jan-2022

As of April 30, 2020, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs had received 42,50,602 claims (individual and community) under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) , of which titles were distributed to 46% of the applicants.

A good for the dairy sector

31-Dec-2021

Last year, India’s withdrawal from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was a major victory for the farmer’s organisations, trade unions, associations of small and medium industrial producers and civil society groups, which had organised widespread agitations against the free trade agreement.

Anti-dumping duty on Chinese goods

29-Dec-2021

India has imposed an anti-dumping duty on five Chinese products, including certain aluminium goods and some chemicals, for five years to guard local manufacturers from cheap imports from the neighbouring country.

Tackling plastic waste

28-Dec-2021

Recently, the Environment Ministry published draft regulations on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) which according to many experts, disregard the commitments made by the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016; the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016; and the Swachh Bharat Mission..

Assets not dependents

27-Dec-2021

Concerns about “population explosion” have also given way to joy about a “demographic dividend” which is expected to give a push to economic growth due to the lower dependency ratio which results from having a larger proportion of the population in the working-age group.

A public health data architecture for India

24-Dec-2021

The report of the fifth round of the NFHS which was released recently has a large volume of data that is openly accessible.It is the go-to source for many researchers and policy makers and is frequently used for various rankings by NITI Aayog.



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