-PTI NEW DELHI: The government is working on a policy to bring down the annual oil import bill by $100 billion by 2030 through extensive use of methanol in cooking gas and transportation fuel, union minister Nitin Gadkari told Lok Sabha on Thursday. The government was "shortly" going to implement a scheme under which 15 per cent methanol will be blended with petrol and which will reduce the cost of the fuel...
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India can exceed its climate goals while maintaining GDP of 6-7%: report -Mayank Aggarwal
-Livemint.com India can meet its national climate change goals promised under the Paris Climate Agreement, says report by World Resources Institute and Open Climate Network New Delhi: Not only can India meet its national climate change goals promised under the Paris Climate Agreement, but can potentially exceed them while maintaining an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6-7%, said a new report released on Wednesday. The report, “Pathways For Meeting India’s Climate...
More »Gujarat's Adivasi Migrants: Unseen and Unheard by Party Manifestos -Divya Varma and Sangeeth Sugathan
-TheWire.in An estimated 35 lakh Adivasis in Gujarat seasonally migrate to cities for work but the grand electoral promises of BJP and Congress fail to acknowledge their issues. Sharma Bhuriya seems disillusioned with the recently released party manifestos ahead of the Gujarat elections. “There is nothing in it for people like me. I have been living on pavements in Ahmedabad for more than 20 years now and have been thrown around like...
More »Puri defies economists, says Delhi metro woes not due to fares -Jasmine Shah
-The Indian Express DMRC and Union minister for urban development Hardeep Singh Puri are right that the daily ridership of Delhi metro hasn’t declined by 3 lakhs due to fare hike. It has declined by 4.8 lakhs. Economists are frequent targets of ridicule by politicians for failing to predict crises or having vastly differing opinions of major economic events (e.g. demonetisation). But all economists agree on one fundamental tenet — demand reduces...
More »Delhi Metro ridership falls by 3.2 lakh during fare-hike month
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro witnessed a massive dip of more than three lakh in daily ridership in October this year as compared with the previous month. This is the steepest month-to-month fall in Metro ridership ever and appears to be linked to the fare hike in October. On October 10, the Delhi Metro rail Corporation (DMRC) implemented the second phase of fare hike after the first round of...
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