-Hindustan Times Water management should be at the heart of all smart city planning. While there is a lot of emphasis on transportation and infrastructure development, water management remains limited to treatment of Waste water, quality monitoring, and smart metering in the government’s smart cities strategy. No clear plans have emerged on how smart cities are to be linked with their water catchments to ensure sustainable provision of water. More clarity is...
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'Ruined': Farmers hit as vegetable prices come crashing down after demonetisation -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times The government’s decision to scrap high-value currency has sent wholesale vegetable prices crashing to rock-bottom levels, bringing misery to millions of farmers hoping for good returns for their produce after two successive drought years. Onions sold for just Re 1 per kilogram in wholesale markets at Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch and Mandsaur this week while tomatoes cost less than Rs 2 per kg in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh. A kilogram of cauliflower...
More »Demonetisation effect: Cash-starved anganwadis struggle to feed children -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India There is a trace of pride in Nisha Chaurasiya's voice as she complains of how she and her co-workers in an anganwadi in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh struggled to provide food to babies and children, and to expectant women, since demonetisation took effect on November 8. "The self-help groups borrowed money from everybody, stood in bank queues, pleaded with officials and even spent from their own meagre savings...
More »NGT bans open Waste burning
-PTI Announces a fine of Rs. 25,000 on each incident of bulk Waste burning The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday imposed a complete ban on burning of Waste in open places and announced a fine of Rs. 25,000 on each incident of bulk Waste burning. “We direct that there shall be complete prohibition on open burning of Waste on lands, including at landfill sites. “For each such incident, violators, including project proponent, concessionaire,...
More »The popularity of low-cost canteens shows food security is still a dream for many -Cherian Thomas
-Hindustan Times Low-cost State-sponsored food schemes are mushrooming across India. Inspired by Tamil Nadu’s Amma Canteens – where meals are sold for as little as Rs. 5 - Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and Rajasthan have followed suit and started similar canteens in their states. Madhya Pradesh too is planning to launch a similar subsidised food scheme. The growth of such canteens across India underscores several issues related to the Right to...
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