-The Indian Express In its report submitted to the MEA, the panel has said that in keeping with global practices, the ministry must consider doing away with these details. New delhi: IN VIEW of complaints, especially from women, of procedural harassment in passport offices, an inter-ministerial panel has recommended that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) should do away with the practice of printing details of a person’s father, mother or spouse...
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Grit and a fistful of infested rice -Swapna Majumdar
-The Hindu Business Line How the women of Deoria challenged the public distribution system malpractices Women no longer have to return empty-handed from the fair price shops mandated to give rations under the government’s public distribution system in village Bandgunia in Uttar Pradesh. Not only is the full quota of rice, pulses and sugar given, the shopkeeper in this village in Gauri Bazar block of Deoria district also ensures the women are informed...
More »delhi pollution: Sadly, Arvind Kejriwal's emergency plan is old and ineffective -Kanishka Singh
-The Indian Express The CM has ordered schools to remain shut for three days and halted construction of roads for five days. New delhi: delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced emergency measures for reducing the alarming air pollution levels in the Capital. However, the steps announced seem too little too late. One can recall the orders given last winters by the Supreme Court to reduce air pollution in the city and...
More »Right to clean air -Anurag Agrawal
-The Hindu As I write this column, my gaze is on the post-Deepavali haze that has enveloped delhi. As a third-generation asthmatic, with a fourth-generation asthmatic daughter, it is set me wondering whether returning to delhi, the city of my birth, from the United States a decade ago was a mistake. This haze is smog (smoke + fog), a hazardous mix of noxious gases and very high levels of suspended respirable...
More »Addressing energy poverty in India -Debajit Palit
-The Hindu Business Line The spread of rural electrification has been overestimated, and the adoption of subsidised LPG has not picked up It is little more than a year since the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed to at the UN General Assembly. SDGs are a set of 17 goals that are intended to dramatically improve lives across the world by 2030. A major goal is SDG7 which aims to ensure universal access...
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