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Even as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announced its long-awaited review of its Project-affected People’s Mechanism at its annual meeting in Egypt 25-26 September 2023, a new research, published by Recourse, Inclusive Development International and Accountability Counsel, has highlig...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Coverage

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October 4, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is produced Since the inception of the first failed WTE plant in Delhi in 1987, successive governm...

Coverage Energy

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September 30, 2023

Anirban Bhattacharya and Pranay Raj

If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Anirban Bhattacharya and Pranay Raj While the government is happy to externalise the crisis to the invasion of Ukraine alone and its effect on fuel prices, it is the food inflation that has seen a much sharper upward swing. “Science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures”: That’s what E...

Coverage General

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September 28, 2023

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak Declining allocations on social welfare spending, and neglect of existing schemes and programmes, underscore how welfare has come to be constrained in the past ten years. While announcing the government’s disinvestment and monetisation of public assets plan in 2021, Prim...

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September 22, 2023

V R Sreya

Is the Pandemic Really Over? Unearthing Stories of Death, Debt and Distress

V R SREYA It’s been three and a half years since COVID-19 was first reported in the country. The country and its people witnessed a lack of preparation by the authorities resulting in a dearth of necessary facilities and security. There’s no justice in sight for those who walked kilometres barefoot,...

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September 18, 2023

Vijoo Krishnan

Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda

Vijoo Krishnan Far from seeing doubled incomes, farmers are caught in the pincer of low unfair prices for their produce and ever rising input costs. Farmers were enticed by Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 with an attractive promise that their produce would be procured at a Minim...

Coverage General Indian Economy

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October 27, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is produced. “This is an emergency situation and the people would be...

Coverage Energy Oil and gas WTE(Waste to Energy)

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August 3, 2023

Rupam Deb

The mismatch in land demand vs land policy in West Bengal’s tea gardens

Rupam Deb This is the first in a two-part series on how workers, who have been toiling for decades in tea gardens, remain deprived of their basic rights and how the government’s lackadaisical attitude to this issue is further exacerbating their plight. Amal Kerketta, a worker at Sailee tea garden in...

Coverage Smitu Kothari Fellowship Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2022

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July 28, 2023

National Herald

India’s smart cities project hounded by delays

The Smart Cities Mission (SCM) aims to tackle India’s rapid urbanization by investing billions into 100 cities across the country. The government hoped to finish it years ago. India’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM) was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June 2015, identifying 100 ci...

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July 28, 2023

Anirban Bhattacharya

To tackle the climate crisis, address inequality

Anirban Bhattacharya Every morning, when we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future. We read about the 54 bodies in the hospital in Ballia who succumbed during a heat wave; the Yamuna seemed to have avenged its neglect in the national capital. We read about the seco...

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Funding 233 projects for $44 billion, AIIB ‘accepts no complaints’ from affected people

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India

Is the Pandemic Really Over? Unearthing Stories of Death, Debt and Distress

Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

The mismatch in land demand vs land policy in West Bengal’s tea gardens

India’s smart cities project hounded by delays

To tackle the climate crisis, address inequality

Funding 233 projects for $44 billion, AIIB ‘accepts no complaints’ from affected people

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India

Is the Pandemic Really Over? Unearthing Stories of Death, Debt and Distress

Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda

How AAP government’s waste management plan is making Delhi toxic

The mismatch in land demand vs land policy in West Bengal’s tea gardens

India’s smart cities project hounded by delays

To tackle the climate crisis, address inequality

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