Renewable energy: India achieves half of its fiscal target in seven months
While wind power sector has not shown much growth, solar power is undergoing an unprecedented expansion
Fifteenth Finance Commission: Over Rs. 4.36 lakh crore for local governments
Local governments will get special health grants
Union Budget 2021-22 earmarks Rs 3 lakh crore to power sector recovery
Fund to be released based on financial performance, viability demonstration by distribution companies
The idea of a COVID-19 cess: Good for the Centre, bad for states
New tax rates can be introduced instead, especially on the super-rich whose incomes have been relatively less affected
Union Budget 2022-23: Just 70 weeks left for India@75 targets, will Modi deliver the ‘New India’
From the promised $4 trillion economy to employment for women to doubling of farmers’ income to poverty eradication this year, most of the …
How to counter Trump on trade tariffs and climate inaction? Impose carbon charges on US imports
Trade and climate policy experts give a detailed roadmap for a carbon-based response to US tariffs
GOBAR-Dhan: Scheme announced in budget a welcome step, but challenges ahead
Biogas can be purified and upgraded up to 98 per cent of purity to make it suitable to be used as a green fuel for transportation or filling of …
Leaving the farmer in his agony
The BJP government is set on introducing policies which will deepen the agrarian crisis instead of reviving the rural economy
Union Budget 2018: Merely increasing funds for Clean Ganga will not ensure results
A CAG report had said underutilised funds and an absence of a long-term plan affecting rejuvenation of Ganga
Katowice offers last chance
To limit warming to 1.5°C, countries must revise national plans at the upcoming climate conference
Forests can keep our planet cool
Improving our forests and farm practices offers a low-risk path for climate mitigation, while securing the lives of traditional communities
Budget push for zero budget farming but contradictions mar Andhra’s natural agri foray
The method was promoted as low-cost investment on part of farmers, but huge amounts are being raised for statewide implementation
No elixir for rural India: Union Budget 2023-24 has very little to offer the rural population; here’s why
The last full budget before the incumbent party seeks re-election in May 2024 should have targeted India’s suffering rural folk to enable …
Forget Union budget, track state budgets now
States, already flush with cash surplus of Rs 1.6 lakh crore, will get significantly raised share from the central taxes. Along with this …
Carbon budget will exhaust in 10 years at current emission levels: IPCC report
The world can emit approximately 400 billion tonnes more of carbon dioxide before hitting the 1.5°C limit, the report said
Union Budget 2020-21 promises Rs 4,400 cr for clean air; how, where and how soon?
Fiscal promise for clean air action without a blueprint for spending; even after a year of NCAP, output & outcome indicators not available in …
Is the government's Ujjwala target achievable?
The ambit of the Ujjwala scheme is to be increased from five crore to eight crore beneficiaries
Budget 2018: To make India open defecation-free, Centre must invest less in building toilets
The focus should be on educating people and building capacity for effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission
Central concerns
In a bid to give more fiscal autonomy to states, the Centre in the last budget gave them a higher share in Union tax receipts. Has this helped …
Financial devolution
With increased funds and Centrally Sponsored Schemes, India’s states now urgently need the institutional mechanism to manage this responsibility
Why US-China climate deal is neither ‘historic’ nor ‘ambitious’
It will take the world towards a catastrophic beyond 4°C temperature increase pathway
Budget brings no relief to health sector
FM does not mention Universal Health Coverage, combines rural and urban health missions while making allocations
Clean energy, renewables, stubble burning: What the Union Budget 2021-22 missed
The budget lost the opportunity to address rural sector, where the Ujjwala Scheme will be extended to only one crore additional beneficiaries
Union Budget 2022-23: Activists express disbelief at sanction of money for river interlinking
River interlinking projects including Ken-Betwa do not have statutory clearances, are sub judice and have hardly progressed in the last two …
Democratic choice held hostage to cash: A tale of Odisha's urban poor
Though political parties deny such claims and these “incidents” often go unnoticed, the truth is that the poor consider elections to …