Boon or bane?

The condition in electrified villages is no better than that of the unelectrified ones in Bihar's Saran district. The voltage is so low that even …

Jyoti Dar – Director, Kuvam Energy

As the founder director of Kuvam Energy Pvt. Ltd, Jyoti Dar has spent the past five years to reduce India’s dependence on coal and fossil …

With over 30 million households yet to be electrified, Saubhagya Yojna way behind the target

To achieve the target under Saubhagya scheme, the government has to electrify 130, 802 houses each day till December 31, 2018

Remote and disconnected

When it comes to rural electrification, Odisha presents the dual challenge of dense forests and scattered tribal hamlets

Modi’s burden of civilising rural India

Our prime minister’s recognition of ‘uncivilised’ state of rural India means he should be spending more on ‘civilising&…

Current distress

Six states, 30 villages, 13,000 kilometres. Down To Earth travelled to some of the most remote villages of the country to assess India's progress …

Odisha report on housing ‘irregularities’ under Centre’s lens

MPs allege that 85% of 1.2 million PMAY-G beneficiaries in state ineligible for scheme

How will science aid development in India in near future?

The theme of the 102nd session of the Indian Science Congress—Science and Technology for Human Development—happens to echo the …

NDMA drill had exposed gaps in state’s disaster management plan

Uttarakhand government took no step to address shortcomings in three years

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds

15 doctors went on foreign jaunt sponsored by pharma company, says Lok Sabha member

Doctors and pharma company deny charges

NHRC orders judicial probe into Seshachalam ‘encounter’

Witnesses depose before human rights commission, challenge the ‘self-defence’ argument of Andhra Pradesh Special Task Force

Experts disappointed with budgetary allocation to renewables

There has been a 46.8 per cent decrease in gross budgetary support for renewable energy ministry, they say

Push to include access to energy in UN development goals

Speakers at a consultative meeting in Delhi call for finding sustainable and affordable technological solutions for making energy accessible to …