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Changing Patterns of Consumption
Consumption is one of the key indicators of the economy’s performance. Since India has been experiencing relatively higher growth and resultant change in household income distribution, consumption pa...
Mission India-Energy Security
The signing of Paris agreement by India, concomitant with its submission for Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), has charted out the path that India plans to adopt for energy security....
Redefining the Ganga
The Ganga is a diverse and complex system that is currently suffering increased demands, severely affecting the quantity and quality of flow and occupation of ‘river space’. The River needs to be red...
Flood monitoring the remote sensing way
Remote sensing technologies serve as a management tool for authorities to forecast and issue early warning of floods. A Flood Response System developed by C-DAC focuses on near-real time flood monitor...
Upasana Dutta Yogesh Singh Manoj Khare and Sandeep K Srivastava
Groundwater Recharge and Depleting Reserves
An unregulated and nonjudicial development of ground water in two decades or so has resulted in declining ground water levels. Suitable scientific management strategies need to be put in place for aqu...
Groundwater and sustainable Irrigation
The past decades have seen a rapid depletion of groundwater. A dedicated programme in a mission mode for scientifically guided solutions, aimed at water management of complex hydrological systems unde...
Early Cyclone Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction
Early warnings, which includes effective monitoring, detection and prediction of topical cyclones is crucial. Given the several constraints encountered, advanced technologies are fully employed for qu...
Seamless Monsoon Prediction
A dynamical state-of-the-art modelling framework has been setup by IITM for predicting seasonal as well as extended monsoon which IMD uses extensively.
Early Warning of Natural Hazards
Although natural hazards may occur anywhere, their impact in developing countries is greater due to the prevailing economic, social, political and cultural vulnerabilities. A mechanism of early warnin...
India’s faulty mining policy
The New Mining and Mineral Exploration Policy 2015 aims at bringing transparency through e-auctioning of lease. However, the concerns of the mining community need to be taken into account to make mini...