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Exploring Possibilities
Panchayats can be encouraged to take up decentralised power distribution which will lead to increased community ownership of projects, upkeep and maintenance of services. In fact since the estimated w...
Electricity Regulation in India
The Indian electricity sector, despite strings of reforms during the last one and half decades, is still struggling to close the gap between demand and supply. Power sector targets set for the last th...
Adapting India’s Energy Needs to Climate Change
India energy scenario is fast adapting to the changing climatic regimes with new low carbon technologies, energy efficiency and renewables striding into prominence. Shri H S Brahma, Secretary, Minis...
Capturing the Carbon Space
While the developed countries want the developing countries to put caps on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), the emerging economies want the advanced countries to accept deeper cuts in GGE and also prov...
Green Grid
Shri S K Chaturvedi, CMD, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., in conversation with the editor, affably offers insights on issues of sustainable grid management and outlines mechanisms to increase gr...
Millennium Development Goals Stands for Indian Women
Poverty statistics related to income largely ignores the gender dimensions of deprivation which are picked up by other measures such as levels of malnutrition, hours of physical work, morbidity and di...
Utilising Surplus Rainwater In India
Ample surplus rainwater is available in river basins of India. Any use and exploitation of this surplus rainwater must be based on an analysis of 4 to 10 times longer data of the past.
Houses of Mud
For those not yet fixated on the inevitability of the use of modern materials for their much vaunted strength, mud houses can be a liberating way to meet housing needs, private and public, without ext...
State of India’s Forest
The total forest cover of the country as per the 2007 assessment of State of Forest Report is 78.37 million hectares which constitutes 23.84 per cent of the geographic area of India.