Indira Gandhi’s elite environmentalism : a paler shade of green
Darryl D’Monte reviews Indira Gandhi – A Life in Nature , a new book focussing on Indira Gandhi as a naturalist.
THE NEWS IN PROPORTION
20 September 2017
Environment
BOOK REVIEW
Indira Gandhi’s elite environmentalism : a paler shade of green
Indira Gandhi’s elite environmentalism : a paler shade of green
LARGE HYDROPOWER PROJECTS
Throwing good money after bad
Shripad Dharmadhikary critically examines the proposed push for hydro power projects in the recently released Draft National Energy Policy for public comments by NITI Aayog.
MUMBAI FLOODS
Mumbai after the 2005 deluge
July 26, 2017 marked the 12th anniversary of Mumbai’s mega flood in 2005. Darryl D’Monte looks into the causes and effects of the deluge.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Holding a municipality accountable
Hasmukh Dhumadiya describes the ordeal of residents of Bakshipunch Society in Dwarka, Gujarat, and their efforts in overcoming it.
COAL HANDLING
Residents using rule of law to secure justice
Hasmukh Dhumadia narrates his experience of helping the local residents of a village in Gujarat in their fight for environmental justice.
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT
The need to reform environment clearance process
Debadityo Sinha discusses how a coal power plant managed to receive environmental clearance by giving false information, which the National Green Tribunal finally overturned.
CRITICALLY POLLUTED AREAS
Crying out for strong environmental regulator
Himanshu Upadhyaya takes a close look at the Critically Polluted Areas mentioned in a recent CAG audit report on the environmental clearances and post clearance monitoring process of Ministry of Environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVALS
Environment Ministry to bend over backwards to whitelist illicit projects
A new notification from the ministry lays out a process by which illegal units can be granted clearance and “brought into compliance” within the next six months. Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli report.WORLD BANK
Funding the coal boom
Darryl D’Monte looks into why World Bank through its affiliates continues to fund coal power stations in India despite its claims to contrary.
RESTRUCTURING WATER ORGANIZATIONS
Creating National Water Commission
A recent report suggests merging the Central Water Commission (CWC) and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) into a new organisation to be called the National Water Commission. Shripad Dharmadhikary comments on the report.
TROUBLE AT ALANG
Graveyard of ships struggles to survive
One of the largest ship-breaking yards in the world at Alang in Gujarat is crumbling as the EU Commission and the Supreme Court are now putting pressure to get them to create modern environmentally friendly facilities. If they do not do it, the graveyard of ships will die says Ramesh Menon.
MUMBAI'S WOES
When cities go under
Mumbai is closer to finalising its 20-year development plan, from 2014 to 2034. The plan might be hiding more than it reveals, writes Darryl D'Monte.
DRAFT NATIONAL WATER FRAMEWORK BILL
The right to water for life
The Draft National Water Framework Bill, put out for public comments recently, represents an important and progressive step forward despite some shortcomings and challenges involved in its implementation, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.India Together offers an excellent forum for people from diverse fields of expertise to present their views, share their experiences and raise questions about where our country and society are headed in the future.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
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ENERGY 
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
- Meet the solar sisters
- Lessons for rural electrification from a weaving village
- How badly designed and unsafe
- Trade rules and what they eclipse
- CRZ: Why coastal communities are troubled by these three letters
- The catch regarding Mumbai’s fishing villages
- The alleged sell-out that has left our fishermen fuming
- RTI and EIA collide at NIO
- Withering public consultations
- Rays of hope for the ‘local’ in Meghalaya
- Where are the real tweets in India?
- Where leopards await human compassion
- Shifting goalposts as summit winds down
- The Paris Climate Accord
- Will voluntary action to curb GHG emissions achieve anything?
- Looking beyond ‘Chindia’s’ common cause on climate
- Is the Hubli-Ankola Railway line approved?
- Where is the forest case headed?
- Euphemising forest diversion?
- Is “settling” forest rights in “campaign mode” a good idea?
- What Chernobyl and Fukushima remind us
- The poisons we play with everyday
- Not everyone wants a plastic-free future!
- Coal energy and pollution: Can communities fight the threat?
- Too many questions? Take away the right to ask!
- In Odisha, more tribal voices against mining
- The sand mining conundrum
- Why the Dongria Kondh rejected development in the Niyamgiri Hills
- Old or new, cars must make way for buses
- Will banning older vehicles clean the air in Delhi?
- Finding the right reasons for reform
- An uncertain future for our fauna
- Financing urban development
- Waste pickers live, work with pride
- There's more than meets the Mumbai Eye
- Is Amravati really a 'capital' choice?
- Residents of a municipal dumping site fight back
- India’s sanitation puzzle: Missing the complete picture?
- What's in that compost you are using: burnt waste?
- Those brooms may not be enough to clean our waste!
- Extraction exceeds recharge
- New regulations welcome, but the proof will be in the eating
- Hill women no longer panic over water scarcity
- Losing our rivers to grand plans
- At one with nature while learning about wildlife
- Saving the Malabar Hornbill in the hills of Tamil Nadu
- Missing the woods and the trees
- The tiny creature that has made the Assam zoo famous!
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
- Moulding the young as change agents
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Percolating young minds
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