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Food Security Bill sees light of the day
News this week - Lok Sabha passes the Food Security Bill, floods engulf Gujarat and India bans shark finning.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 01 Sep, 2013 10:28 PM

POLICY MATTERS

Food security bill passed
Affordable food for all (Source: Google Images)
Can we keep blaming dengue on climate change?
Poor sanitation, poor waste management systems and poor urban planning are the real causes of dengue. Find out what we can do to prevent this disease.
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 25 Aug, 2013 10:15 PM

Shantamma woke up one morning with a high fever. She also had a sudden pain at the back of her eyes and severe joint pain. She had been finding it very difficult to move around and go on with her daily routine. And it was quite a tedious routine, which began at 5 a.m. She was a house maid and worked at multiple houses every day.
The dengue-causing Aedes aegypti mosquito (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Vedanta loses the bauxite battle
News this week - No bauxite from Niyamgiri, Delhi government to incentivise solar power and amphibian species near extinction.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 25 Aug, 2013 04:33 PM

Dongria Kondhs win the mining battle
Niyamgiri hills Source: Amnesty International
The Water Catchers
The book is a must-read for children to help them understand the importance of water conservation. Bhairavi Parekh, the author, shares her experience on writing the book and on water.
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 23 Aug, 2013 09:58 PM

'The Water Catchers’ is a story of an unlikely hero, an unassuming boy living in the concrete, water-deprived city of Mumbai. The boy named Chintu, has a simple wish - to find water in the village called Tintodan of his forefathers.
A children's book on water Source-Clker
Blue technologies to fight the water crisis
Industry experts, water purifier companies and civil society groups talk about buyers expectations, market-centric strategies and future trends in household water purifiers for rural areas.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 23 Aug, 2013 09:49 PM

A recent news report said that UNICEF was promoting a machine that purifies sweat from people’s clothes to get potable drinking water (Fox News). Sounds gross?
Conserve drinking water!
Request for proposal 'City Partnerships for Urban Sanitation Service Delivery', Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & UK Department for International Development (DfID)
A proposal to test how cities can use binding service-level agreements and performance-based contracts to ensure city-scale delivery of equitable & sustainable sanitation services.
Posted on 23 Aug, 2013 01:11 PM

For more information on the proposal sought, please click here.
Applications invited for online Graduate Certificate in Public Policy (GCPP) programme, Takshashila Institution
A programme that aims to equip dynamic Indians with knowledge, skills and exposure to public policy.
Posted on 14 Aug, 2013 06:52 PM

For more information on the 12 week online programme, please click here

To register for the same, click here
Takshashila Institution
Invite for online blended learning programme 'Science and Policy of Climate Change', TERI, September 13 -16, 2013
A program that follows an interdisciplinary approach and is enriched by audio, video, and interactive web-based content.
Posted on 13 Aug, 2013 03:14 PM

For more information on the online course, please click here

To register for the course, please click here

The brochure may be downloaded from below
The Energy and Resources Institute
Countrywide ban on sand mining
News this week - National Green Tribunal bans sand mining, Ukai dam authorities save Surat from floods and the Central Government decides to release water data.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 11 Aug, 2013 05:41 PM

Countrywide ban on sand mining
Sand mining on the Pennar river bed
IAS officer suspended for targeting illegal sand mining
News roundup - IAS officer suspended in UP, groundwater contaminated by gold mines and the number of households with improved sanitation rises.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 04 Aug, 2013 05:01 PM

IAS officer in Uttar Pradesh suspended for action against sand mining
Sand mining near the Yamuna river
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