Research Papers

Urban sanitation in India and the need to look at Brazil

Although agriculture is the largest source of livelihood for people in India, its share in the gross domestic product (GDP) has been declining over time with

India continues to have the highest number of people defecating out in the open according to recent figures by the World Health Organisation

About 3 million children from developing countries below the age of 5 die every year due to diarrhoeal diseases caused by polluted water, poor san

Menstrual hygiene management continues to be a challenge for rural women in India and many women are forced to resort to unhygienic ways of managing menstruation thus affecting their health and well-being. The paper titled 'Menstrual management and low cost sanitary napkins' published in the Economic and

One of the tasks that the current government had promised to work on is the fast tracking of the process of appraisal of projects seeking environmental approvals from the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The article titled 'Environmental regulation in India: Moving 'forward' in the old direction' published in th

Construction industry is a booming industry, with the real estate sector contributing heavily towards the country’s GDP.

The goal of securing universal access to safe drinking water continues to be elusive for India inspite of the impressive strides made in the current years.

The present government has set a target of 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity for the country by 2022.

Groundwater is the major source of drinking water in both urban and rural India, and an important source of water for agricultural and industrial sectors.