Reports and Documents

Summary of the informal interactive hearing with representatives of nongovernmental organizations, civil society organizations, academia and the private sector, to provide an input to preparatory process of the 2011 High-level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases.

The central government has prepared a draft National Food Security Bill (NFSB). This draft, aside from ignoring all the demands of the right to food campaign, junks many essential provisions of the “NAC draft”, and even dilutes existing entitlements.

There is growing awareness and concern about the large and escalating burden of chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) not just from the public health perspective but also from the economic one.

In June 2009 Government of Karnataka (GoK) constituted a Coordination Committee to oversee and coordinate the state’s response to climate change. It assigned the mandate to prepare the State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) to Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute (EMPRI).

This national action plan was developed through a series of multi-stakeholder consultative workshops with representations from national, regional and international biodiversity organizations.

CSE does noise level survey, finds many areas in Delhi crossing the norms. Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Pollution Monitoring Lab tracks noise levels in Delhi and finds them to be very high in some places. Constant exposure to noise can have serious health implications, ranging from deafness to heart conditions to sleep disorders.

India is home to world’s largest wild tigers population and has got unique assemblage of globally important endangered species like Asiatic lion, Asian Elephant, Onehorned Rhinoceros, Gangetic River Dolphin, Snow Leopard, Kashmir Stag, Dugong, Gharial, Great Indian Bustard, Lion Tailed Macaque etc.

There had been several newspaper clippings indicating that arsenic contamination in drinking water sources in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh is creating hardship to the local people and several people are suffering from arsenecosis disease.

Strengthening natural resource management components under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA recommendations by National Advisory Council.