Reports and Documents

This paper describes and analyzes a series of complementary policy initiatives in India to adapt and commercialize existing global biotechnologies to meet local needs in healthcare, agriculture, industry and the environment in a more affordable manner.

International Energy Agency in partnership with EMBARQ has launched this comprehensive global database of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems from over 130 cities and includes Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune & Jaipur from India.

This review of a decade of Bt cotton in MP by Beej Swaraj Abhiyan & Hamara Beej Abhiyan finds that that there have been no gains in the state as claimed by Bt cotton proponents & calls for strict regulations to regulate Bt cotton seed industry.

The National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy, 2007 has been formulated with an objective to address concerns on involuntary displacement through a quantification of the costs and benefits that will accrue to society at large, and of the desirability and justifiability of each project, after assessment of the adverse economic, environmenta

National Green Tribunal (NGT) has suspended the environment clearance granted to the proposed POSCO project in Orissa on grounds of faulty Environment Impact Assessment.
Read text of this NGT verdict appreciated by the anti-POSCO activists.

As per the Electricity Act, 2003, CEA is to prepare the National Electricity Plan (NEP) once in five years. The Act stipulates that CEA, while preparing the NEP, shall publish the draft of the same and invite suggestions and objections thereon from licensees, generating companies and the public.

Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is bounded by the forests of Dhalbhum and Saraikela Forest Division of Jharkhand and Kansabati Forest Division of West Bengal, Jamshedpur township and Chandil sub divisional town are merely 0 -5 kilometers from the boundary of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary.

The “State of the Planet” declaration was issued by scientists at a major gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the major UN Summit Rio+20 in June.

This draft National Chemical Policy, 2012 released by Department of Chemicals to facilitate growth and development of chemical industry accords high importance to R & D, technology up-gradation, pollution & environmental aspects, effluent disposal and green chemicals.