Reports and Documents

This paper examines the role the auto-rickshaw sector can play in promoting sustainable urban transport in India. It develops a policy vision for this sector and presents recommendations on reforms to address sustainability challenges.

Greenpeace released the latest version of the Greenpeace Cool IT Leaderboard at the business conclave "Decarbonising Economy: Renewable energy powering India's growth” organised by Greenpeace India and CyberMedia.

This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape and explores three roles that government can play in developing more financially inclusive ecosystems. It also discusses various ways in which the development community can support government actors to focus their efforts on this new inclusive ecosystem.

This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In addition, it reviews three key agriculture-food programs for their nutrition sensitivity at the policy level, using a convergence framework.

The Government of India constituted a 15 member Expert Group (EG) to interact with the officials of state government of Tamil Nadu and spokespersons of the people in the neighborhood of KKNPP, nominated by the state government, to explain the factual position on various aspects of the Project and to allay the fears and dispel the apprehensions o

EG observes that KKNPP is designed and engineered to the state of art of nuclear reactors in line with the current international safety requirements and principles. KK site related aspects such as seismic, tsunami and tropical storms are taken into consideration at design stage.

The Ministry of Water Resources has come up with this draft of the National Water Policy 2012. It proposes setting up of water regulatory authority and says that there should be a provision for adequate water pricing to incentivize recycle and reuse.

The objective of this paper is to analyse and share a critique of forest sector governance in Nepal, particularly with forest law enforcement. This paper will also explore types of illegal practices and examine the degree to which forest law enforcement is contributing to or hindering effective forest governance in Nepal.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a roadmap that outlines its goals and objectives for the enhanced control, prevention, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases.

In exercise of the powers conferred under Sections 61 (h), 62 (1) (a), and 86 (1) (e) of the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), guidelines of the National Electricity Policy, 2005, Tariff Policy, 2006 and all other powers enabling it on this behalf, the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as “GERC” or “the Commiss