Reports and Documents

Public Accounts Committee (2015-16) present this Twenty Fifth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Disaster Preparedness in India' based on C&AG Report No. 3 of 2013 (Performance Audit), Union Government related to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Cities, states, regions, companies and investors are taking actions to address climate change. The scope of these actions is broad, covering hundreds of jurisdictions and encompassing a significant fraction of the global economy. Citizens, too, are mobilizing through signed petitions and climate marches.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Presence of Arsenic in Major Rivers, 10/12/2015. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is monitoring water quality at 1275 locations on 445 Rivers, including river Ganga.

The India Health Report on Nutrition 2015 offers a critical analysis of the current situation with nutrition at the national and state levels in India. It provides easy-to-understand, state-wise data dashboards for 28 states and Delhi that give a comprehensive view of nutrition and its determinants.

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human rights of our generation, posing a serious risk to the fundamental rights to life, health, food and an adequate standard of living of individuals and communities across the world.

The purpose of this Agreement is to further implement the objective of the Convention as set out in its Article 2 through enhanced action, cooperation and support, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, so as to: Hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial level

The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) has released a new report, Expanding Efforts on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in the Transport Sector, to assess the state of the art of adaptation actions taken in the transport sector, and the potential to expand these efforts.

Handbook on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Handbook) has been developed in support of the Checklist on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Checklist), a tool to assess whether and to what extent the existing legal framework of a country is meeting its full potential in supporting DRR.

The global climate is warming and there is growing evidence that climate variability is increasing in many places; extremes are becoming more frequent and intense in some parts of the world.

Restoration of Water Quality of river Ganga is high on the National Agenda. The Government is committed to put its best effort to bring back the sanctity of the river.