Business and Human Rights under India’s new labour codes
Baseline rights of workers in India have traditionally been dealt with under numerous,often overlapping, labour laws and overseen by multiple regulators. The approach hasmostly been a compliance (tick the box) exercise with hardly any emphasis on businesses’...
Delhi Master Plan: Planning a city by excluding the people
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) recently released the Draft Delhi Master Plan, 2041 and has invited comments and objections from the general public. When read on its own, the Master Plan draft is, at most levels, a repetition of the objectives as stated in the...
Glimpse of MoEFCC’s Plans To Amend Forest Act – Based on Who Gets To Edit It
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change issued a ‘Call for Expression of Interest’ (EOI) on June 22, 2021, from consultancy organisations. The ministry would then shortlist some among them to prepare ‘draft comprehensive amendments’ to the Indian...
माइनिंग साइट एक नहीं और ठेकेदारों के लिए जरूरी कर दिए एक्स और एम फॉर्म भरना, उग्र हुए ठेकेदार, काम न करने की दी चेतावनी
Ministry of Coal conducts workshop on way ahead for Jharia and Raniganj Master Plan
The Ministry of Coal , Govt. of India, organized a day-long workshop on “way ahead for Jharia and Raniganj Master Plan” at Central Coalfields Limited, a Jharkhand-based subsidiary of Coal India Ltd. today. The workshop was aimed at expediting rehabilitation of...
Here’s why Centre’s new SOP may damage Environment Impact Assessment regime
The latest guidelines from the Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to prevent violations of green norms actually seem yet another attempt to weaken the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) regime. The National Green Tribunal (NGT)...
How Did Union, State Govts Fare on SC’s Order Providing Safety Net for Migrant Labour?
In the wake of the sudden announcement of nationwide lockdown in March 2020, millions of people decided to go back to their villages, towns and cities. Television channels filled with images of men, women and children, walking barefoot, some lugging suitcases with...
Greater Noida becomes the first smart city to give access to all urban services to residents via GNIDA GIS app
With digitisation of government services high on agenda, Greater Noida has become the first smart city in the national capital region to introduce new tech innovations that will give residents access to the geographical information system (GIS) of the entire region...
बायो मेडिकल वेस्ट के निराकरण के लिए पूंजीपथरा में लगेगा प्लांट, 11 अगस्त को होगी जनसुनवाई…बढ़ जाएगा प्रदूषण का स्तर, ग्रामीण विरोध में
अस्पतालों से निकलने वाले बायो मेडिकल वेस्ट के निराकरण के लिए जिस कंपनी को ठेका दिया गया था, उसकी जनसुनवाई 11 अगस्त को होनी है। हैरत की बात यह है कि उद्योगों ने जिस इलाके को उजाड़ दिया है, वहीं अब एक और कंपनी बायो मेडिकल वेस्ट निराकरण के लिए सैकड़ों पेड़ काटेगी। इससे...
Cabinet approves pact with Russia on cooperation for coking coal
The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved a pact between India and Russia regarding cooperation on coking coal, a key steel making raw material, for which domestic players remain dependent on imports from a select group of countries. Around 85 per cent of India's coking...