Situation of Informal Sector: Waste Workers
The word unorganized was first used by Keith Hart and International Labour Organization (ILO) discussed it first time in 1972 in its Kenya convention where comprehensive discussion on unorganized sector which was held. Long before this, unorganized workers emerged in...
Fact Finding Report on Muck Dumping: Field Visit Bilaspur
The National Highways Authority of India assigned Kiratpur Ner Chowk Expressway Ltd (KNCEL) promoted by the IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd (ITNL) on 16th March 2012 to undertake four laning of Kiratpur to Ner-Chowk section of NH21 from km.73200 to km 186500 on...
AIBOC coalition People’s Parliament on Unity and Development
To bring together Trade Unions, Farmers, Traders, Students, Youths, Women and Bankers at Grassroot level to discuss what kind of holistic development is needed. It is a dichotomy that Banks are saying there is no credit off take and people are saying they are not...
Cities For People Coalition
Cities for people is a coalition formed on the basis of dialogues which started last year among various organizations on coming together to think, share and build an understanding of how one can contribute collectively to make our human settlements more inclusive,...
Zero Carbon Cities: Are they Possible?
"The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge. If we can deal with this in the right way and have this informal mechanism then I think we can find a way of meeting what I...
Climate Change and Reproductive Heath
The impacts of global warming and climate change are worldwide. The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 1,50,000 lives annually. And the direct...
Climate Change and Solid Waste Management
Currently climate change is big burning issue in all over the world. It is one of the most important global environmental challenges in front of the world. Each sector like food production, water, health, energy is affected by climate change. Rapidly growth of...
AIR POLLUTION-Reality or Imagination
Air pollution occurs when gases, dust particles, fumes (or smoke) or odor are introduced into the atmosphere in a way that makes it harmful to humans, animals and plant. This is because the air becomes dirty (contaminated or unclean). During our work in the field, we...
Climate Change: Implication for Agriculture
Introduction Climate change has been a natural phenomenon in the geological history as corroborated by paleontological, limnological and stratigraphical evidence, once in every few million years, (the impacts of climate change too were spread over few million years)...
Beyond Coal in India
In late August, millions of poor Indians rejoiced on a Supreme Court judgement on the allocation of coal blocks. It was further hoping that the subsequent order which categorically held all, except four, to be illegal. It was a reprieve from a forced displacement,...
- Along The Burnt Coal Corridor…
- Musings from Near and Far
- A day to remember – Coal Satyagraha – The article appeared in Times of India
- Nature’s Trail by John Seed – This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949)
- Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
- Airbender – Air Quality Monitoring Map