Green Vs Green: The Great Indian Bustard’s Continued Struggle …
Oct 29, 2024 · Conflicting priorities. Historically, widespread hunting for sport and food precipitated the GIB’s decline, accelerated by vehicular access to remote areas, as IndiaSpend reported in May 2023. But today, the continued decline in the GIB population has been triggered by loss and degradation of grasslands which are their habitat.
Explained: The Fine-Print In Modi Govt’s Rooftop Solar
Mar 16, 2024 · IndiaSpend wrote to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for comments on the concerns around rooftop solar. We will update this story when we receive a response. Sunshine sector. India ranks fifth in the world in solar power installed capacity. It has pledged to have 50% of its cumulative electricity installed capacity from non-fossil fuels by …
3 Workers Die Every Day In Indian Factories, Govt Data Show
Jan 21, 2023 · In late November 2022, IndiaSpend met injured workers and relatives of workers who have died in accidents in factories and construction sites in Delhi and Ahmedabad, to understand the barriers to recovery and redress. Safety at factories is often lax, support after an accident is inadequate, and financial and job insecurity and government apathy make pursuing a case against owners and/or ...
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Budget Explainer: India's Public School Funding Strategy
Jan 26, 2021 · Jaipur: India needs to spend 6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education, every national education policy (NEP) since 1968 has said.In 2019-20, 52 years since that recommendation, India spent only 3.1% of its GDP on education, the 2019-20 …
What India Expects From The Developed World’s Climate Plans
Nov 18, 2024 · The global climate conference, called the 29th Conference of Parties or COP29 is underway in Azerbaijan, and countries have already engaged in argument on agenda items -- most significantly, a new finance goal that determines how much developing countries like India should receive to combat and adapt to climate change. The money is important for these countries to implement their existing ...
5 11. Incentives 11.1 Micro-Siting Norms For repowering/refurbishment projects: a) For WEGs within own wind farm-the Project Developer will have the liberty for adopting micro siting norms based on the optimized
Explained: The Critical Mineral Foundation Missing In India’s …
Sep 21, 2024 · In 2023, the Indian government, for the first time, identified 30 critical minerals and is working towards securing them. “Though India has not been a dominant player in the global supply chain for various critical minerals like lithium, cobalt etc., India has been working to strengthen its position in the mining and processing of critical minerals,” the Union Ministry of Mines had said ...
Explained: Why A New Climate Finance Goal Already Has …
Oct 18, 2024 · As per the Paris Agreement, countries are supposed to agree on the next finance goal that will come into effect 2025 onwards, taking the $100 billion as the floor and raising it suitably as per developing countries’ needs.This new corpus will be called the New Collective Quantified Goal on Finance or NCQG.India was one of the few countries in the world to put a number to this finance goal ...
In 12 Years, 11 States Changed Land Ceiling Laws In Favour
Feb 10, 2021 · In Karnataka, the amendments began in 2015 when the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government increased the maximum income of a buyer of agricultural land from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 25 lakh. Then, in November 2020, the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led Bharatiya Janata Party government removed the limit altogether. State revenue minister R. Ashoka, while announcing the changes, said that the government was "amending ...