Pooja Upadhyay

Integrating green & grey essential to mitigate urban floods

Flood events are a part of nature, but urbanisation, which goes hand-in-hand with land-use changes, makes cities impassable for excess…

2 years ago

Delhi needs to own responsibility for its waste

Ashish wakes up to the sound of a van – it is around 6 in the morning and time for…

3 years ago

Delhi: Reflection of India

Known to be named after Raja Dhilu, a king who reigned in the region in the 1st century BCE, the…

3 years ago

Untapped potential lies in forum of mayors

Decentralisation gives power to the people by establishing urban local bodies consisting of elected representatives, but leaves much at the…

3 years ago

Shifting focus of cities to sustainable infrastructure

Infrastructure is a set of structural elements that support day-to-day functioning and influence human society’s direction. It refers to equipment…

3 years ago

JJM gives power to the people

Water is the foremost among necessities of life and drinking water supply is a basic and critical service delivery. Growing…

3 years ago

Devolution of ‘funds, functions & functionaries’ key to efficient local governance

A city is developed when its local government is strengthened and plans are introduced and implemented at the local level.…

3 years ago

Circular economy or no future of cities

India cities generate over 1,00,000 MT of waste per day (CPHEEO). Resources being limited, with rapid population growth, urbanization, and…

3 years ago

Reduction in CO2 emissions requires people engagement

Owing to ever-growing anthropogenic activity, the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere has been quickly increasing over the…

3 years ago

Fire disasters are catastrophic, but avoidable

The massive disturbances inflicted upon nature by humans have resulted in the event called Climate Change. There is general agreement…

3 years ago