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SAVE THE SPARROW IN THE CITIES
Urbanization is on the roll the world over. More than half of the world’s population has come to stay in urban areas, which proportion is increasing globally. According to the Ministry of Urban Development, India is in the midst of the transition from a predominantly rural to a quasi-urban society. Urbanization in India has become an important and irreversible process, and an important determinant of national economic growth and poverty reduction.
Local bodies need to be part of climate agenda
As the world grapples with climate crisis, the cities have gained increasing recognition as battleground in the fight against climate change. Climate finance for cities and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) are becoming more important than ever. A combination of national and international financial resources, drawn from public and private climate finance sources could be key enable for Urban Local Bodies ambition for climate action. It is therefore important for Indian ULBs to define its climate finance resources as crucial effort to meet goals on climate change.
Breathing to death
Air pollution causes thirty percent premature deaths in India. The situation is getting worse by the day. While people are choking to death, in place of an urgent solution we get is blame game
The idea and evolution of Bazaars
Bazaars have always been a centre of social, economic and cultural exchange. Over a period of time, the concept of Bazaars has changed in its spatial arrangement and offerings
Indian Railways: A Journey towards Swachh Bharat
The railways has taken many initiatives to augment the pace and scope of clean India…
A crowded city that makes it cooler than its climate: Bengaluru
Bengaluru sits at 949 meters above sea level. The city was once known as ‘Garden…
Strength and Impulse: Redefining Cities
Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote famously describing the cities My window shows the traveling clouds,…
When the cities sink, what’s the water that stinks?
Water that inundates our cities, when they flood due to extreme perceptional events or otherwise,…
Get Rid of Landfills
As a citizen of this country and this world, I increasingly get concerned about many…