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Bringing street vendors into mainstream

Street vendors are visible in every nook and corner of urban spaces and account for a substantial urban employment share.…

4 years ago

Need of the hour is all-inclusive urban planning

Over the years, street vending has always been the easiest means of survival for poor migrants. It is one of…

4 years ago

Street vendors add colour to cities

Achievement of India’s $ 5 trillion economy objective has the potential to catapult the nation to the top league while…

4 years ago

Cities’ role primary in increasing uptake of RE

Cities will be a key player in accelerating renewable energy uptake and driving the energy transition movement. City leaders are…

4 years ago

Phase Out Coal Fast

Cities are power guzzlers. The electricity that runs our cities comes majorly from coal. Can governments stop burning coal for…

4 years ago

Clean energy for a safer world

KARNATAKA, GUJARAT, TAMIL NADU, Rajasthan and Telangana have emerged as the front runners in the race to build India’s renewable…

4 years ago

Progress towards a world with universal access to clean energy

The adoption of Goal 7 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 was a statement made by…

4 years ago

All cogs of the wheel need to work together

The recent changing priorities of cities because of the Pandemic, and before that, because of looming dangers of climate change…

4 years ago

Cities need to balance development, resource utilisation, sustainability targets responsibly

Cities are at the core of the government’s push for infrastructure development, Foreign Direct Investment for supporting Make in India,…

4 years ago

Building partnerships to build better cities

‘Trudeau dials India for vaccine; will do best to help, says Modi’ was a recent print media headline. In the…

4 years ago