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 ...
Why Ragpickers, Unrecognised And Unpaid, Are Critical For Waste ...
May 12, 2017 · Why rag-picking is a free but critical civic service. Ragpickers actually complement the work of civic bodies, Shashi Bhushan Pandit, who runs the All India Kabadi Mazdoor Mahasangh, pointed out in this March 2016 interview. “According to the law under which a municipality is set up, it places dustbins according to the size of the population.
Textile Waste A Growing Environmental Concern
Nov 23, 2024 · Further, the global fashion industry is also the second-biggest consumer of water, we had reported. It takes 3,781 litres of water--equivalent to the amount of water a person drinks over a period of three years--to make a pair of jeans, starting from the production of cotton to the retail delivery of the final product.. Textile waste is divided into three categories: pre-consumer waste, which ...
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: What Is Natural Farming? - IndiaSpend
Jul 27, 2022 · Due to the impact of the Green Revolution, "heightened further" by the pandemic, "there is an urgent need to scale up alternative approaches" of farming, wrote economist Mihir Shah, in a January 2022 report in the journal Ecology, Economy and Society. In December 2021, during a conclave on natural farming, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the need for working on alternative methods of ...
India Unclear How Many Villages It Has, And Why That Matters
Aug 3, 2017 · The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGA)--India's labour law that guarantees 100 days of wage employment to rural households--considers villages and their hamlets as distinct entities, and hence its tally of administrative units goes up to more than a million, according to the author's discussions with various officials.
One Stop, Many Challenges: Sakhi Centres Struggle To
May 5, 2023 · The Sakhi One Stop Centre scheme of the WCD ministry under the Nirbhaya Fund, aims to support and assist women facing violence in public and private spaces, including spousal violence. However, despite having the potential to help hundreds of thousands of women, and being operational for over seven years, several issues prevent the centres and the larger scheme from effectively curbing ...
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 ...
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 …
6 Challenges For The New Uttar Pradesh Government - IndiaSpend
Mar 17, 2017 · 2. Low learning levels, high absenteeism in the state with 21% of India’s child population. UP has achieved high enrolment of children in primary school, with 83.1% of primary school-aged children enrolled in school in 2015-16, according to the data from the government’s Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE).. Major issues for the new government now include low ...