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Failed Power Projects Shackle India’s Energy Growth
About 75 projects in the energy sector worth about Rs 70,000 crore, which could have generated 30,809 mega watts (MW) of energy—enough to supply 11% of India’s annual power-generation capacity—were...
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Delhi’s Pollution One-And-Half Times Worse Than Beijing
Delhi’s air pollution has been one-and-a-half times worse than in Beijing over the past week, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of PM 2.5 (Particulate Matter) concentration data. The analysis is...
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Your Energy Consumption Up 46% Since 2000, Still Third Of Global Average
India’s per capita energy consumption grew 46% over the last 14 years, but it is still a third of the global average, according to the International Energy Agency’s India Energy Outlook Report 2015....
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Malnutrition Reducing But Undernourished Population High
Between 2006 and 2014 in India, stunting rates for children under five declined from 48% to 39%, there was a 35% reduction in the number of underweight children, but India is still home to more than...
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How Disruptions Hurt Parliament’s Upper House
Image: Rajya Sabha TV While the winter session of Parliament started with controversial debates on intolerance, the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament) had to be adjourned for the fourth...
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How Indonesian Fires Are Affecting Global Climate
Illegal agricultural fire in Tesso Nilo National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The haze from Indonesia’s forest and land fires remains an acute environmental and public heath crisis. Raging fires in...
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Falling Global Gas Prices Bonanza For India
Falling global gas prices have brought achche din (good days) for India’s beleaguered power-from-gas sector, ridden with unused power plants and struggling banks that have loaned billions to these...
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Juvenile Crimes Rise 47%. But Adult Law May Not Help
Plainclothes policemen escort the juvenile convict (head covered with towel) after he was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention on August 31, 2013 for the Nirbhaya gang rape. As the Delhi...
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Indians In US Love Jobs, Money But Dream Of Return
Most Indians in the US believe they are over-qualified for their jobs but–in contrast with other nationalities–are happy with their salaries and find their jobs less stressful. Yet, while Indians...
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Maharashtra, UP Show India What To Expect From GST
A truck driver next to his parked truck while waiting to get his loads cleared to cross a checkpoint at the Commercial Taxes Department check post at Walayar in Palakkad district in southern Indian...
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Robert Vadra Can (Still) Skip Airport Security
Robert Vadra, son in law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, continues to be officially exempt from security checks at airports, according to a right-to-information (RTI) response received from the...
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Delhi’s Transport Sector 3 Times More Polluting Than Mumbai’s
Delhi’s transport sector produces six times as much greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) as that of Kolkata’s, five times as much as Ahmedabad’s and three times as much as Greater Mumbai and Chennai,...
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Delhi’s Declining Bus Use Points To Mass Transit Failures
Scrambling to find a solution to the world’s worst urban air, Delhi’s government has decided to add 6,000 buses to support the odd-even vehicle formula. It will not be an easy task to convince...
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0.21% Of Infrastructure Projects In Health Sector, Reflecting Low Priority
Patients sleep in the corridor of a government-run hospital in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. The lack of health facilities in India’s villages reflects the low investment. Of the 4,000-odd...
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How India Can Drop (At Least) 120 Future Power Plants
A worker cleans the glasses of a building in the commercial hub of New Delhi. If India grabs the opportunity of transforming building-energy use, it could illuminate a new path. We have to ensure,...
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To Train Million Indians A Week, Skill India Needs Wider Net
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thrown his weight behind the comprehensive National Policy for Skills Development and Entrepreneurship, launched in the summer along with several new schemes as part...
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9 Die Every Day On Mumbai Local Train Tracks
The viral video of a 21-year-old youth, Bhavtesh Nakate, who fell to death from a Mumbai local train last month generated a lot of outrage. Nakate’s death sparked questions about the safety of...
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2015: BJP Lost, Congress Stagnant, Regional Parties Gained
The year 2015 has been a blessing for political parties other than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the same way 2013 and 2014 were exciting for the BJP. The Indian National Congress could not...
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Delhi Air Quality Plunges, IndiaSpend Rejigs Sensor Readings
A traffic policeman wears a mask to protect himself from dust and air pollution as he signals to drivers in New Delhi, India, December 23 was officially the capital city’s ‘most polluted day of the...
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2015: Your Guide To Hindus, Muslims And Intolerance
What was the intolerance debate that roiled India this year about? * Was it about the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders–and Hindu villagers— declaring that a 50-year-old Muslim lynched...
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