2023: India’s Weather In 8 Charts
Dec 28, 2023 · In eight charts, we analyse the year’s weather. Central India recorded over thrice the usual rainfall in March, April. India experienced extreme weather events on 84 of the 120 days in the first four months of 2023, predominantly thunderstorms and hailstorms, according to a compilation of such events by the Centre for Science and Environment. March and April reported elevated levels of ...
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 ...
5 11. Incentives 11.1 Micro-Siting Norms For repowering/refurbishment projects: a) For WEGs within own wind farm-the Project Developer will have the liberty for adopting micro siting norms based on the optimized
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 ...
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Why UP’s Dengue Cases Have Been Rising - indiaspend.com
Nov 13, 2024 · In a healthy individual, the normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 400,000 per microlitre of blood. However, when platelet levels fall below 20,000, the risk of developing dengue shock syndrome becomes imminent, N.B. Singh, chief medical superintendent at Balrampur Hospital explained.“Platelets are necessary for blood clotting.
Budget Explainer: India's Public School Funding Strategy
Jan 26, 2021 · Jaipur: India needs to spend 6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education, every national education policy (NEP) since 1968 has said.In 2019-20, 52 years since that recommendation, India spent only 3.1% of its GDP on education, the 2019-20 …
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 …
Why There Have Been So Few Women In India's Administrative …
Jan 5, 2022 · "Gender equality is at the core of an inclusive and accountable public administration", noted the 2021 report of the United Nations Development Program, 'Gender Equality In Public Administration'. Ensuring equal representation of women in bureaucracy and public administration improves the functioning of the government, makes it more responsive and accountable to diverse public interests ...
No Country For Organic: Why Punjab Finds It Hard To Quit
Sep 3, 2022 · This is the second in our series on natural farming, and explores why it is hard for farmers in Punjab, the food bowl of India, to move to chemical-free farming, now being pushed by the Union government and through policy. "The whole [agricultural] ecosystem in Punjab is built around chemical farming, compared to other parts of India, because we were the frontrunner state during the green ...