The first Car Free Day in Delhi on Oct 22, 2015 led to a 60 percent drop in the air pollution on the car-free stretch from Red Fort to India Gate in comparison to the levels observed on a normal day, a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said. Read more...

Capital subsidies for renewable energy, both off-grid and on-grid, have been abandoned in favour of some kind of generation based incentives or other financial instruments like soft loans in the case of off-grid solar in almost all parts of the world. The draft of JNNSM, Phase II continues this conservative approach to funding renewable energy projects, says CSE.