Water quality monitoring is one of the important function of State Pollution Control Board. It helps in evaluating the nature & extent of water contamination, assess the water quality trends, evaluate the success of pollution control measures taken & prioritization of efforts to be initiated.

While rural-rural migration continues to be the largest in terms of magnitude, this paper published by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research documents an increase in two-way commuting across rural and urban areas.

Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India’s public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS in terms of its outreach and offtake.

Text of the draft Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Maharashtra) Rules, 2014 released by the Revenue and Forest Department, Maharashtra Government on 19 March 2014.

Read text of Maharashtra Village Forest Rules 2014 released by the state government on March 5 2014 to to institutionalize an effective management regime for conservation and long-term sustainability of forests.They apply to part of such reserved forests (RF) or protected forests (PF) in the village as assigned under the Indian Forest Act (IFA) 1927.

This new study by IIT, Bombay examines the existing road‘s safety performance and suggest various suitable traffic control and management measures to enhance safety and mobility of proposed 15.5 km BRTS corridor in Pune.

Letter from Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association regarding banning of PET bottles for medicines, 20/12/2013. The letter says that the "DTAB recommendations are unjust as they seem to be based on neither robust scientific facts nor on established global practices".