A report on the walkability survey undertaken to assess the pedestrian friendliness of the city of Pune in Maharashtra, India. The survey was conducted by Parisar on behalf of Clean Air Initiative (CAI) using a toolkit provided by CAI which was adapted from the Global Walkability Index toolkit developed for the World Bank.

This paper critically analyzes the decision making systems behind the proposed Pune metro rail system and its detailed project report, and exposes many weaknesses in both. The decision making system is seen to be ad?hoc, and not sufficiently transparent or participative. The detailed project report suffers from many serious methodological and analytical errors.

The occurrences of some exceptionally very heavy rainfall during the recent years and causing flash floods in many areas forced to study the long term changes in extreme rainfall over India.

This report on the recent national level round-table on metro rail systems in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai and Pune organised by Parisar presents the experiences by experts on metro rail systems in these cities and also their concerns & ways of moving forward.

This report by Parisar presents results of a survey of pedestrians using Foot Over-Bridges (FOBs) and Foot Under-Bridges (FUBs), as well as the findings of a usability analysis of these facilities in Pune.

The main motivation of this comprehensive study is to understand climatological and fluctuation features of the extreme rainfall events (EREs) considering
detailed account of spatial variability of rainfall occurrences. Experiences suggest that the EREs are embedded in the large-scale, long period intense rainfall activities during the summer monsoon period.

Parisar analyzed the budget allocation for the transport sector in the budget for 2010-11 as approved by the General Body of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to understand the vision and direction of the city as far as transport is concerned. In particular, wished to see whether the city

This document contains the presentation by Aprajita Singh, University of Pune on Green Microfinance, presented at National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.

Climate change assessment and decelerating food production trends in India: a paper presented by Dr. Krishna Kumar, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.

This document contains the presentation on the role of cloud-aerosol interactions in climate change by G. Pandithurai, IITM, Pune at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.