This document presents the description of visit to Sirsa District of Haryana, where solar energy project commissioned on April 15th 2011 under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (Off-grid Solar Photo voltaic applications),

The Centre for Science and Environment organized a workshop on 'Clean and Sustainable Mobility for all: Agenda for Reforms' on September 28-29, 2011 at IHC, New Delhi. This was a dialogue among the key target groups to help raise policy and public awareness regarding mobility crisis in our cities and the reforms under way to address the crisis.

This new study by Centre for Science and Environment finds unprecedented scale of clearances being given by the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to industrial projects from 2007 till August 2011.

'The industry has no experience of disposing pesticides and the Ministry of Environment and Forest have not provided any definite procedure for the purpose'- This was the reply of the Supreme Court appointed joint committee on endosulfan.

The Centre for Science and Environment is organizing "Toxic Air and Our Health: Dialogue with Doctors" in association with the Indian Medical Association and the Indian Council of Medical Research. This is a dialogue with the doctors and air quality regulators on Clean Air and Public health.

All of us who travel on urban roads regularly and those who live close to roads, are at a serious health risk from vehicular air pollution. And according to estimates, about 55 per cent of Delhi’s population lives within 500 metre from such roads – and is therefore, prone to a variety of physical disorders.

Centre for Science and Environment joined hands with Indian Council for Medical Research and Indian Medical Association to organize a dialogue with the noted doctors – (respiratory physicians, cardiologists, pediatricians, oncologists), the air quality regulators, and health experts to track the newer concerns over health risks of polluted air.

A coal washery project called the Rajan Coal Washery with a capacity of 0.96 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) is proposed to come up at Kharsiya, Raigarh (Chhattisgarh). Raghubeer Pradhan of Ekta Parishad, approached the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) for a technical evaluation of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.

Centre for Science and Environment joined hands with Indian Council for Medical Research and Indian Medical Association to organize a dialogue with the noted doctors – (respiratory physicians, cardiologists, pediatricians, oncologists), the air quality regulators, and health experts to track the newer concerns over health risks of polluted air.

The dialogue with the doctors and air quality regulators on toxic air and public health organised by CSE in association with IMA and ICMR exposed mounting evidences on health effect of air pollution in India and abroad that must drive policy action.