The implementation of decentralisation reform as embodied in the 73rd and 74th amendments of the Constitution has suffered from complete negligence. The two recent articles by Oommen and Sivaramakrishnan have highlighted the inexplicable attitudes of the finance commissions and the judiciary towards decentralisation.

Mumbai's Metro rail project has hit a roadblock. The regional planning authority, executing the project, is facing shortage of funds.
In July, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) approached the World Bank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation for a Rs 20,000 crore loan.

RASHME SEHGAL
NEW DELHI

With less than 11 weeks to go for the start of the crucial Cancun climate meet, Zimbabwean diplomat Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe, who is chairperson of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Co-operative Action (Awg-Lca), UNFCC, made a spirited bid to ease disconcertations of the G 77 nations by emphasising that Cancun would see a determined effort to rebuild the trust d

Lives of over 15,000 people of Uttarakhand are under threat in disaster-prone areas of the hill State that fall in seismic zone four and five.

The Government may be concerned with the predicament of this vulnerable segment of its people but its disaster management efforts have turned out to be a messy affair for want of adequate fund.

The interesting fact is that as per an old estimation, th

Mministers and other top officials made progress on establishing the details of how hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid will be raised and distributed.

TOM ZELLER JR.
NEW YORK

Blasting off mountain tops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions tonnes of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists

The annual report on climate change and carbon emission performance of the world's largest 500 companies released by Carbon Disclosure Project at Climate Week in New York reveals that these companies account for 11% of global emissions.

The 2008

The objective of this study is to investigate how output-based aid (OBA) could be used to increase sustainable access to sanitation services.

More than three decades after its first publication in 1979, The Global Competitiveness Report series continues to provide the world

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