Climate Change

 Can business be responsible

Call it paranoia or plain silliness. But it is amazing. The Centre for Science and Environment cse has been studying gas pricing in the country to assess how environmentally acceptable fuels can be

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Pollution, Health Effects, CNG, LPG, Child Health, Endosulfan, Pesticide Residues, Public Sector, Private Sector, Government Of India (GOI), Sustainable Development

 Cosmetic concern

At a time when USA is banning MTBE , Indian public sector companies, with the blessings of the petroleum ministry babus, are promoting its use

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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20010715
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Tags:
Environment, Sugar Industry, Ethanol, Diesel, Petrol, MTBE, Public Sector, Brazil, India, 24 Parganas (S), 24 Parganas (N), Health Effects
Industry

 The great public sector charade

The Indian Oil Corporation, a public sector company, was reluctant to provide clean diesel to Delhi when asked by the Supreme Court. But after a private sector industrial group, Reliance, offered to supply it, the company rushed to do the same. The pu

Publication Date: 
29/09/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Diesel, Automobiles, Industry, Petrochemical Industry, Public Sector, Legislation, Politics, Delhi, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
Agriculture

 Too many graduates

India's agricultural universities are producing far too many forestry graduates for the jobs available. Protests by the graduates prompted the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) to write

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Agriculture, Services, Public Sector, Education
India

 Bridging the gaps in R & D policy

The 80th session of the Indian Science Congress ended in the first week of January in Goa without adding to anyone's knowledge or wisdom. The importance of the theme of the conference -- Science and

Publication Date: 
14/02/1993
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Industry, Public Sector, Research, India
Economy

 Liberalisation viewed through worker's eyes

THIS IS a worthy compilation of stories of resistance by workers to the assault on them, legitimised now by the New Economic Policy. More specifically, it tells the story of the courageous fight

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Achin Vanaik
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Economy, Workers, Public Sector

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