Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective technologies and find shelter in policies that provide reservation in pollution-free sectors?

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India"s environment

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small scale industry

An attempt to revive vanishing medicinal plants through cultivation

Least developed countries LDCs are caught in a vicious cycle of debt and aid. Stiff and biased trade barriers by industrialised countries helps complete the exploitative bind