February 2012

Housing
Working in, staying out
GOI Monitor Desk

High cost of urban living is forcing people to work in cities and live in peripheries

Migrant labourer

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Nandlal Tiwari migrated 10 years ago to Bhiwandi and his entire family back home depends on his salary. Photo by: Atul Loke/Panos

Housing

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Costly housing is making cities unaffordable to migrants

Farming and climate change
Cashing in on the climate change debate
Soumya dutta

The climate change action plans are focused on money making than protection of environment

Ladakhi student

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RTE Act envisages better infrastructure in schools. Photo by: Ravleen Kaur

Forest cover
The green cover-up
Manu Moudgil

A look at how misleading policies are fueling the delusion that India’s green cover is expanding

Forest cover

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Our native mixed forests are depleting due to misleading policies. Photo by: Peasant Autonomy

Ladakhi student
Another brick in the wall?
Arvind Rana

The Pink Floyd's anthem on education will be a thing of past if the RTE Act is implemented in its true spirit

Water storage
Digging deep, fetching a nought
Himanshu Thakkar
Parineeta Dandekar

Neither the farmers nor the environment, the draft water policy seems to help only the vested interests

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