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Niti Aayog working on policy to end crop residue burning

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 26, 2019

Government think-tank Niti Aayog will soon come out with a policy roadmap to promote alternative use of crop residue, which farmers continue to burn in the fields despite a ban in some states to...

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India proposes more than $12 billion of pollution-reducing incentives

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 18, 2019

India has proposed incentives worth 885 billion rupees ($12.4 billion) to encourage power plants to install equipment to curb emissions and to develop infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs), a government statement said on Friday. The bulk of...

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India’s most polluted: 30% have no clean up plan

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 4, 2018

A good number of India’s most polluted cities are not too keen to clean up their act, according to a list maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Of the 102 cities singled out...

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