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  • India's National Action Plan on Climate Change   CED Backup Copy

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released India's first National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) outlining existing and future policies and programs addressing climate mitigation and adaptation, on June 30, 2008. The plan identifies eight national missions namely

  • National Solar Mission
  • National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
  • National Mission on Sustainable Habitat
  • National Water Mission
  • National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
  • National Mission for a Green India
  • National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
  • National Mission on strategic Knowledge for Climate Change

    It also outlines the institutional arrangements for implementing the Climate Change agenda.

  • In The Woods Over Environment Policy by Bittu Sahgal   CED Backup Copy

    IT WASN'T JUST Indians. The whole world waited with bated breath for India's official position on climate change, made public on June 30, 2008. What emerged was a tepid document that offered too little, too late. And because the document never went through

    Collapse of affordable housing by A. Srivathsan   CED Backup Copy

    The din of real estate boom in India drowns the stark realities of housing crisis that looms large. The Eleventh Planning Commission admits that the situation will not improve much in the next five years and the shortage will grow to 26.53 million. It may be hard to believe that with such levels of investment in real estate, housing shortage exists. A drastic intervention that combines incentives, subsidies and regulation is required to address the housing crisis

    Indo US Nuclear Deal: Why this hurry and at what cost? by Dr Sandeep Pandey   CED Backup Copy

    Amidst protests against price rises of essential items throughout the country, the PM Manmohan Singh has again started harping on the issue of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The Deal has been pushed forward in India in an anti-democratic manner without approval of the Parliament - in fact in the teeth of opposition by a large majority of parliamentarians. The Deal has the potential of disturbing regional stability and further distorting India \'s relationships with important neighbours like China , Pakistan and Iran.

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