2023: India’s Weather In 8 Charts
Dec 28, 2023 · In eight charts, we analyse the year’s weather. Central India recorded over thrice the usual rainfall in March, April. India experienced extreme weather events on 84 of the 120 days in the first four months of 2023, predominantly thunderstorms and hailstorms, according to a compilation of such events by the Centre for Science and Environment. March and April reported elevated levels of ...
Indian Prisons Saw A Surge In Undertrial Prisoners Over A Decade
Jan 2, 2024 · Mumbai: Over the past decade, Indian prisons have increasingly had more undertrial prisoners, with their share increasing from 66% of prisoners in 2012 to 76% in 2022, as revealed in the latest Prison Statistics India report released by the National Crime Records Bureau. While this figure rose each year, the greatest rise was seen in the pandemic year of 2020, when undertrial prisoner share ...
‘Unplanned Urbanisation Has Affected Bengaluru’s Vegetation …
Mar 25, 2024 · Bengaluru was dependent on a network of lakes and channels to handle water surpluses and store water. But in half a century since 1973, the city has lost 88% vegetation cover and 79% of water bodies, says T.V. Ramachandra, environmental scientist and coordinator, Energy and Wetlands Research Group, at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
Budget Explainer: India's Public School Funding Strategy
Jan 26, 2021 · Jaipur: India needs to spend 6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education, every national education policy (NEP) since 1968 has said.In 2019-20, 52 years since that recommendation, India spent only 3.1% of its GDP on education, the 2019-20 …
No Country For Organic: Why Punjab Finds It Hard To Quit
Sep 3, 2022 · This is the second in our series on natural farming, and explores why it is hard for farmers in Punjab, the food bowl of India, to move to chemical-free farming, now being pushed by the Union government and through policy. "The whole [agricultural] ecosystem in Punjab is built around chemical farming, compared to other parts of India, because we were the frontrunner state during the green ...
3 Workers Die Every Day In Indian Factories, Govt Data Show
Jan 21, 2023 · In late November 2022, IndiaSpend met injured workers and relatives of workers who have died in accidents in factories and construction sites in Delhi and Ahmedabad, to understand the barriers to recovery and redress. Safety at factories is often lax, support after an accident is inadequate, and financial and job insecurity and government apathy make pursuing a case against owners and/or ...
Explained: The Fine-Print In Modi Govt’s Rooftop Solar
Mar 16, 2024 · IndiaSpend wrote to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for comments on the concerns around rooftop solar. We will update this story when we receive a response. Sunshine sector. India ranks fifth in the world in solar power installed capacity. It has pledged to have 50% of its cumulative electricity installed capacity from non-fossil fuels by …
India’s Teacher Training Landscape Needs Urgent Reform
Sep 24, 2024 · The framework document for teacher training, the final version of which was released in 2009, was called “National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education: Towards Preparing Professional and Humane Teacher” (or NCFTE). IndiaSpend spoke to aspiring teachers, teachers and teacher trainers to understand how the framework was working in practice, and what they felt they need from the ...
India’s Need To Step Up Solar, Wind Capacity Addition
Nov 7, 2024 · Adding fuel to fire . Since the 1980s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one and the past nine years have been the warmest on record. 2023 was the warmest year on record by a huge margin, and 2024 carries on the trend.An example of warming in 2024 is that Mount Fuji in Japan has been without snowfall for the longest period in the last 130 years.
Explained: Why India’s Early Warning Systems For Floods And …
Jul 8, 2022 · The Indian government says it has modern, sophisticated early warning systems for floods and cyclones. But the lack of impact-based forecasts that identify risks, poor dissemination of information to people, lack of scientific data on the effectiveness of warning systems and lack of localised action plans to follow warnings, are some issues that plague India's Early Warning Systems (EWS), we ...
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