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This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …

against ceiling imposed, resorts / hotels, road construction/ widening /up-gradation, linear projects in … Venkateswara National Park (Andhra Pradesh);25 construction of underground pipeline and pump house in core …

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has conducted Household Consumption Expenditure surveys (HCES) regularly since its inception in 1950. Data on household consumption was collected annually from 1950–51 to 1973-74. …

1.8.1 The expenditure on purchase and construction of residential land and building, interest …

This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition …

The India Employment Report 2024 was published by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) on March 26, 2024. It is the third …

Important employment-generating sectors in construction, 2000–19 (%) 66 X Table 3.10. Important … Survey of Industries databases 54 X Box 9 Construction of the employment structure index 70 X Box … increase in non-farm employment was absorbed by construction and services. After 2019, this slow transition … workers and 70 per cent of such workers in the construction sector at the all-India level did not receive … 2000–19, accompanied by significant growth in the construction and service sectors. This trend reversed with …

IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …

wood burning, agricultural activities, and construction. Natural sources include dust storms, wildfires … gigawatts of coal-fired capacity permitted or under construction in 2023.18,19 This recently accelerated permitting … be built after 2023, those currently under construction can be completed and operated until 2050. HIGHLIGHT: … Bricks play an essential role in Bangladesh’s construction sector due to a lack of naturally occurring … pollutant sources included motor vehicles, construction, and industrial activity.72 HIGHLIGHT: INDUSTRIAL …

The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …

the two sources. Further, differences in the construction and use of price deflators may have non-trivial … workforce was employed in agriculture, 12.4% in construction, and only 11.6% in manufacturing, with the rest …

This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …

traditional sectors such as manufacturing and construction, or in new, emerging green sectors such as renewable … tra- ditional sectors such as manufacturing and construction, or in new, emerging green sectors such as … cotton, in the way that the Building and Other Construction Workers Boards (BOCW) impose a levy on the employers …

The Emissions Gap Report 2023 was published on November 20, 2023 by the United Nations Environment Programme. It is the 14th edition of the annual UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR), …

extracted over the lifetime of producing and under-construction mines and fields as at 2018 would emit more …

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …

seem to have maddened the river with excessive construction of dams. And in some places, borders have been … floods in different parts of Bengal after the construction of the railways. Crops were damaged severely … Bengal have repeatedly been flooded after the construction of the barrage, forcing people out of their … Sutlej in Punjab. Preparations were made for the construction of several dams on the Damodar river to control … is why people began to protest against the construction of big dams in the 1980s and ’90s—as we saw …

This case study on the analysis of heat stress in Delhi was written by Avikal Somvanshi and Sharanjeet Kaur. It was published by the Centre for Science and Environment, a …

of water, ORS and cool/shaded space in open construction sites, bus stands and other public places during …