Tag: NCR

Behind the Facade of Forest Conservation Lay One Lakh Displaced Residents...

The abuse, mistreatment and erasure of the residents of Khori Gaon in the name of forest conservation is emblematic of the challenges that marginalised residents (being termed as ‘encroachers’) face across the country.

As Delhi’s Yamuna Reservoir Project Winds Up Its Pilot, Farmers Have...

While experts have called this project “largely successful,” farmers in the region have questions about how the pilot—and scaling it to other parts—might compromise their long-term farming productivity.

Caught in the Tangles of Court Orders and ‘Development’, the Yamuna...

As ‘encroachers’ are evicted to ‘beautify’ the riverbank under different development initiatives, ultimately, the Yamuna remains as polluted as ever.

Social and Emotional Learning Can Help Indian Schools Deal With the...

India needs to develop a contextualised framework for Social and Emotional Learning to address the pandemic's mental impacts on students and caregivers.

Given Only Two Non-Working Days to Reopen, New Delhi’s Government Schools...

Given only two non-working days to reopen, public schools in New Delhi are struggling to resume offline classes that meet health and safety requirements.

“Our Handwriting May Be Bad, But Our Message is Clear”: Doctors...

What roles can doctors play in communicating the ill effects of air pollution to patients, and can their role go beyond hospitals?

The Hits and Misses of the Pusa Capsule, the Delhi Government’s...

As the Delhi Government pushes the Pusa decomposer as a successful alternative to stubble burning, New Delhi's farmers highlight its hits and misses.

In Pedestrian-Heavy Patna, Crores are Being Invested in Road and Metro...

There has been a phenomenal growth in the number of metro rail projects across Indian cities in the last decade, despite hard evidence that...

Delhi’s Master Plan Ignores the City’s Fishers, But This is Not...

While Delhi's Master Plan 2041 proposes green belts and parks along the Yamuna, it excludes those dependent on its resources: like Delhi’s 2,500 fishers.

Finding Delhi’s “Encroachers”: The Lal Dora Investigation

Aside from low-income "encroachers" of common land, there are much larger players in Delhi who must also share the blame of worsening Delhi’s land scarcity.