India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, said that a lockdown in states should be the last resort. Multiple states in India have announced night curfews and weekend lockdowns in the past few weeks. Delhi has been put under a full lockdown till April 26. But lockdowns might not be enough. Here is why according to […]
India has recently surpassed Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. With a staggering 200,000 plus cases reported yesterday, the virus is sparing no one – whether young or old, vaccinated or not vaccinated. So, will the arrival of imported vaccines change anything? Going by the history of pandemics, once […]
NITI Aayog
Preparation of Concept Development Plans & Detailed Master Plans for Holistic Development of package I, III, IV islands
Nestled in the Indian Ocean, Lakshadweep, and Andaman and Nicobar are two separate archipelago bestowed with rich biodiversity...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently in the middle of a meeting with Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and other top officials regarding the fate of the conduction of the upcoming board exams across the country. Students have been pushing for the postponement and cancellation of the CBSE board exams 2021 due to the rise […]
It has been an unprecedented year. A year that has seen lockdowns, fear, migrant’s crisis, employment loss, economic recovery, vaccine, indifference, and we again stand at the cliff-edge – crossing 100k per day – a step further can mean a repeat cycle. COVID has brought to light and peeled-off, layer-by-layer, the inefficiencies that mar our […]
Technical Assistance Project on Integrated Solid Waste Management Improvement Project, Bangladesh
Technical Assistance Project on Integrated Solid Waste Management Improvement Project, Bangladesh
The primary objective of this project is to lead and develop decentralised international urban cooperation between local authorities from the EU and Asia...
India is the third-worst performer country in South Asia in World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. According to the report, India has slipped 28 places to rank 140th among 156 countries. In Global Gender Gap Index 2020, the country had ranked 112th among 153 countries. It is noteworthy that India has closed 62.5% […]
The outbreak’s impact highlighted several critical and structural gaps in the Indian healthcare system too. However, strong collaboration between the public and private healthcare sector proved to be beneficial in identifying solutions and in implementing the world’s largest vaccination programme such as the collaboration with SAMRIDH Blended Health Finance and IPE Global to scale up […]
India is witnessing a sharp surge in Covid-19 cases with nearly 400,000 active cases in India. What is worrying is that this spike comes at a time when vaccine options are available and a high number of doses are being administered daily. No doubt, this is not enough. Distribution hurdles coupled with vaccine supply and […]
The outbreak’s impact highlighted several critical and structural gaps in the Indian healthcare system too. However, strong collaboration between the public and private healthcare sector proved to be beneficial in identifying solutions and in implementing the world’s largest vaccination programme such as the collaboration with SAMRIDH Blended Health Finance and IPE Global to scale up […]
India will have to strengthen its testing, contact tracing and surveillance to prevent yet another wave of coronavirus infections as the country appears to be on the verge of a second covid-19 wave with cases surging unabated once again, said public health experts.
Technical assistance to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for the preparation of Urban Water Supply Guidelines
Technical assistance to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for the preparation of Urban Water Supply Guidelines; Support in implementation of AMRUT 2.0 & Design and Operation of a National Investment Challenge
The project is designed to support to MoHUA for design of an investment challenge aligned to urban water & sanitation priorities, to incentivize ULBs and promote demonstration projects aligned with the policy objectives of the Urban JJM including...
