Stem cells have an interesting history, hugely replete with varied discourse, debate and controversy. Researchers, in mid 1800s, discovered that cells were basically the building blocks of life, and that some cells had the ability to produce other cells. Later on, owing to several years of...

The problem of funding relief expenditure has been recognized by every finance commission since the second because of which each of the successive finance commission has made recommendations with regard to provision for relief expenditure out of the revenues of the states and the extent of...

In Uttarakhand, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGS or MNREGA) started functioning in the initial year 2006 with three districts and later in all districts in three phases. MNREGA is an act, passed in 2005, after the implementation of which employment has become the...

Recent debates over ‘Devalaya and Shauchalaya’ have foregrounded the importance and need of access to sanitation facilities, besides the places of worship, for raising the standard of life. This paper assesses their changes using data from Census of India, 2001 and 2011and National Sample...

The impacts of climate change have been in discussion for quite some time. It not only affects the atmosphere in terms of temperature rise, it also affects our socio-economic relations and all the webs that are tied with ecological and environmental conditions. Towards this, the paper by Sharma...

Reducing Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is the global endeavour to create incentive for developing countries to protect, better manage and save their forest resources, thus contributing to the global fight against climate change. REDD plus goes beyond merely checking...

The relationship between climate change and agriculture is not a new phenomenon. In last fifty years, there has been a lot of academic focus on dealing with the issues of climate change in the field of agriculture. Climate change is believed to affect agriculture by inducing changes on farmer...

Environment as it stands today; is a subject much discussed but less used in our daily lives. If we can use and not abuse our ecology; we might make our lives better in every sense i.e. working in our gardens gives us mental peace, physical exercise, fresh fruits and vegetables and most of all;...

‘Homemaking’ refers to unremunerated non-market activities, performed by family members themselves (esp. women), for production of goods and services for self-consumption, which are neither taken into consideration while evaluating Gross Domestic Product (GDP) nor while calculating labour...

With rapid urbanization and shortage of space, various departments have started moving their offices and universities/ colleges to the rural areas. As a result there has been a very rapid change in the land use / land cover pattern of fringes connecting urban and rural areas. However with this...