Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM Gramin along the following parameters:
Allocations and expenditures
Physical progress of toilets built
Expenditures incurred under Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities
In addition, this brief reports findings from a fund tracking survey (PAISA) conducted in December 2015. The survey covered close to 7,500 Households, spread across 10 districts and 5 states in India.
The Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban (SBM-U) is the Government of India’s (GoI) flagship programme targeting universal sanitation coverage in urban areas.
Using government data, this brief reports on:
Allocations, releases, and expenditures,
State-wise and component wise trends in releases,
Progress on toilets built,
Progress on Solid Waste Management (SWM), and
Open Defecation Free (ODF) status.
This report explores the opportunities for investment in sanitation by the private sector, and it profiles 16 initiatives currently being undertaken for the provision of sanitation services and infrastructure, either through corporate social responsibility (CSR) funding, public private partnership (PPP), or independent corporate funding.
Suggested Citation: Shubhagato Dasgupta, DTV Raghu Ramaswamy, Kimberly Noronha, Smitha Rao, Seetharaman R., Nikhil George, Amandeep Singh, Tripti Singh, Swati Dhiman, Aditya Bhol. 2015. Swachh Bharat: Industry Engagement – Scope & Examples. SCI-FI: Sanitation Initiative, Research Report. New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research
Creating a framework of religion-state relations that would mollify tensions between religions, within religions, and between believers and non-believers, has been the bane of many a constitution-framer’s existence. And when issues pertaining to the ambit of religious freedom show up in the docket of the court, judges have struggled with interpreting these rights in a way that would create a fair trade-off between religious freedom and other human rights. Given these challenges, constitutional framers and judges increasingly look abroad for orientation, both to be inspired as well as to learn from negative lessons. As not much attention has been paid so far to the frameworks of religion-state relations that have migrated between constitutions and between courts, this conference set out to do so.
Suggested Citation: Mirjam Künkler, Shylashri Shankar and Tine Stein, Symposium Report–Constitutionalism, Religious Freedom and Human Rights: Constitutional Migration and Transjudicialism beyond the North Atlantic, Int’l. J. Const. L. Blog, Feb. 23, 2016,
This study looks at the development of legal and regulatory framework governing drinking water and sanitation services in South Africa, England and United States. Around 780 million worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water and almost 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation according to data published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In such a situation, it becomes extremely important to study the legal and regulatory measures used internationally to control, manage and improve these resources. This study, covering South Africa, England and USA, sets out to identify, comprehend and analyze these legal frameworks and structures; examine the control exercised by national, state/provincial as well as municipal governments over water and sanitation-related questions; and the responsive measures being taken by them to preserve the water resources and their quality for future generations. The authors have observed that in presence of varying geographical, historical and social factors, while it would be impossible to compare each model against the other on the basis of merit, it becomes increasingly important for governments to balance the individual’s right to water with the planet’s ecological balance.
India has the second-fastest growing economy in the world and is committed to minimizing the impacts of climate change. The nation has adopted a National Action Plan on Climate Change to guide its efforts in building a low-carbon economy. Strong energy efficiency measures—in buildings of all types—are a key focus of India’s actions to reduce its carbon trajectory.
The overall vision of Project Nirmal is the demonstration of appropriate, low-cost, decentralized, inclusive and sustainable sanitation service delivery solutions for two small towns (Angul and Dhenkanal) in Odisha leading to improved sanitation access for all households and integration of FSM in the sanitation value chain, through enabling institutional and financial arrangements and increased private sector participation.
The project is being implemented by Practical Action and Centre for Policy Research with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Arghyam; Housing and Urban Development, Government of Odisha; and Municipalities of Angul and Dhenkanal.
A key driver of ambition envisioned in the Paris package is a “facilitative dialogue” among parties in 2018. This dialogue is mandated to take stock of the collective efforts of parties toward the long-term goal set out in Article 4.1, and is intended to inform the preparation of the next round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs).1 This background paper provides a negotiating and political context for the convening of the facilitative dialogue, and discusses a range of issues and options relating to its purpose, scope and design.
Suggested Citation: Rajamani, L. (2017). Structuring the UNFCCC 2018 Facilitative Dialogue. C2ES Policy Brief. Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Delhi in collaboration with the BSE Ltd., Mumbai have started a monthly Macro Economic Seminar Series. The objective of these Seminars is to generate fresh analytical insights into the Indian macroeconomic issues for potential use by policy makers. The unique format of these seminars is to bring together macroeconomists who have different perspectives on the state of the macro economy, depending upon their location in think tanks, financial institutions and corporate organisations. The Second seminar of the series was held at CPR, Delhi on 30th November. The topic of the seminar was ‘Channelling household savings to productive uses through the capital markets’. A panel discussion between Ajit Ranade, K P Krishnan and Praveen Chakravarty was moderated by Partha Mukhopadhyay. Household (HH) savings hascontinued to account for the bulk of gross domestic savings over the years. Recent trend shows that share of HH savings into physical assets is rising as compared to that in financial assets. Interestingly, in the decade 2004 to 2014, India has imported $176bn of gold (including re-export) which is higher than $130bn of FII inflows. This has raised questions on why Capital market has not been able to attract HH savings to spur economic growth. Moreover, in spite of increase in number of listed companies and market capitalisation, capital raised through IPO is less than 1 percent of GDP in India and even falling. So, it is necessary to look into how savings can be intermediated through capital market into capital formation.