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Right to Walk as a Fundamental Right
@CPR_India colleague @arkajasingh reflects on the Supreme Court's observation that the right to walk must go beyond finding engineering solutions to creating inclusive spaces.
Link: indianexpress.com/article/ex…
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The Supreme Court has said that walking on footpaths is a fundamental right. This right, however, must go beyond finding engineering solutions to creating inclusive spaces. @arkajasingh writes
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Is the water coming out of the tap safe to drink?
In an article published in @IndianExpress, Ms @arkajasingh (Fellow, CPR), examines the recent sewage contamination of drinking water in Delhi’s Gulmohar Park to explore the broader challenges of urban water governance in India.
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Does relaxing zoning regulations increase affordable housing or simply trigger the construction of new, larger units?
Join us on Tuesday, 21st April, at 3:00 PM IST for a talk by @gandhisahil (Assistant Professor, @OfficialUoM) as he discusses how a relaxation of the regulatory cap on building height and floorspace affects housing supply, drawing on a case study of Mumbai. @arkajasingh (Fellow, CPR) will join the session as a discussant.
This talk will be held in a hybrid mode at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.
Register to attend: cprindia.org/events/relaxing…
Thank you for saying this. The EOL policy makes little environmental sense, penalises car owners and rewards car companies. There should be a right to repair, maintain and upgrade. And surely governments can spend a little more money to have credible fitness tests.
Delhi's End-of-Life (EOL) vehicle policy has gone off track. Owners are being forced to junk perfectly running cars due to fear, not facts. Moms have been connecting many stories to the media and authorities.
A well maintained 10 year old car emits less than a neglected new one, yet no scope for fitness checks?
Delhi has 62 lakh EOL vehicles, yet even low mileage, BS IV cars with valid emissions are being scrapped. In 2024, 39000+ impounded, with no fitness tests allowed.
Why not adopt conditional extensions, as other states do?
We need cleaner air and smarter policy.
And policy that curbs pollution,
not punish prudence!
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/… via @ishita_jairath @timesofindia
@CPCB_OFFICIAL @CAQM_Official @PrinSciAdvGoI @LtGovDelhi @CMODelhi
Why do people think it’s netas and babus? They may be part of the roadwidening problem, but engineers and the entire technical community of urban development are much more to blame. There’s an east-west problem also in the imagination of trees.
In case you happen to be in need of a tailor, and are in south delhi, I want to recommend the services of Noorjehan Tailors in Meherchand Market. They’re excellent and can make just about anything for ladies and kids.
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FRI 19 APR @ 3.45PM, @CPR_India alumna @persistara, now at @BirkbeckLaw, with @zerahmh on impact of smart governance on multiscalar govt. in the #globalsouth Are #SmartCities a new curtailment of municipal democracy or an old trend? Join in person or on zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Join us this Friday for a special talk on 'Historicising Indian Smart Cities' featuring @persistara. This talk will be moderated by Dr Marie-Helene Zerah.
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Register here: cprindia.org/events/historic…
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In the latest edition of CPR Perspectives, @arkajasingh talks about her wide range of work at @CPR_India with different initiatives, her advise to young researchers, recommendations and much more.
Listen here: cprindia.org/podcast/
Thanks very much to @RohanV and the folks at @CPR_India for this conversation. I enjoyed having it, and enjoyed getting lovely messages from people who read it.
In this edition of Perspectives, @RohanV speaks to @arkajasingh on her path to the world of public policy & @CPR_India, her myriad research interests & her experience of working with different Initiatives at CPR.
Read the full interview here: cprindia.org/cpr-perspective…
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These men are the rat-hole miners, skilled workers who drilled through the debris pile manually and create a narrow passageway to the 41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand.
The team of 24 rat miners and NDRF are the real heroes of this 17-Day rescue mission.
This tragedy, at the heart of it, is no different from sewer deaths, engineering norms thrown to the winds at the cost of migrant workers, adivasis and Dalits. No one is ever held accountable for the cost of jugaad engineering.
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Delighted to announce my book "India's Communal Constitution: Law, Religion and the Making of a People".
Published by CUP India @RanaAnwesha @qudsiya_Ah @royanandadeep
Please do pass on to all those interested and especially librarians
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There are lots of problems with personal laws, but these are false binaries. My personal law should be fair to me, in the context I inhabit, how does it matter if it’s different for my neighbour, as long as hers is fair to her too?
Read the first instalment of #Decoding_the_Code - a series of special features by @Vidhi_India on the #uniform_civil_code with the @timesofindia.
Drafting the UCC is an opportunity to end discrimination in Indian family law. Read our Model Code here - shorturl.at/hstO6
ALT 'UCC an opportunity to end discrimination in family law'
This is just an amazing study in the jurisdictional battles of environmental management. Ports, municipality, disaster management, even a police punchnama scroll.in/latest/1053378/pla… via @scroll_in
It’s such a cliche to say we need better urban planning. No one wants to talk about the quality of engineering. For several weeks before the rain Delhi’s PWD engages bands of drunk men to climb into the underground drains to open them up. And it’s never enough. #manualscavenging
#HTEditorial | A marooned Delhi should draw attention to outdated draining plans and hapless planning
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Which is to say that the underground drainage system is chaotic and highly compromised. For most of the year it’s possible to make small fixes, by sending manual scavengers in, and perhaps sometimes with machines too, but even an ordinary monsoon is too much for it.