The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Indian government has now come forward with its latest draft policy, aimed at repowering old and low-performing wind turbines to maximise…
Rairangpur is a city in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, which recently came into the limelight when Droupadi Murmu, who hails from the city, was elected as the 15th President…
Dhinkia village in Jagatsinghpur district lies around two kilometers away from the Bay of Bengal coast in the eastern state of Odisha. Last month, after the India Meteorological Department (IMD)…
Saraju Nayak is a woman farmer based at Jirabadi village under the Bhanjnagar Block of disaster-prone Ganjam district in Odisha. Her family owns around 10 acres of land in the…
As winter was about to set in the coastal state of Odisha, Batakrushna Sahoo, 71, was preparing to travel to New Delhi for an event he had never earlier imagined…
Jagdev Prasad is a farmer based in Baghar village in Barachatti block of Gaya district in Bihar. He owns 3.5 acres of agricultural land in the village and often grows…
In August 2014, Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited Dharnai village in Jehanabad district of Bihar to inaugurate a 100 kilowatt solar mini-grid in the village that would supply electricity.…
Gehlaur, a village next to rocky hills, in the Muhra Block of Gaya district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, caught national attention in 2015, when a Hindi movie…
Early last month, a notice was sent out from a local police station to some of the residents from 51 villages around the Mali Parbat, a hill in the Koraput…
Until 2017, Thanagarha village in the Morigaon district of Assam had not seen electricity. Students here studied under the light from oil-based lanterns. Families would wrap up their daily chores…
Piyush Ranjan Rout is an urban planner based in Bhubaneswar, the capital city of the eastern Indian coastal state of Odisha. He had installed a 1kW off-grid solar panel on…
At the ongoing Glasgow climate summit, several countries including India, global and local automobile manufacturers and other stakeholders have agreed to work together to move towards zero vehicular emissions by…
Ramagundam in the Peddapalli district of Telangana has a unique landscape. The Godavari river flows on one side of the city and lush green hillocks add to the natural beauty.…
After months of rain between July to September, when dry weather finally began to show up, people in the hill state of Uttarakhand assumed that the monsoon had receded. There…
Sandeep Acharya, a 23-year-old college student from Pargi, a small hilly city in Vikarabad district of Telangana, is a witness to the state’s focus on clean energy and its impact…
Telangana's gradual shift towards renewable energy-powered public transport system is resulting in savings worth millions and earning the state agencies plaudits from the public. Utilising clean energy, primarily solar, in…
Ramu Malto (name changed) is a member of Sauria Paharia, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) from Jharkhand. He would pride himself on the proximity to the historic Rajmahal hills,…
Bihar's progress towards a state Climate Change Action Plan is slow because of dearth of localised data. The state government had earlier framed a Climate Change Action Plan but it…