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Dear Reader,
India is all set to accelerate its drive to a credible and effective carbon market -- where carbon credits are bought and sold -- to decarbonise its hard-to-abate industries. This effort, through the carbon credit trading scheme (CCTS) and other measures, will position India among nations with functional carbon markets, enabling Indian firms to compete globally.
However, The India Forum notes that the success of the quest for a credible carbon market rests on creating an institutional mechanism for trading carbon credits, setting ambitious but not impossible targets and establishing a transparent and simple enforcement mechanism.
Among many indigenous communities in India, the ‘mahua’ tree and its flower have long been held in special reverence—in prayers, songs, and rituals. They venerate it for its value as food, medicine, facilitator of forest biodiversity, and a mild intoxicant. In Madhya Pradesh, Mahua’s cultural significance and economic potential for contributing to the local economy have been recognised by branding it as “heritage liquor.”
However, things have not gone to plan. Main Bhi Bharat reports that despite government efforts and promises to make Mahua a significant player in the economy, the efforts have largely floundered. For instance, the state-supported Mahua liquor factories, like the one in Kathiwada, are struggling to survive.
Usually, the arrival of new trains and connections would be a happy augury. Not so for Jammu & Kashmir’s apple growers when officials began visiting them to measure their orchards as a prelude to acquiring them for proposed new rail lines. The apple growers, with modest holdings, fear that the land acquisition will deprive them of the only life and livelihood that they have known.
However, the Centre has argued that the more than 324 km kilometres of new tracks in Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian, and Pulwama in the south and Baramulla and Kupwara in the north will drive renewed development and connectivity in the region and generate employment and livelihood. Article 14 reports.
And, people with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable groups in India. More so because an unemotional and apathetic state, instead of facilitating their lives, is habituated to make it tougher and rougher. The Probe examines the working of one such scheme – the Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) – where bureaucracy and archaic data practices are defeating the very purpose of the initiative – to provide a modicum of essential support to people with disabilities.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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