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Dear Reader,
Parts of India went dark in the last week of April as the daily peak power shortage rose to over 10,000 megawatts, with power deficits reaching a steep 15 per cent in some states, impacting economic activity and productivity apart from adversely affecting citizen’s lives. The India Forum analyses the causes of this power shortage and traces the structural anomalies and aberrations that continue to plague the power sector.
In 2020, 14 million Indians became climate refugees as a consequence of extreme weather events, and by 2050 climate change is slated to displace 45 million citizens. India Development Review asserts that policymakers need to plan and build a climate refugee framework, including innovative adaptation models and provision of climate refugee funds, if we are to salvage the situation.
Almost two decades after the iconic people’s movement and protests led to the closure of the Coca Cola factory in Palakkad’s Plachimada village in Kerala, the affected are yet to be compensated, even though successive governments had promised relief and compensation. TrueCopy Think reports from the ground.
And, Main Media narrates the intriguing case of a bridge too far. As river Bakhra in Araria in Bihar changes course time and again, multiple attempts to build a bridge across it, with crores spent, have proved futile.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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