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Dust and Smoke:
By Awadhendra Sharan
Air pollution is now the world’s leading environmental risk factor. It reportedly causes 5 million deaths globally, India and China alone contributing 1.2 million deaths each. With increased inconveniences and suffering on account of the poor quality of outdoor and indoor air in India, it is imperative to look at how air is impacted by our activities, how it is regulated, and how it affects spaces and bodies across class and gender.
‘Dust and Smoke’ examines the history of smoke as a nuisance in Indian cities, particularly in colonial Calcutta and Bombay. It studies the varied sources of energy used for domestic and industrial purposes, the persistence of old trades, the organisation of industrial production, labouring practices, and urban development projects which produced new sites of work, habitats and commodities on the one hand, and smoke and dust on the other.
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India has been witnessing a sluggish demand growth for power amidst COVID-19. It has affected both thermal as well as renewable energy (RE) sector. While thermal sector (coal) plant load factor (PLF) is coming down continuously amidst no new generation building up, renewable energy held its ground through several government measures despite no new appetite shown by the distribution companies. The pipeline is constantly building up for renewable energy assets through new bidding by SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India) and NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation). The policy push to support renewable energy by providing it the most run status helps in building momentum for the investors.
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Maharashtra Veej Grahak Sanghatana, a state-level coordination committee of industrial associations and power consumers, has approached the state government for urgent intervention on key concerns after Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission on December 9 published the draft of the MERC (Electricity Supply Code and Standards of Performance of Distribution Licensees including Power Quality) Regulations, 2020, inviting public suggestions and objections.
The committee pointed out that the commission’s draft on changes goes against recently notified Ministry of Power, GoI, Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020. “MERC regulations have to be consistent with MoP Rules and cannot have such contradictions,” it says.
The committee in its suggestions and objections says that there is nothing new in the draft regulations and offer no improvements to the existing Supply Code Regulations 2005 and MERC (Standards of Performance of Distribution Licensees, Period fo
Karnataka’s giant leaps backward
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It has squandered its precious political and administrative heritage
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It has squandered its precious political and administrative heritage
My local bank has a framed picture of M. Visvesvaraya on its wall, a curious throwback to an era of optimistic belief that over time, Mysore, and later the enlarged State of Karnataka, would take its place among the most modernised and industrialised regions of India. Certainly, Visvesvaraya, as Chief Engineer and then Dewan and even in unofficial capacities, hoped that the State would enter into and reorganise nearly all aspects of economic, social and cultural life to make Mysore modern – in the absence of a social class before independence that could lead that transformation.