Small Holder Farmers and the Missing Piece in Business
NITI Aayog has recently drawn an exhaustive plan for achieving the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022-23 through a seven-point strategy. The government proclaims to give emphasis on raising farmers’ income rather than increasing the agriculture output (Press Trust of India, 2017). The contribution of agriculture to GDP was …
Waste does Matter
MSW generation rates are usually influenced by economic development, degree of industrialisation, public habits and local climate. Generally, higher the economic development and rate of urbanisation, the greater is the amount of solid waste produced. Income level and urbanisation are highly correlated. With increasing disposable incomes and living standards, consumption …
Role of Non-state actors in promoting Green Public Procurement
The answer to the question Public procurement rules in India are rather complex and a labyrinth of clauses and interjecting sub-clauses. In a diverse country like India, assimilation and dissemination of public procurement data is ridden by inefficiencies and imperviousness. The national government has tried to address the impervious nature …
Green Public Procurement – A Potential Game Changer for India
Green Public Procurement (GPP) may be simply defined as “public procurement for a better environment”. Green Public Procurement in other words can also be understood as a process whereby government and its agencies seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life-cycle when compared …
