Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
Why a proposed Eco-Sensitive Zone around Gir forest is facing protests
Eco-Sensitive Zones act as shock absorbers for wildlife in Protected Areas when they move from areas of higher environmental protection to lower.
Sangham Sisters: Empowerment for Ecological Justice
The film explores the relationship between ecology and democracy, with the case study of Deccan Development Society Sanghams
Bioregionalism Satsang
The biggest attraction of bioregionalism is its giving co-space to human practices that have co-evolved with the local environment and its constraints to find a more sane lifestyle.
नर्मदा घाटी में विनाशकारी जलमग्नता से बचने के लिए तत्काल कार्रवाई (In Hindi)
विकल्प संगम महासभा मांग करती है कि केंद्र और गुजरात राज्य सरकारें तुरंत और अधिक द्वार खोलें। सरदार सरोवर परियोजना (एसएसपी) बांध व्यवस्थित तरीके से।
Statement Condemning Detention of Ladakhi Padyatris (marchers) at Singhu Border
We demand immediate release of all marchers, withdrawal of prohibitory orders and opening up of a genuinely sensitive dialogue with the Ladakh climate marchers.
निराशा के आलम में प्रेरणा का संगम (In Hindi)
पारंपरिक स्वशासन औऱ नई पंचायती राज जैसी व्यवस्थाओं में समानताएं व अंतर को खोजना, और लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था को मजबूत करना जरूरी है।
Green movements as guardians of Pune’s nature
Individual and collective actions by Punekars to save the city’s ecological heritage demonstrate people’s power to make significant environmental and social interventions.
Immediate Action to Avoid Catastrophic Submergence in Narmada Valley
VSGA demands that the central and Gujarat state governments, immediately open more gates of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam in an orderly way.
Solidarity with Ladakh’s ‘Delhi Chalo’ Yatra, Demanding Constitutional Safeguards
This Yatra highlights continued neglect of the region’s legitimate demands for special Constitutional status, enabling its people to protect their land, culture, environment and economic interests.