Settlements and Transport

Human settlements with sustainability, equity, and fulfillment. Sustainable, equitable means including non-motorised and public transport

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This features both rural and urban areas, and the search to make human settlements sustainable, equitable, and fulfilling places to live and work in. This includes: sustainable architecture, localized generation of basic infrastructural, water and energy needs, urban biodiversity conservation, waste/garbage minimisation and recycling, efficiency and frugality in the use of these basics, the defense and revival of common and open spaces, participatory budgeting and planning of settlements.

We would also like to include stories of sustainable, equitable means of transport that can be accessed by all and that do not create ecological and social problems as is the case with a focus on privatized motorized transport. Stories on the promotion of public transport, cycling, walking, human/animal powered and other forms of ecologically sustainable and equitable transportation, planning for equitable access, reclaiming the roads and parking lots for public use, and so on, are featured.

Expensive, elitist models that may be ecologically sustainable but are not relevant for most people, are likely to be avoided here.

In Ahmedabad, women act to make slums climate-resilient, one house at a time

“We focus on the 4 prevalent stresses of the slums - heat stress, floods, vector-borne diseases, and water scarcity,”

Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course

"This wetland should be declared amongst protected areas associated with Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary ....”

Pune: Bavdhan Residents To Observe ‘No Vehicle Day’ On First Sunday Of Every Month

You can walk, run, cycle, use public transport but not start your two-wheeler or your car

उत्तराखंड की आवाज है हेंवलवाणी (in Hindi)

स्थानीय भाषा गढ़वाली में हेंवलवाणी सामुदायिक रेडियो के कार्यक्रम होते हैं, जिनका मुख्य जोर स्थानीय जरूरतें व समुदाय से जुड़े मुद्दे हैं

A citizen’s movement to protect wetlands emerges in Jammu and Kashmir

"... strategies on which catchment area is more yielding, how to remove weeds in springs, how to handle solid waste management in our wetlands etc.,”

Uttarakhand: Reaching the unreached

Development is best done when it is undertaken by the locals.

In the pursuit of ‘Khushaal Zindagi’- Journey of villagers from being Beneficiary to Researcher

The discussion on the imagination of ‘Khushaal zindagi’ (Good Life) brought different age and sex groups to talk to each other.

Fruit bowl beats the lockdown

"I didn’t need anyone’s help to meet him (the District Collector). He listened patiently and advised remedial measures.”

In a First, a City Frees a River Using Funds Meant To Concretise It

The best way to mitigate flood damage (by rivers) is to let (their) floodplains be(!)