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Pakistan at crossroads - Pakistan Observer

Pakistan at crossroads - Pakistan Observer
pakobserver.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pakobserver.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Pakistan , Malaysia , India , Afghanistan , Iran , Lahore , Punjab , Hundi , Sindh , Give-subsidies , Real-estate

Voice of the People - Pakistan Observer

Voice of the People - Pakistan Observer
pakobserver.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pakobserver.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

Lahore , Punjab , Pakistan , Karachi , Sindh , Shahnawaz , Buzdar , North-west-frontier , Larkana , Christian-lous-lange , Imran-khan , Khan-saheb

Review of 'A Red-necked Green Bird' by Ambai, trs G.J.V. Prasad

Psychologically candid stories that capture the uncertainties of the mind

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Are India's Cities Planning to Be Victims of Climate Change? A Tale From Gujarat

Are Indiaâs Cities Planning to Be Victims of Climate Change? A Tale From Gujarat
An excerpt from 'Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope' by M. Rajshekhar, published by Westland/Context.
Traffic moves along roads in Ahmedabad, India, March 21, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave
Urban20/Jan/2021
The following is an unedited excerpt, published with permission, from Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
by M. Rajshekhar, published by Westland/Context, January 2021.
India’s track record on climate adaptive/mitigative urban planning has been dismal. Most buildings and houses use construction material that absorb heat and drive up cooling costs. Cities have low and decreasing tree cover, and rising hard spaces. As Bangalore found in 2017, even after heavy rains, there is little groundwater recharge. In city after city, lakes, which can recharge groundwater, are being killed through real estate development. Little thought is given to water supply. Instead, as water scarcities loom, cities source water from farther and farther away. Peri-urban areas are a different kind of a nightmare. In state after state, panchayat presidents have allowed even five- to seven-storeyed buildings outside municipal boundaries. ‘When the municipal corporation expands its limits, it finds these strange places where buildings are standing, but there are no roads, water supply or sewage,’ said G.K. Bhat, the founder of Taru, an environmental consultancy based in Ahmedabad. ‘The whole place works only on groundwater.’

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