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It would require a reimagining of engineering and science policies from a sociological perspective. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Representational Image. (Photo | Sunish P Surendran) Tamil Nadu’s State Development Policy Council (SDPC) has its task cut out. The announcement appointing eminent economist J Jeyaranjan as its vice-chairperson came on the heels of the news that India had slipped two ranks in the Sustainable Development Goals index. The country now stands at rank 117 among a total of 193 UN member states because it failed to make substantial progress in ending poverty and hun...

It gets worse each summer Water nightmares are back, but are the right lessons being learnt? The northern and eastern States are staring at a water crisis, with an early summer threatening to make matters worse. The latest Central Water Commission data on reservoir levels (as on April 8) makes for grim reading. The eight reservoirs being monitored by CWC in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan are filled up to just 21 per cent of their live storage capacity, against 48 per cent in the corresponding period last year and the 10 year average of 33 per cent. The 20 reservoirs being m...