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Is the water coming out of the tap safe to drink?
In an article published in @IndianExpress, Ms @arkajasingh (Fellow, CPR), examines the recent sewage contamination of drinking water in Delhi’s Gulmohar Park to explore the broader challenges of urban water governance in India.
indianexpress.com/article/ex…
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arkajasingh retweeted
Does relaxing zoning regulations increase affordable housing or simply trigger the construction of new, larger units?
Join us on Tuesday, 21st April, at 3:00 PM IST for a talk by @gandhisahil (Assistant Professor, @OfficialUoM) as he discusses how a relaxation of the regulatory cap on building height and floorspace affects housing supply, drawing on a case study of Mumbai. @arkajasingh (Fellow, CPR) will join the session as a discussant.
This talk will be held in a hybrid mode at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.
Register to attend: cprindia.org/events/relaxing…
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24 Jun 2025
Thank you for saying this. The EOL policy makes little environmental sense, penalises car owners and rewards car companies. There should be a right to repair, maintain and upgrade. And surely governments can spend a little more money to have credible fitness tests.
24 Jun 2025
Delhi's End-of-Life (EOL) vehicle policy has gone off track. Owners are being forced to junk perfectly running cars due to fear, not facts. Moms have been connecting many stories to the media and authorities.
A well maintained 10 year old car emits less than a neglected new one, yet no scope for fitness checks?
Delhi has 62 lakh EOL vehicles, yet even low mileage, BS IV cars with valid emissions are being scrapped. In 2024, 39000 impounded, with no fitness tests allowed.
Why not adopt conditional extensions, as other states do?
We need cleaner air and smarter policy.
And policy that curbs pollution,
not punish prudence!
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/… via @ishita_jairath @timesofindia
@CPCB_OFFICIAL @CAQM_Official @PrinSciAdvGoI @LtGovDelhi @CMODelhi
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16 Jun 2025
Why do people think it’s netas and babus? They may be part of the roadwidening problem, but engineers and the entire technical community of urban development are much more to blame. There’s an east-west problem also in the imagination of trees.
16 Jun 2025
In a Hot and Humid country like INDIA, this is exactly how our cities should look, full of trees and shade.
But our Netas and Babus would probably get a heart attack seeing this much Greenery. 🙏🤷🏻♂️
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20 Jul 2024
In case you happen to be in need of a tailor, and are in south delhi, I want to recommend the services of Noorjehan Tailors in Meherchand Market. They’re excellent and can make just about anything for ladies and kids.
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arkajasingh retweeted
17 Apr 2024
FRI 19 APR @ 3.45PM, @CPR_India alumna @persistara, now at @BirkbeckLaw, with @zerahmh on impact of smart governance on multiscalar govt. in the #globalsouth Are #SmartCities a new curtailment of municipal democracy or an old trend? Join in person or on zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
16 Apr 2024
Join us this Friday for a special talk on 'Historicising Indian Smart Cities' featuring @persistara. This talk will be moderated by Dr Marie-Helene Zerah.
Details Below
Register here: cprindia.org/events/historic…
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arkajasingh retweeted
23 Jan 2024
In the latest edition of CPR Perspectives, @arkajasingh talks about her wide range of work at @CPR_India with different initiatives, her advise to young researchers, recommendations and much more.
Listen here: cprindia.org/podcast/
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19 Jan 2024
Thanks very much to @RohanV and the folks at @CPR_India for this conversation. I enjoyed having it, and enjoyed getting lovely messages from people who read it.
18 Jan 2024
In this edition of Perspectives, @RohanV speaks to @arkajasingh on her path to the world of public policy & @CPR_India, her myriad research interests & her experience of working with different Initiatives at CPR.
Read the full interview here: cprindia.org/cpr-perspective…
#50yearsofCPR
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18 Nov 2023
This tragedy, at the heart of it, is no different from sewer deaths, engineering norms thrown to the winds at the cost of migrant workers, adivasis and Dalits. No one is ever held accountable for the cost of jugaad engineering.
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arkajasingh retweeted
6 Sep 2023
Delighted to announce my book "India's Communal Constitution: Law, Religion and the Making of a People".
Published by CUP India @RanaAnwesha @qudsiya_Ah @royanandadeep
Please do pass on to all those interested and especially librarians
amazon.in/Indias-Communal-Co…
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3 Aug 2023
There are lots of problems with personal laws, but these are false binaries. My personal law should be fair to me, in the context I inhabit, how does it matter if it’s different for my neighbour, as long as hers is fair to her too?
3 Aug 2023
Read the first instalment of #Decoding_the_Code - a series of special features by @Vidhi_India on the #uniform_civil_code with the @timesofindia.
Drafting the UCC is an opportunity to end discrimination in Indian family law. Read our Model Code here - shorturl.at/hstO6
ALT 'UCC an opportunity to end discrimination in family law'
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29 Jul 2023
This is just an amazing study in the jurisdictional battles of environmental management. Ports, municipality, disaster management, even a police punchnama scroll.in/latest/1053378/pla… via @scroll_in
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29 Jul 2023
And meanwhile there seems to be a Korean green energy company and some illegal waste dumping in the picture. The investigation and cleanup need powers and expertise that none of these agencies have on their own.
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11 Jul 2023
It’s such a cliche to say we need better urban planning. No one wants to talk about the quality of engineering. For several weeks before the rain Delhi’s PWD engages bands of drunk men to climb into the underground drains to open them up. And it’s never enough. #manualscavenging
11 Jul 2023
#HTEditorial | A marooned Delhi should draw attention to outdated draining plans and hapless planning
#HTPremium
hindustantimes.com/editorial…
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11 Jul 2023
Which is to say that the underground drainage system is chaotic and highly compromised. For most of the year it’s possible to make small fixes, by sending manual scavengers in, and perhaps sometimes with machines too, but even an ordinary monsoon is too much for it.
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11 Jul 2023
And yet every year, all the newspapers have the same editorials about ‘urban planning’. It’s as empty as saying ‘we need better political will’.
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arkajasingh retweeted
9 Feb 2023
Starting in the late 1990s, India established several regulatory agencies. A new paper by @arkajasingh explores the design of five such agencies established post-liberalisation from an administrative perspective
#Thread #NewResearch #Regulation cprindia.org/workingpapers/i…
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arkajasingh retweeted
27 Jul 2022
#KnowYourRegulator talk: Mr Sutirtha Bhattacharya, Chairperson, West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission also featuring @AshwiniKSwain, @arkajasingh, Praveen Kumar and Abha Yadav
Friday, 29 July 2022, 4PM IST on Zoom @IICAOfficial
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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