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The writer is secretary, Ministry for Drinking Water and Sanitation. Views are personal.
June 15, 2026 06:20 IST
Institutional reforms are needed to enable urban local bodies to set up special-purpose instruments to manage reuse projects and convert them into a business opportunity.
Mon, Jun 15, 2026March 21, 2026 06:51 IST
Water is both a problem to be managed and a resource to be optimised. If we strengthen its governance, it can become a catalyst for economic transformation across every sector
Sat, Mar 21, 2026October 08, 2025 07:08 IST
Forty years ago, he led a contingent of 250 on a 220-km run from Agra to Delhi.
Wed, Oct 08, 2025December 07, 2024 04:00 IST
This digital ecosystem is transforming how India approaches infrastructure development
Sat, Dec 07, 2024October 15, 2024 06:54 IST
While Ratan Tata understood the importance of access to sanitation and its impact on the security and dignity of women and girls along with the health benefits for children, his quick decision to walk the talk and commit significant financial resources to the programme was game-changing
Tue, Oct 15, 2024September 10, 2024 07:50 IST
The four key lessons of the SBM became known as the four Ps — political leadership, public financing, partnerships and people’s participation. They are now globally recognised as vital for the success of most large, transformational developmental programmes
Tue, Sep 10, 2024April 19, 2024 08:00 IST
The 4P model — political leadership, public financing, partnerships and people’s participation — has made this possible.
Fri, Apr 19, 2024February 23, 2023 07:15 IST
National Data and Analytics Platform enables policy-makers and researchers to exploit the potential of government data
Thu, Feb 23, 2023February 07, 2023 07:10 IST
Focus on physical, digital and social infrastructure in Union budget places people at the heart of policy.
Tue, Feb 07, 2023January 23, 2023 07:10 IST
The programme improves governance by converging existing schemes, defining outcomes, and monitoring them on a constant basis
Mon, Jan 23, 2023October 19, 2022 04:42 IST
An enabling policy regime, proactive government initiatives and supportive regulatory administration allowed the private and public sector entities in the financial sector to overcome longstanding challenges of exclusion of a large part of the population.
Wed, Oct 19, 2022August 05, 2022 04:10 IST
Parameswaran Iyer writes: Concept of 'Lifestyle for the Environment' enunciated by PM Modi harnesses the power of individual and collective action across the world to address the climate crisis. The time is ripe for India to lead the LiFE movement and mainstream it
Fri, Aug 05, 2022October 08, 2021 03:00 IST
Parameswaran Iyer writes: As the odds-on favourite to win the Australian Open in January 2022, he could make it to 21 Grand Slam titles and break the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic tie of 20-20-20.
Sat, Oct 09, 2021August 21, 2020 03:48 IST
For all those who have had a chance during the successive lockdowns to think about taking an “unconventional” break, my advice is — take it.
Fri, Aug 21, 2020July 22, 2020 03:40 IST
Activities are now in full swing under the leadership of young “generalist” IAS officers. They have faced truly challenging times during COVID-19 and have come up trumps, as usual
Wed, Jul 22, 2020July 04, 2020 03:32 IST
If each of the 7.8 billion people around the world had to be inoculated, this would amount to an additional plastic consumption of 400 tonnes. Are we going to wait till the end of the pandemic to effectively dispose of plastic waste, or is the time now?
Sat, Jul 04, 2020May 07, 2020 00:38 IST
Many supply chain warriors, have stood up to serve the nation in these trying times. Their efforts bear testimony to the fact that the true character of a nation comes out in the face of adversity, and disruption is nothing but an opportunity for action.
Thu, May 07, 2020March 27, 2020 00:30 IST
In this threat is also an opportunity for the world — to make handwashing with soap the default behaviour and a key public health objective, even after the threat of the virus is behind us.
Fri, Mar 27, 2020February 22, 2020 00:46 IST
It is fairly clear now that investment in sanitation is actually a facilitator for broader economic, health and social gains. This is the chain of arguments that we encouraged the sanitation ministers of Africa assembled at Addis Ababa to use to bring their finance ministries on board.
Sat, Feb 22, 2020January 02, 2020 03:43 IST
A prime minister in the 1980s had famously said that of every rupee spent by the government, only 15 paise reached the intended beneficiaries. This statement symbolised the skew in emphasis on “policy” in favour of “implementation”.
Thu, Jan 02, 2020December 04, 2019 00:55 IST
When the benefits of government schemes are actually reaching the intended beneficiaries much more than ever before, the incentive to deny having facilities is at its highest. On the contrary, what does the household gain by acknowledging that it in fact does have access to the facility? Nothing.
Wed, Dec 04, 2019October 30, 2019 00:13 IST
He took to running, like a duck to water, and regularly ran 10-15 milers early morning. Once, in the dark of an early Delhi winter morning, he collided with a buffalo on Janpath road.
Wed, Oct 30, 2019October 02, 2019 04:00 IST
As the states prepare to dedicate an open defecation free (ODF) country to Gandhi@150, it is timely for us to analyse how this campaign became the global benchmark for participatory and transformative development.
Wed, Oct 02, 2019August 17, 2019 01:00 IST
Proposed Jal Jeevan Mission will be a decentralised, community-managed and sustainable water management scheme
Sat, Aug 17, 2019June 18, 2019 00:05 IST
Just like the country did in the Swachh Bharat Mission, India could lay out a template for other countries on securing national water security by integrating fragmented institutions and making water security everyone’s business.
Tue, Jun 18, 2019
