Recent Himalayan Highway Work Needs Unbiased Assessment of Costs and Benefits
Recent floods have caused very heavy damage to roads and highways in Himachal Pradesh. After a rapid assessment a fund of Rs. 400 crore was announced on August 1 by…
Himalayas
Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World
Thirteen thousand feet high on the far side of the Himalaya mountains, we have entered the past and the future at the same time. We are a medical expedition and…
Better Planning for Roads Will Help Himalayan People and Environment
Roads have a very important role in Himalayan region and , adding together the state and union budgets, the budgetary allocations are also significant. However there are costly distortions in…
Remote Himalayan Villages Need More Care
Several reports have been appearing from time to time which indicate increasing distress and problems in many remote Himalayan villages. To some extent this is a reflection of increasing problems…
The Himalayan Victims Of Climate Change
On the second anniversary of the 2014 Kashmir flood – dubbed by some as the worst in a century – I write this short piece as a victim of climate…
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