India does not seem to lack for promises to plant trees. What it seems to lack, apparently more significantly, is something else: functional forests. This is the rather troubling conclusion to emerge from the latest performance audit of the Green India Mission (GIM) by the Comptroller and Auditor General. The mission was envisaged as one ...

An audit carried out recently by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has revealed issues regarding drinking water quality as well as basic passenger facilities at the country’s railway stations. This issue is of grave importance as thousands of people use the country’s railway stations for daily travel and rely on the facilities ...