Educated lawmakers
There is a pressing need to prescribe minimum educational qualifications for law makers, says Srijita Majumder
There is a pressing need to prescribe minimum educational qualifications for law makers, says Srijita Majumder
More research is warranted towards measuring the rebound effect in India to ensure that energy efficiency fulfills its goal of achieving more with less energy. Achieving SDG-7 of access to clean and affordable energy will be difficult if we only focus on increasing energy production rather than the proper transmission and distribution and ensuring behavioral changes to save energy at the end-user level.
Policy-making is about ensuring that policy measures impact people favourably or at least do not impact the economically or otherwise handicapped unfavourably, which is a principle that is observed in its absence. Matters get worse under straitened conditions
One of the foundational principles of Sherlock Holmes’ Science of Deduction can be summarised in the quote: “It is a…