increasingly wrestling with how to improve the prevention and management of unwanted forest fires. India is not alone in facing …Fire has been a part of India's landscape since time immemorial and can play a vital role in healthy forests, recycling … to burning on an annual or semi-annual basis. As these fires are no longer beneficial to forest health, India is …

The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past …

undertaken by the World Bank to review the development of e-mobility in India, identify remaining challenges and mitigation … measures to support India's electric mobility vision. This report presents the findings of the analysis and lays out a set of …

Chennai, a city on the southeastern coast of India and the state capital of Tamil Nadu, has one of the world's fastest …-growing economies. Chennai is the automotive hub for India and is also home to several other industries ranging from petrochemicals to … Economy and Resilience (WICER) system. This case study focuses on the experience of Chennai in India …

The Country Opinion Survey in India assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in India perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in India on 1) their views regarding the …

localpoverty, ecosystem management and climate changemitigation. Being able to produce enough biomass and protein for the growing …

The World Bank has been supporting the Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE)program for India through its … support to the flagship program of the Government of India, theSarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The Bank's ongoing support to SSA …