Ramanuj Mitra

Program Officer, CRB

Sustainable dyeing techniques– preventing water pollution

Dyeing processes are one of the most polluting unit operations in the textile industry. News articles are rampant in the media, showing rivers and streams near textile manufacturing hubs flowing with coloured water; untreated and colourised water from dyeing units cause such disastrous changes in the water bodies. Overloaded common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) and

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The migrant labour crisis in the face of Covid-19: causes and mitigation

Contrary to a recent saying, “Coronavirus impacts everyone equally, doesn’t discriminate between the rich and the poor”, the poor in India – especially the urban poor has been most adversely affected and are battling for survival. Ever since the lockdown hit on 25th March 2020 in India, millions have lost their jobs—unemployment rate stood at

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