By Srinivas Chokkakula on August 24th 2025
India’s Namami Gange shows how agile policies and institutions can accelerate river rejuvenation, offering lessons for all interstate rivers. View Publication
By Srinivas Chokkakula on July 11th 2025
The piece argues that NGP can potentially leverage Delhi’s Yamuna cleaning project towards the broader goal of rejuvenating India’s rivers View Publication
By Srinivas Chokkakula on May 17th 2025
Pakistan’s ultimately self-defeating projects of subterfuge and terrorism have squandered the goodwill and friendship upon which treaty was founded. Putting IWT in abeyance gives India time and means to build infrastructure to affect flows substantively and gain decisive leverage. View Publication
By Srinivas Chokkakula on April 16th 2025
Prayagraj hosted more than 60 crore pilgrims and visitors over a span of 45 days during the Maha Kumbh, according to the estimates of the Uttar Pradesh government. The world has witnessed the religious and spiritual fervour that moved the entire nation while it celebrated its reverence for the river goddess Ganga. Yet, the event […]
By Srinivas Chokkakula on December 19th 2024
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has recently called for a comprehensive water policy for Andhra Pradesh while reviewing the water resources development. The idea of such a policy must be welcomed. The fledgling state of Andhra Pradesh requires, at any rate, a territorial re-imagining of its water futures especially given the multiple challenges it confronts […]
By Srinivas Chokkakula on July 18th 2024
This Handbook is a response to the rapid growth of environmental and natural resources law over the past few decades in India. The discipline is now a distinct field of research and teaching.
By Srinivas Chokkakula on May 8th 2024
India boasts of a vast freshwater resource network (rivers, wetlands, and groundwater), which has unique ecological, social and economic values associated with it. Despite their importance for both people and biodiversity, its freshwater ecosystems (FWEs) are heavily impacted through multiple factors such as pollution, overexploitation, habitat loss/modification and climate change. India is also among the […]
By Srinivas Chokkakula on October 5th 2023
The Cauvery dispute has flared up again, the first time after 2018 when the Supreme Court (SC) re-adjudicated the dispute after a tribunal gave its award.
By Srinivas Chokkakula on July 3rd 2023
There is a renewed focus on the concept of statutory master planning in urban governance, but its rationale remains dated, and newer sensibilities stand unaccommodated. As town planners grapple with financial challenges, close to 65% of India’s urban settlements lack master plans, and the approach is mostly ad hoc. This begs the question: Are master […]
By Srinivas Chokkakula on January 24th 2023
The edited volume is a collection of essays and cases on water federalism. The contributors are a well-known group of academics, practitioners, and civil society actors.