Praja Foundation

Elphinstone Road stampede: Commuters, urban governance experts lament poor transport infrastructure

As can be seen from the reactions of several ordinary commuters, the stampede at Elphinstone Road was a tragedy waiting to happen.

Dengue, malaria deaths rise in Delhi despite growing health expenditure and claims of health revolution

Despite rising expenditure in the health sector, both communicable and non-communicable diseases continue to claim lives in rather big numbers, shows white paper on Delhi’s health sector released by Praja Foundation on Thursday.

Mumbai's health infrastructure remains dismal even as city struggles to contain dengue

Despite a massive annual health budget of Rs 3,312 crores for 2017-2018, the MCGM is not only struggling to contain the rise of dengue in the city, but has also failed to create health infrastructure to support the rising population

Delhi in dire need of a single-point public grievance redressal gateway: Praja Foundation report

There are seven civic services in Delhi that are provided by the Delhi government, MCD and the central government agencies simultaneously.

Mumbai Marathi school introduces spoken English classes to save itself from shutdown

As Marathi medium civic schools face an uncertain future with student enrollments falling by nearly 60 percent, the DS HIgh School in Sion may have found a way to prevent it

Mumbai frets about bad roads but corporators want them renamed

Even as the citizens of Mumbai seem to be most unhappy with the bad condition of roads as the municipal corporation received maximum number of complaints in this regard last year, renaming of roads still tops the list of questions raised by corporators in the civic body.