Turning environmental challenges into recoverable value streams.

30 Jan 2026 CW Team

The lack of scalable, scientific solutions capable of handling legacy waste and complex urban waste streams led to the establishment of Blue Planet Environmental Solutions. In conversation with CW, Prashant Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, shares the company’s journey from a startup to a city-scale environmental infrastructure player, detailing large municipal projects, decades-old legacy waste remediation, land recovery outcomes and its expanding circular economy footprint.

How has the vision of Blue Planet Environmental Solutions evolved?

Blue Planet was founded to address a fundamental gap in India’s waste management ecosystem. Historically, waste was treated as a downstream problem rather than an environmental and land-use challenge...

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Infrastructure Transport

30 Jan 2026

India's Highway Crisis!

Massive spending, inflated metrics, systemic delays and deep-rooted corruption now threaten the credibility of India’s highway expansion, observes LT GEN RAJEEV CHAUDHRY (Retd), former DG Border Roads.India is spending more on national highways than ever before. With Rs 2.72 lakh crore earmarked for FY 2025–26 and ambitious targets under the Amrit Kaal vision, the narrative is one of speed, scale and transformation. Yet, beneath the headline numbers lies an uncomfortable realit..

Audit: Time to Elevate

The year 2026 got off to a sorry start for the elevator industry with a 31-year-old security guard crushed to death when a lift collapsed on him in a Mulund East (Mumbai) housing society, and two boys, aged 11, grievously injured by falling into a lift duct when the third floor lift door in their Goregaon (Mumbai) building gave way. Faulty door-lock wiring and poor maintenance by the vendor are most probably behind these tragic accidents.No month goes by without a fatal elevator accident in some city across India. CW asks why?To read the full story Click Here ..

Mumbai's Redevelopment

Mumbai’s redevelopment challenge has crossed the threshold from market-led opportunity to urban compulsion. The welcome address at the Mumbai Redevelopment summit framed the issue in unambiguous terms: the city’s housing stock is ageing faster than its delivery mechanisms can respond, and redevelopment has become the primary – if not the only – pathway to renew urban living conditions within severe land constraints.With tens of thousands of buildings over 30 years old and a significant portion far older, redevelopment today sits at the intersection of safety, infrastruc..