Part I Sustainable Energy and Transportation Technologies -- Introduction: Sustainable utilization of available energy sources for meeting development objectives -- Shifting Focus from Supply to Demand - The Changing Face of Transportation towards Sustainability -- Sustainable transport solutions for the concept of Smart City -- Role of Electric Vehicles in Future Road Transport -- Supplementing the Energy Need of Diesel Engines in Indian Transport and Power Sectors -- Coal Energy Sustainability in India -- Part II Sustainable Energy Policies -- Investments in Clean Energy in South Asia: Visiting barriers and gaps from the perspective of policies and politics -- Renewable Energy Policies in India: A State-level Analysis -- Improving the sustainability of Waste Water Treatment through Solar Assisted Multiple Effect Evaporators -- Making Indian Power Sector Low Carbon: Opportunities and Policy Challenges -- Waste Heat Recovery Policy -- Part III Enactment of Sustainable Energy -- Role of biomass for distributed energy solution in India -- Biomass based distributed energy systems: opportunities and challenges -- Individual Consumption and Its Effects on Carbon Emissions: A Comparison of Developed and Developing Countries -- A Decomposition Analysis of the Manufacturing Sector of the Eastern States of India, 2010-15.