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A reflection on multi-faceted droughts in Bundelkhand region
Teaser: Alternatives have to be re-adapted to the understanding of droughts in the wake of climate change.Drought conditions are not new to Bundelkhand. The acute situation now is a convergence of...
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Surviving in uncertainty
Teaser: Gram Vikas stepped up to ensure access to adequate food and to strengthen dignified income-earning opportunities for the most vulnerable households. Uncertainty - the pervasive feeling that all...
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Tank desiltation scheme in Maharashtra: Policy concerns and way forward
Teaser: Maharashtra has been implementing the Gaalmukt Dharan, Gaalyukt Shivar Yojana (GDGS) scheme since 2017. How has it fared and what needs to be done to improve it further?Tank systems of...
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Green court slams centre over groundwater withdrawal in dry areas
Teaser: Policy matters this weekNGT slams centre over groundwater extraction in dry areasDispleased over the Centre's submission that restriction on groundwater extraction in over-exploited, critical...
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Bihar and northeast India reel under floods, Assam worst hit
Teaser: News this weekFlood batters three northeast states, Assam worst affectedAccording to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, over 24.19 lakh people from 2,323 villages and localities...
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NREGA tracker looks at the schemes’ performance
Teaser: NREGA should move towards becoming an open-ended entitlement that allows every individual to work for at least 200 days, as per PAEG.As per the findings of an NREGA tracker launched by the...
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Money, migration and missing capital: The case of Uttarakhand
Teaser: In times of heightened interest in migration and migrants, a lecture deals with key issues underpinning it.Uttarakhand’s rural areas are marked by massive outflux of people and it is believed...
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Market linkage could ensure higher returns for farm produce
Teaser: A study finds out gaps in the way farmer producer organisations are handling their operations and the available infrastructure.A recent national study on farmer producer’s organisations (FPOs)...
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Banking on rainwater harvesting
Teaser: National Water Mission’s campaign aims at creating rainwater harvesting structures in various parts of India.National Water Mission’s (NWM) has launched a campaign ‘Catch the rain’ on a pan...
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Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
Teaser: Millions of people's homes were swept away and farmlands destroyed during cyclone Amphan in Sunderbans. The Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses...
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Think, before you have your cup of tea!
Teaser: Women workers from tea plantations in India are overworked and underpaid. Voiceless, without any rights at the workplace, and their health compromised, they continue to suffer in silence. India...
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Nashik civic body frees Godavari using riverfront development funds
Teaser: News this weekA civic body frees a river instead of concretising it, for the first timeUnder the Centre’s ‘Smart Cities’ mission, funds were allocated to the Nashik Municipal Corporation for...
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Agriculture and food security challenges amid Covid-19
Teaser: The pandemic has bared our vulnerabilities and shaken our collective consciousness to focus on agriculture and rural economy.India has seen large scale rural-urban migration of people trying to...
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The fast disappearing glaciers of Kashmir
Teaser: The glaciers located in the Kashmir Himalayas are melting at rapid rates posing a threat to water security in the region!. How is Kashmir coping?Kashmir’s glaciers are melting at frightening...
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Farm ponds need pondering
Teaser: While farm ponds have often been depicted as magic wands to deal with water scarcity, experiences in Maharashtra show otherwise.Agriculture and inefficient water use in IndiaThe agricultural...
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19
Teaser: The pandemic affects rural women disproportionately with damaging impacts on their employment, health and security. COVID-19 has unleashed one of the greatest human tragedies of the...
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Who is the thirstiest of them all?
Teaser: A study evaluating the water use efficiency of sugarcane, curry banana and paddy among borewell irrigating farmers finds paddy to be the most inefficient and thirstiest of the three....
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Overexploitation of groundwater highest in Punjab: Government
Teaser: News this weekPunjab no.1 in overexploitation of groundwater According to the information placed by the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in the ongoing...
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Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan a low impact, high expenditure scheme: CAG
Teaser: Policy matters this weekJalyukt Shivar Abhiyan had a low impact in making Maharashtra drought free: CAGSlamming the implementation of the multi-crore Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan, the Comptroller and...
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Forests, the fast disappearing treasure troves of forest dwellers
Teaser: Rapidly disappearing forests are not only a threat to the biodiversity, but spell death knell for the livelihoods of forest dwellers who depend on them for food and survival.Forests are...
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