English Ground Report: Rs 8 a kilo for their garlic harvest, farmers in Madhya Pradesh prefer throwing it away Hoping to cash in on the soaring price of garlic at the time of sowing, farmers in Madhya Pradesh went...
English ‘We had no playground; our father cleared out a stretch along the river for us to practise javelin throws’ 21-year-old Rohit Yadav from a small village in Uttar Pradesh overcame straitened circumstances and lack of training equipment to become...
English On paper, tribal families in Guna dist have land pattas. In reality, they remain landless and impoverished. A Gaon Connection ground report After a 22-year long struggle for patta land, Rampyari Bai from Dhanoriya village got her 1.35 hectare land but had...
English Gaon Connection Impact: Mizapur’s ‘tanker’ village gets additional water supply; villagers relieved As part of its ‘Paani Yatra’ series, Gaon Connection recently published a ground report highlighting the plight of Lahuria Deh...
English For 20 years now, Lahuria Deh village has been dependent on water tankers; no one wants to wed their daughter here Hilly terrain, hard to extract groundwater and failed schemes make life miserable for the 3,000 odd villagers of Lahuria Deh...
English ‘Mahila Mates’ and Asmita app raise women’s participation under MGNREGA in Sonbhadra Launched a year ago to increase the participation of rural women in the national employment guarantee programme, the ‘Mahila Mate’...
English “Smoking one cigarette a day reduces lifespan by six years. We breathe in stone dust 24 hours a day” Whether it’s the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Vishwanath Corridor in Varanasi, or the monuments devoted to...
