English Training in cultivation and animal husbandry empowers Birhor tribal women in Jharkhand Birhor tribe is one of the eight particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) in Jharkhand that has remained trapped in poverty...
English Once migrant labourers at brick kilns, women in Lohardaga now farm their land and rear pigs After years of moving from place to place looking for an income, women in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand find empowerment...
English Gaon Connection Impact: District admn seeks report on Birsa Munda’s heritage school; promises action Gaon Connection’s recent report on the sorry state of the Lutheran Middle School in Chaibasa where Jharkhand’s hero Birsa Munda...
English The school in Jharkhand, where Birsa Munda studied, is today in dire straits On Jharkhand day today, the tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda is remembered with pride. But the school he went to...
English Rajasthan: Digging ponds to capture rainwater helps Dholpur farmers cultivate wheat for the first time A state government scheme in Rajasthan to encourage rainwater harvesting is bearing fruit as for the first time, the farmers...
English Rajasthan: From being confined in purdah indoors, women in Dholpur step out to set up small businesses Gathering together under village organisations and federations, the women from the villages of Dholpur in Rajasthan, find financial independence, and...
English GC Impact: Shakti App of Jharkhand Police, which was not functioning, has now been fixed Last month, on September 23, Gaon Connection published a story on how the Shakti app for women’s safety was not...
English Jharkhand Police’s Shakti app for women safety doesn’t work; call 100 or 112, says police Recently, a 16-year-old girl from Dumka, was set on fire by her stalker and killed. A couple of days later,...
English Advanced machinery and equipment transform farming and fishing in Satara, Maharashtra Timely intervention by way of mechanisation and updated equipment help farmers and fishers up their yield and income in Satara,...
English Mediating between villagers and an elephant herd, forest guard Jasbin Salker Aind sacrificed his life Between 2019-20 and 2021-22, at least 1,578 people have died of elephant attacks in the country. Odisha tops the list...
