With foot and mouth disease vaccination stalled for almost a year, farmers in UP losing their milch cattle
It’s been almost a year and districts in Uttar Pradesh are yet to receive their share of the vaccine doses for the foot and mouth disease (FMD), commonly known as ‘muh paka’ and ‘khur paka’, which affects cattle. The disease outbreak has been reported from some districts and farmers are losing their cattle too.
Mohit Shukla
An integrated farming model promises monthly earning of Rs 25,000 from an acre of land
The agriculture department of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh has developed an integrated farming system to raise the incomes of small and marginal farmers. By adopting poultry and fish farming, along with cultivating crops, farmers can earn up to Rs 25,000 per month from an acre of land.
Mohit Shukla
A sugar mill in Sitapur, UP is in the eye of the storm for damaging farmlands and crops
A sugar factory in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh is allegedly causing misery in a neighbouring village by discharging effluents into the open. Villagers claim their land is turning infertile and crop produce is reducing too. Both factory administration and pollution control board officials deny allegations.
Mohit Shukla
Amid tight security and a tense atmosphere, UP block panchayat chief polls to be held tomorrow
Yesterday, July 8, violent attacks and rioting were reported from various districts of Uttar Pradesh as candidates stepped out to file their nominations for the block panchayat polls. Six police officials have been suspended and FIRs filed, but tension looms large.
Mohit Shukla
Severely malnourished under-5 children consumed by hunger in the pandemic
Almost 43% of under the age of six kids in the country, suffering from severe acute malnutrition, are in Uttar Pradesh. COVID pandemic, loss of livelihoods, overburdened healthcare system and disrupted anganwadi services have made matters worse in the state. A Gaon Connection report.
Mohit Shukla
Rural women in Uttar Pradesh spin a banana yarn and earn themselves economic independence
A novel initiative of the Lakhimpur Kheri district administration in Uttar Pradesh is
bringing financial freedom to rural women by training them to extract fibre from discarded banana stems. Their yarn is going places.
Mohit Shukla
“I never became a daroga, but I am doing my bit to keep people safe”
Rakesh Kumar Valmiki, a sanitation worker, wanted to be a daroga (policeman) and protect his fellow citizens, but he became a safai karamchari instead, and, in the pandemic, has kept them safe from disease.
Mohit Shukla
“I have to wait for nine months to be paid Rs 600 incentive for one delivery”
Meena Devi has looked after the well being of her fellow villagers in Kachura, Uttar Pradesh, for 15 years as an ASHA worker. No two days of work have ever been the same, she said. And COVID19 duties have presented her with their own special challenges.
Mohit Shukla
“I have been digging graves morning to night… the work never ends”
Munna, a grave digger in Tarinpur, in Sitapur district, Uttar Pradesh, says he has been digging graves for the past thirty years but has never seen this number of dead in such a short span of time.
Mohit Shukla
Moved by a migrant worker’s story in Gaon Connection, a 19-year-old student raises Rs 42,000
Anshika Jhamb came across the story of Suresh Kumar, an auto-rickshaw driver, who recently drove over 1,000 kilometres from Delhi to Bihar to escape the Delhi lockdown. She crowdfunded to help the migrant worker repay his debts and start afresh.