Reportage The Central government’s Rs 1.70 lakh crore relief package for the poor cuts no ice Members of the Right To Food Campaign and organisations working with informal sector workers demand wider measures to support the...
Reportage A humanitarian crisis begins to unfold as India goes under a ‘complete lockdown’ For the millions of migrant workers and daily wagers stranded on the roads amid the ‘lockdown’, with no shelter or...
Reportage We have clapped for them. Now let us get them what they critically need to fight Corona Doctors, health workers and frontline staff are at the highest risk as they battle the COVID-19 pandemic. We must give...
Reportage Communities most vulnerable to climate change have the lowest access to clean water The government has committed to provide piped water to every household by 2024. But climate crisis threatens the viability of...
Reportage For anganwadis, Corona shutdown could mean safety from disease, not from hunger The anganwadi centres and schools are shut. This stretches the nutrition needs of 158 million under-six kids and over 59...
Reportage “Social distancing”: A call that ignores ground realities of millions of Indians Gaon Connection spoke with public health experts and epidemiologists to understand how ‘social distancing’ would work, or not work, in...
Reportage There’s poison on the plate. But, should only farmers be blamed for this mess? Not really In 2010, after samples of fruits and vegetables showed large-scale food contamination, the Delhi High Court ordered an inquiry. Public...
Reportage Rapid urbanization, climate change increasing water stress in the Hindu Kush Himalayas By 2050, more than 50 per cent population in the Hindu Kush Himalayas will live in hill cities. Rapid urbanization...
Reportage Only 30% of Guwahati residents have municipal piped water supply The rest depend on borewells/tubewells or private water tankers to meet their water needs. Excessive exploitation of groundwater is leading...
Video Shows India is fighting a critical battle to save the Ganga — a river that’s a lifeline for hundreds of millions The governments have been promising citizens a clean Ganga since 1986, and thousands of crores of rupees have already been...
