English Bihar: ‘We’re being stripped of our powers’ — Mukhiyas Mahapanchayat in Patna on Gandhi Jayanti More than 8,000 mukhiyas are set to march to Patna on October 2 to demand redressal of their grievances, and...
English ASHA workers in Bihar on an indefinite strike for close to a month. Here are their demands Due to the strike by 100,000 ASHAs, vaccination activities in the state are affected, and several primary healthcare centres in...
English Securing their future with banana yarn Six rural women from Vaishali district in Bihar have set up the state’s first FPO, with support of Jeevika, where...
English 70-yo Ghanshyam Yadav walked 200 kms to keep his cattle alive; it’s an annual affair for farmers in south Bihar Thousands of cattle rearers in parched south Bihar are forced to migrate hundreds of kilometres to the northern districts along...
English Firefighting in Rural Bihar Farmers lose standing crops, homes and livestock to fires caused by stubble burning, short circuits and electricity theft. Rising temperatures...
English Libraries of Opportunities in Bihar There are community libraries functioning in 45 blocks in small towns and villages in Bihar. Jeevika, an initiative of the...
English A former IAS officer creates level playing fields for underprivileged civil service aspirants Having taken voluntary retirement from the Indian Administrative Service, Arun Kumar provides free coaching to civil service aspirants at the...
English Rural libraries in Kishanganj, Bihar spread education among poor children Known as the most backward and poor district of Bihar, Kishanganj is coming out of the shadows as a library...
English Financial frauds rise in rural India as the internet moves deeper into villages The internet has penetrated deep into the Indian hinterland and of the 646 million active internet users, 352 million are...
English The makhanas of Bihar get a GI tag, but a sudden price crash leaves the farmers in a fix Three months ago, in August 2022, fox nuts from Mithilanchal region of Bihar earned the coveted Geographical Indication (GI) tag....
