Low sales, police harassment: It’s truly a double whammy for food delivery boys
Online delivery of food items falls under ‘essential service’, but there have been reports from many parts of the country that the police is beating these delivery boys up. They are already dealing with low sales as people are not ordering
Shivani Gupta
I am buying potatoes for Rs 22/kg, but selling one kg chicken for Rs 10: Poultry farmer
In the ninth part of the Gaon Connection series “FiasCorona”, read how the Coronavirus scare is hitting the poultry farmers hard and they are selling chicken at throwaway prices
Shivani Gupta
This startup aims to bring traditional cuisine back while making women self-sufficient
Nativ Chefs, an online platform, offers home-cooked meals to those who like traditional food. Besides, it provides employment to home chefs, mostly women, with good culinary skills
Shivani Gupta
The government allocates a budget of Rs 3,000 cr for the ambitious ‘Skill India’ programme
Considering the entrepreneurship skills of youngsters, FM has proposed an Investment Clearance Cell that will provide “end to end” facilitation & support at the Centre & state level
Shivani Gupta
Women, backward classes and manual scavengers … they got their share too, in this Budget
While the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ initiative has yielded tremendous results, more than six lakh Anganwadi workers have helped in improving the national nutritional status of women
Shivani Gupta
How often do you hear the buzzzzz now? Why can’t you find many beehives around?
Honey collection is a major source of livelihood for many. But changing farm practices, reducing forest cover, increasing use of pesticides and growing cell phone penetration are killing honeybees
Shivani Gupta
Will fireflies live only in our memories? Their population has been falling substantially
Many of us have cherished memories of spotting and catching fireflies that twinkled as if stars. But kids of today may not grow up with similar memories. That’s because fireflies are disappearing
Shivani Gupta
A teacher, a mom, and an ideal. Meet this primary school teacher, who wears multiple hats
This is the story of a primary school teacher but with the responsibility of a school with insufficient space and staff. She not only has to teach students, but also has to visit homes of students skipping school
Shivani Gupta
“What’s the point of development when our kids are going to die because of pollution?”
For development projects, like the construction of metros or bullet trains, authorities cut trees and then promise to compensate by planting saplings as many as three or four times for every tree cut. But how many of these saplings actually survive? The reality is hard to digest
Shivani Gupta
We wanted to study, but …
For young girls in villages, education is a luxury. But most of them are forced to discontinue their studies even before completing secondary education. Besides safety issues, there are many reasons behind their dropping out. In order to understand the roadblocks, Gaon Connection interviewed many girls in villages in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh