Health Maharashtra launches door-to-door search for TB patients; mine and construction workers in rural areas to be in focus To identify tuberculosis patients, the state government has launched a 10-day long search campaign amongst high risk groups such as...
NEWS ETC Chhattisgarh’s ‘mitanins’ take to the streets demanding their unpaid COVID19 incentives ASHA workers in Chhattisgarh’s Korea district complain that many of them have not been paid the COVID19 incentives they were...
OUR HEROES I may have received Padma Shri but I will always be a small farmer: ‘Seed Mother’ Rahibai Popere tells Gaon Connection Sixty-one-year old tribal farmer from Maharashtra was conferred India’s fourth-highest civilian award yesterday at the Padma Shri awards ceremony held...
NEWS ETC Will this Diwali brighten up Khushahalganj, a potters’ village, reeling under losses for over a year now? While sales have picked up in urban centres during the festival season, potters’ community that supplies diyas, clay idols and...
Reportage From a debt-ridden tomato farmer to a profit-making cowpea cultivator, Bharathamma Poreddy is an inspiration to many Tomato farmers in Andhra Pradesh, the largest tomato producing state in the country, are switching to polycropping methods by cultivating...
Changemakers Graphic designing classes and virtual learning – a village school is breaking stereotypes of rural education As part of a novel initiative, Bharatiya Gramin Vidyalaya, about 40 kilometres from Lucknow, has set up a skill centre...
Governance ‘Serious’ levels of hunger in India, shows Global Hunger Index; govt terms the methodology ‘unscientific’ Recently released Global Hunger Index report paints a grim picture of the hunger crisis in India. Of 116 countries, India...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Using indigenous seeds to sustain livelihoods, fight climate change and pay off loans A tribal farmer from Madhya Pradesh has been conserving indigenous seeds for nearly four decades. These seeds require less water,...
Reportage More than half under-5 kids in Lakhimpur Kheri stunted; groundwater heavily contaminated with arsenic Lakhimpur Kheri, also known as mini-Punjab of Uttar Pradesh, is a new flashpoint in India’s most populous state that goes...
Reportage Has Ashish Mishra, accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, escaped to Nepal? Ashish Mishra aka ‘Monu bhaiya’, son of the Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Mishra, has skipped the...
