The Ujas campaign in Rajasthan has electrified 839 of the 910 government schools in the district in the space of six months. The people who funded 80% of the cost of electrification, and a district magistrate who helmed the initiative, made this happen.
To revive the tourism sector affected by the pandemic, Uttarakhand is promoting rural tourism to generate employment and provide better expedition facilities. Dilip Jawalkar, tourism secretary of the state, informed this during the third India Tourism Mart.
In summer, Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is dry and brown, but not Bharatpur village. A human-made forest by a small hill outside the village is lush with greenery. This is the result of years of dedicated work by Bhaiyaram Yadav.
Goat rearing in Maharashtra gets a fillip as a goat bank in Akola district offers a unique scheme where people can borrow a pregnant goat from a bank and repay the loan in kind with four baby goats, within 40 months.
In remote pockets of Uttarakhand and Tamil Nadu, community radios provide two-way communication and get people talking. These community radios could be invaluable in saving lives in times of distress, such as the recent Uttarakhand flash floods. A Gaon Connection report on World Radio Day.
An employee of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, and an engineer from Srinagar make sanitary napkins accessible to the poor and underprivileged women in Kashmir.
Community forest resource rights under the Forest Rights Act helped Rahu and Payvihir villages earn money. Banking on this income, they helped villagers financially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Rahu, 175 homes received Rs 10,000 each and 20 villagers got interest-free loans in Payvihir.
Chutni Mahato, survived a witch-hunt, and set about helping others like her who were accused of being witches. Between 2016 and 2019, 79 people were killed in Jharkhand on suspicions of practising witchcraft.
Ecologists, students, corporates and individuals in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris, pitch in to restore wetlands and grasslands with native species of grass, shrubs and sholas that have all but disappeared.
In the Garhwal and Kumaon regions of Uttarakhand, winter brings with it a deliciously unique cuisine. Herbs from the upper reaches of the Himalayan state, and a rich haul of locally grown beans, tubers, citrus fruits and sun dried vegetables, provide sustenance, nutrition and warmth in the cold months to the mountain people.