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In the line of fire, thousands of hectares of standing crops
Every year, fields of ready-to-harvest crops in Madhya Pradesh go up in flames as inadequate maintenance causes devastating electric fires, say the farmers. Only four months into the year, Satna district alone has reported 241 fires.
Sachin Tulsa Tripathi
Fields on fire: 1,500 fire incidents a day in Uttar Pradesh; heavy damage to standing wheat crop
In cases of crop fires, the most common reasons include broken power cables, electricity supply wires, tractor sparks, fire from stoves, careless smoking, and fireworks — and these fires cost dearly to the farmers whose livelihoods depend on these crops.
Arvind Shukla
Budget 2021-22: Crores declared for sugar mills, but what about farmers’ money withheld by them?
Sugar mills across the country have withheld payments running into crores to sugarcane farmers. The budget for 2021-22 has nothing to offer relief to these farmers.
Mithilesh Dhar Dubey
Union Budget 2021: Funds to tackle air pollution slashed by half. About 1.69 million people annually die in India due to air pollution
In the last Budget 2020, a sum of Rs 4,400 crore was allocated towards controlling air pollution, but this largely remained unutilised. In the Budget 2021-22, the allocation has been reduced to Rs 2,217 crore, a drop of 50 per cent.
Nidhi Jamwal
Yield from the floodplains: A community of migrant seasonal farmers, the ‘Palaziye’ raise summer vegetables annually on river beds
The Palaziye walk the talk as they live close to the land and practise eco-friendly measures to grow seasonal vegetables on the river beds.
Manoj Misra
Farmers Protest: What exactly are the farmers agitating about? What are they demanding from the government?
Today is the third day of the farmers’ agitation. A large number of farmers have reached the Nirankari maidan in Delhi’s Burari while some farmers are still camped on the Haryana-Delhi border. What are then the demands of these farmers?
Gaon Connection
Choked: Hari Phuljhari, a documentary film, analyses air pollution through the firecracker ban in Delhi
A 2018 Supreme Court ruling regulated the bursting of firecrackers in Delhi. But the very same year, 5 million firecrackers were set off. The documentary Hari Phuljhari by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy analyses the ground reality and public perception.
Subha J Rao
Can the Centre’s new ordinance on air pollution clean up NCR-Delhi’s air? Experts’ opinion divided.
Whereas some have welcomed the new commission on air pollution with representatives from different states and ministries, others have termed it a “bureaucratic vessel” or a ‘Civil Servants Club’.
Nidhi Jamwal
Baoris, Bijli Swaraj and Biomass Plants: How the states are responding to climate change
From reviving water bodies to carbon neutral villages and gram panchayats, several states in India are responding to climate change. But is that enough?
Shivani Gupta
The National Clean Air Programme may fail to clean up the toxic air
The Indian government has drawn up an ambitious plan to clean up the polluted air of 122 cities. But, in the absence of a scientific monitoring and reporting mechanism, pollution reduction targets may remain only on paper