By Rakhi Agarwal
A primary school teacher from Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district recalls the times when her crusade against a highly chaotic social environment helped her reform a school. Not only did she succeed in making the school functional but also helped the students in excelling at academics. The school also witnessed a sharp spike in the attendance of the students.
A primary school teacher from Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district recalls the times when her crusade against a highly chaotic social environment helped her reform a school. Not only did she succeed in making the school functional but also helped the students in excelling at academics. The school also witnessed a sharp spike in the attendance of the students.
By Ranvijay Singh
In a review meeting, the CM expressed his displeasure and directed the principal secretary to do something about the bad roads
In a review meeting, the CM expressed his displeasure and directed the principal secretary to do something about the bad roads
By Nidhi Jamwal
The measure of rising heat in the country isn’t just colour coded heat stress maps or a bumper sale of air-conditioners. There is a human face to it and that face is often of a migrant worker, or a daily wage farm labourer. If you look closer, many of those faces belong to rural women.
The measure of rising heat in the country isn’t just colour coded heat stress maps or a bumper sale of air-conditioners. There is a human face to it and that face is often of a migrant worker, or a daily wage farm labourer. If you look closer, many of those faces belong to rural women.
By Satish Malviya
Efforts by a women-led group have helped revive the traditional millet varieties of Kodo and Kutki in Madhya Pradesh. Today, as many as 18,000 rural women in the Dindori district are earning better incomes by cultivating these millets and processing them into marketable products like cookies, breakfast cereals, biscuits, snacks, and sweets.
Efforts by a women-led group have helped revive the traditional millet varieties of Kodo and Kutki in Madhya Pradesh. Today, as many as 18,000 rural women in the Dindori district are earning better incomes by cultivating these millets and processing them into marketable products like cookies, breakfast cereals, biscuits, snacks, and sweets.
By Gaon Connection
Efforts by a women-led group have helped revive the traditional millet varieties of Kodo and Kutki in Madhya Pradesh. Today, as many as 18,000 rural women in the Dindori district are earning better incomes by cultivating these millets and processing them into marketable products like cookies, breakfast cereals, biscuits, snacks, and sweets.
Efforts by a women-led group have helped revive the traditional millet varieties of Kodo and Kutki in Madhya Pradesh. Today, as many as 18,000 rural women in the Dindori district are earning better incomes by cultivating these millets and processing them into marketable products like cookies, breakfast cereals, biscuits, snacks, and sweets.
By Nidhi Jamwal
There is a need to reinvent the PM-KUSUM scheme by bringing in equity and gender into India’s ambitious plan to solarise the agriculture sector. Solar irrigation pump sets must enable farmers to earn by selling 60-70 per cent of their solar generation.
There is a need to reinvent the PM-KUSUM scheme by bringing in equity and gender into India’s ambitious plan to solarise the agriculture sector. Solar irrigation pump sets must enable farmers to earn by selling 60-70 per cent of their solar generation.
By Manvendra Singh
Plastic waste generation is on the rise in the country but there is no separate data on the quantity of such waste generation in rural India. Single-use plastics have invaded the villages where there are no waste management systems in place. For instance, in West Bengal, Assam, Punjab and Bihar, the percentage of villages that have mechanisms to manage solid waste are 0.82%, 1.08%, 1.67% and 1.97%, respectively.
Plastic waste generation is on the rise in the country but there is no separate data on the quantity of such waste generation in rural India. Single-use plastics have invaded the villages where there are no waste management systems in place. For instance, in West Bengal, Assam, Punjab and Bihar, the percentage of villages that have mechanisms to manage solid waste are 0.82%, 1.08%, 1.67% and 1.97%, respectively.
By गाँव कनेक्शन
The free-to-download book with 75 stories of climate change from rural India is being released tomorrow, December 2, when the world’s most important global meet to address climate change — COP 28 — is underway in Dubai.
The free-to-download book with 75 stories of climate change from rural India is being released tomorrow, December 2, when the world’s most important global meet to address climate change — COP 28 — is underway in Dubai.
By Nihira
The estimated female labour force participation rate in India has plummeted to 19 per cent compared to 32 per cent in 2005. Interventions by the Good Business Lab, create a support system for rural women to help them enter the job market.
The estimated female labour force participation rate in India has plummeted to 19 per cent compared to 32 per cent in 2005. Interventions by the Good Business Lab, create a support system for rural women to help them enter the job market.
By गाँव कनेक्शन
The 245-page book has 75 stories of climate change from rural India. It is available for a free download from Gaon Connection’s website.
The 245-page book has 75 stories of climate change from rural India. It is available for a free download from Gaon Connection’s website.