The CM Rise Schools will be equipped with modern libraries, laboratories, playgrounds, and smart classes. These facilities are expected to bring government schools in the state at par with private schools.

Good news from the adivasi-dominated Panna district where Aramganj gram panchayat has elected a woman sarpanch and 17 women panchs as representatives for the rural administration. In order to felicitate the panchayat for its achievement, the state government will reward it with Rs 1,500,000 which will be utilised for the welfare of the rural residents. Details here.

Extremely heavy rainfall has led to massive floods in Madhya Pradesh. More than a thousand villages in five districts are flood-hit. Hundreds of thousand people have lost their homes, belongings, stored food grains and crops in the field. A ground report from marooned villages in Vidisha district.

This year, “wonder crop” soybean has given farmers in Madhya Pradesh sleepless nights. A few months back, when drought-like conditions prevailed, panicked farmers spent money from their pockets to buy water. Now heavy rainfall has damaged 80 per cent of their crop

The ambitious scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for checking the soil from the field is facing glitches. The concerned officials send reports to farmers without even collecting samples. Not just this, a single field gets multiple and varied reports