Financial support for housing and health under the Beedi Workers Welfare Organisation has not been coming in, complain beedi workers, who have a paltry earning and a hoard of health problems. A ground report.

Birsa Harit Gram Yojana, launched in 2020 as a rural employment scheme, in convergence with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, is providing double benefits to farmers who are cultivating their fallow lands and also earning wages.

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.

Hundreds of anganwadi workers protested in Delhi for 38 days and called it off when the Delhi government invoked the law refraining protests for the workers occupied in essential services. Upon returning to their centres, about 500 workers found that they had been fired. The anganwadi workers have now moved Delhi High Court against the state government's termination of their services. Details here.

A research report prepared by the Foundation of Agrarian Studies highlighted that while the share of central government expenditure was reduced, there was an increase in the share of state government expenditure. It also found that the government expenditure on agriculture as a share of gross value added in agriculture has declined considerably in the past decade. Details here.

BP and Diabetes treatment: A new study says improved education, standardization of testing as well as follow up of hypertension and diabetes after childbirth are needed in Indian rural areas

From having to depend on their brothers and husbands for the expenses incurred in enjoying festivities, about 9,000 women in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district are now not only able to relish the festivities on their own expense but are also able to contribute to the household incomes.

In the many remote tribal villages of Bankura district in West Bengal, ASHA workers are the sole healthcare providers. These frontline workers go far beyond the call of duty to ensure timely medical care. Gaon Connection caught up with these custodians of rural healthcare.

Anganwadi centres in Haryana and Delhi are shut for the past almost three months and one month, respectively. This has affected the supply of dry rations to hundreds of thousand under-6 children enrolled with these early childcare centres. Gaon Connection visited these locked up centres and here is what parents and the protesting anganwadi workers had to say. A ground report.

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