[ad_1] Sugarcane cultivation across parts of India’s Deccan Plateau is becoming more productive. But, it is also becoming more vulnerable to climate variability, a new long-term study finds. Sugarcane has long shaped India’s rural economy. It powers sugar mills, supports ethanol and bioenergy production, and sustains millions of farmers. But the crop is also at … Read more
[ad_1] Employment generated under the government’s new rural job guarantee scheme fell by nearly half in July, the first month since it replaced the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, The Indian Express reported on Monday. Only 7.6 crore person-days were generated under the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin Act, or … Read more
[ad_1] ASHA workers and Anganwadi didis have become the face of governance (PTI images) Where India’s development begins It is barely eight in the morning when Vimla Kumari begins what has become a familiar routine. Her household chores are complete, breakfast has been served, and her children have left for school. Slinging a cloth bag … Read more
[ad_1] For much of her college life in West Bengal’s Midnapore city, Pujarini Pradhan felt invisible. “If you ask people in my college, they probably won’t remember me,” she said. Unlike the girls from “big families” of the city, Pradhan was from a village in East Midnapore. “I used to go wearing a salwar suit, … Read more
[ad_1] For more than ten years, Lawrence Kandulna was a migrant worker in Pune. A native of Kulhai village, in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, Lawrence worked as a gardener in a nursery in the city and returned home for just a few months in the year, during which he would grow paddy and harvest it. Four … Read more