Assam

Climate change: A look through a gender lens

Women are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Amita Bhaduri posted 3 months 1 week ago

Climate change vulnerability is a multi-layered and multi-faceted phenomenon. “It’s a justice issue determined by both biophysical and socio-economic factors.

The gendered vulnerabilities due to climate change need to be well-recognized. (Image: Justin Kernoghan, Trocaire, Wikimedia Commons)

Precipitation data

(not verified) posted 4 months 1 week ago

Please help us in getting the long term rainfall data for the Assam districts.

Think, before you have your cup of tea!

Women workers from tea plantations in India are overworked and underpaid. Voiceless, without any rights at the workplace, and their health compromised, they continue to suffer in silence. Aarti Kelkar Khambete posted 7 months 4 weeks ago

India is the second largest tea producer in the world, with production at 1.2 million metric tons

Women workers at a tea plantation in Assam (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Groundwater extraction: NGT gets strict with commercial entities

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 8 months ago

NGT bans granting general permissions for groundwater extraction to commercial entities

NGT gets strict with commercial entities (Source: IWP Flickr album)

Interspecies love in a flood-ravaged Assam village

Systems of co-existence can help in mitigating the human-elephant conflict in the region. Amita Bhaduri posted 8 months 1 week ago

Salmora in Majuli river island in Assam is not any ordinary village. Located on the southeastern corner of the island, surrounded by the mighty Brahmaputra on three sides, this village is remarkable in many ways.

Potters' families belonging to Kumar community of the village make earthen pots (Image: Mitul Baruah)

Bihar and northeast India reel under floods, Assam worst hit

News this week Swati Bansal posted 8 months 3 weeks ago

Flood batters three northeast states, Assam worst affected

People take a boat to cross the flood-ravaged Brahmaputra (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Environmentalists voice concerns against the draft EIA notification 2020

Policy matters this week Swati Bansal posted 9 months 1 week ago

Draft EIA notification 2020 attracts criticism from experts

Work in progress in coal mines in Jharsuguda (Image source: IWP Flickr album)

Flood batters Assam, over 16 lakh people hit

News this week Swati Bansal posted 9 months 1 week ago

Flood situation in Assam continues to remain grim

Assam plaued by the annual flood menace (Image Source: Akash Basumatari)

Covid-19 and floods: A double whammy for Assam

Assam is plagued by the annual flood menace, but this time it is battling the fury of floods amid the coronavirus pandemic. Amita Bhaduri posted 9 months 1 week ago

It is an annual episode that plays itself out. Assam is, once again, reeling under flood – loss of human and animal life, severe damage to agricultural crops, property, millions of people displaced from their homes, absence of flood preparedness or early warning systems, delayed relief action by the government and the silent apathy of the mainstream media.