Citizens' Rights and Duties
How forest-dwelling communities are braving the pandemic
posted 3 months 1 week agoThe pandemic and lockdown measures have had a drastic impact on a large population of poor and marginalised communities, causing loss of livelihoods and employment, food insecurity and socio-economic distress. While vulnerabilities, atrocities and injustices faced by forest communities due to forest, conservation and economic policies have increased d

Governance lessons that could keep us prepared for pandemics
posted 3 months 2 weeks agoUnabashed assaults by human beings on the natural ecological system have caused the coronavirus to spread in the first place.

Pandemic impacts on women – Stories of survival
posted 3 months 2 weeks agoThe pandemic has wrought havoc on the entire world. Pessimism, suffering, unemployment, hunger and poverty resound in all corners. To survive is a physical, mental and financial battle. And every family and individual has an anecdote to narrate that speaks volumes about their combat strategy, losses and victories.

The women sanitation champions of Angul
posted 3 months 2 weeks agoSita Behera, the 35-year-old mother of two lives in the Radhamadhavapura unauthorised slum in Angul. She is the President of the Ward Sanitation Committee (WSC) that is leading the work on making the slum open defecation free. Driven by the desire to improve the living conditions for her children and the neighbourhood at large, she prompted 140 families to construct latrines over two years.

Overexploitation of groundwater highest in Punjab: Government
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoPunjab no.1 in overexploitation of groundwater

Gendered impacts of COVID-19
posted 3 months 3 weeks agoCOVID-19 has unleashed one of the greatest human tragedies of the contemporary era demonstrating our fragility and has laid bare severe and systemic inequalities at all levels. It provides several lessons in the conduct of all aspects of human personality, professional, societal, and institutional lives globally.

Improving city-wide sanitation service delivery in small towns of Odisha
posted 4 months agoTucked away in the slums of Dhenkanal, a small community offers a glimpse of how sanitation solutions have changed hundreds of lives for the better. Till recently, post rains in the absence of proper drainage, the clogged lanes were causing a lot of inconvenience to the residents of Parhatiya Sahi slum.

Sanitation empowered her
posted 4 months agoIn a corner of the Kathagada locality in the Parhatiya Sahi slum of Dhenkanal stands a small neat house. Surrounded by a well-tended garden that is planted with fruit trees, flowers and grass, this is Reena Rani Singh’s home. She is a multi-purpose local leader and is a member of the local Self Help Group (SHG), Mahila Arogya Samiti and Slum Sanitation Committee (SSC).

Satyagrah by the river calls for action against erosion
posted 4 months agoSince last week, people of Birjain village have been protesting against erosion by the river bank. They are demanding that the government should put in efforts to prevent river erosion and save their houses, otherwise they will continue with their Satyagrah and perform Jal Samadhi (suicide by drowning). Sattore, a flood-prone Panchayat has about 3000 houses.

Agriculture and food security challenges amid Covid-19
posted 4 months 1 week agoIndia has seen large scale rural-urban migration of people trying to escape rural distress in the last few decades.
