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Thursday, 26 December 2019 14:08 Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project Policy matters this week	Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:31 Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange Policy matters this week
Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:31 Only one out of five river basins in the country resilient to climate change: Study News this week	Friday, 13 December 2019 9:12 Trading in virtual water A study highlights the need to scale down the export of rice, maize, buffalo meat and other items to conserve groundwater in India.
Wednesday, 11 December 2019 12:05 Locals reject social impact assessment report of Luhri II hydropower project News this week	Wednesday, 11 December 2019 12:05 NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers Policy matters this week

Menstrual hygiene needs, in times of Covid-19
Deane De Menezes is the founder of Red is the New Green (RING) – an award winning social enterprise working towards reducing the social stigma attached to menstruation. RING aims at creating a framework for sustainable menstrual hygiene management through education, menstrual product access and wa...
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Be wise, water wise - Students get on a mission to combat water crisis
In the past few years, India has undoubtedly developed remarkably, but not enough to eradicate all the problems it has been facing, including the shortage of water. To contribute our part in the process of reducing key water risks, I, Safa Mohammed a student of eleventh grade, along with my fellow s...
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Covid-19 threatens to worsen India's water crisis
While the world has got a reprieve from pollution with emerging wildlife, cleaner air and clearer water bodies during lockdown, Covid-19 might actually be worsening the present water crisis in an inconspicuous manner. The world is still developing more clarity on safeguards that can prevent transmis...
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Flushing away Covid-19, the Mumbai way!
Slums, fast growing Covid-19 hotspots! Slums are fast emerging as Covid-19 hotspots in India, especially in Mumbai, in Maharashtra state, which has been showing the highest rise in Covid-19 cases. While 17 percent of urban households stay in slums in India, 42 percent of the households in Mumb...
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Technology to build knowledge and capacities beyond COVID
The COVID-19 crisis has brought the world to a standstill. Government, civil society and volunteers are rallying to ensure that social and economic inequalities do not dictate how this crisis draws lines between the “haves” and “have-nots”. Nonetheless, the crisis seems to have deepened the ...
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Impact of climate change on river basins in India
India has many reasons to be concerned about climate change. Its large population depends upon climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and forestry for its livelihood. By the mid-century, annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10-40% at high latitudes a...
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MGNREGA gets additional Rs. 40,000 crore funds
Additional Rs 40,000 crore allocated to MGNREGA In a bid to provide work to migrants returning from cities to villages, the Finance Ministry has provided an additional Rs 40,000 crore to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for 2020-21. With this, the scheme alloc...
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Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty: Research
Nearly 260 million Indian could be pushed to poverty due to Covid-19: Researchers According to the United Nations and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the economic fallout owing to coronavirus could push at least 260 million people in the country into poverty. As the virus co...
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Covid-19: Managing the disaster in rural India
With an attempt to contain the spread of deadly Covid-19, Indian government had announced a complete nation-wide lockdown from March 25 onwards. For the first time, the provisions of the National Disaster Management Act, 2005, were invoked since the law came into being after the 2004 tsunami. The Na...
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Developing an effective participatory groundwater monitoring program at village level
The ‘Managing Aquifer Recharge and Sustaining Groundwater Use through Village-level Intervention’ (MARVI) project is being undertaken since February 2012 with the overall aim to improve the security of irrigation water supplies and enhance livelihood opportunities for rural communities in India....
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Ensuring food security in times of Covid-19
The study, ‘Covid-19 induced lockdown - How is hinterland coping’, based on a large survey undertaken by a consortium of civil society organisations undertook a rapid assessment of the impact of series of lockdowns on rural poor households. Of the many coping mechanisms, the most prominent was t...
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Building resilience of communities during and beyond Covid-19
Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed multiple challenges in different geographies, especially for the vulnerable groups living in areas that already have existing issues of water and food security. India Natural Resource Economics and Management (INREM) Foundation has worked in such areas for many y...
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Water levels in major reservoirs maximum in last 13 years: CWC
Water storage level 76 percent more than last year: CWC According to the Central Water Commission's (CWC) weekly bulletin, as on 6 May, 2020, live water storage in 123 reservoirs in India was 68.04 billion cubic metre (BCM) which is 75.6 percent from the corresponding period of last year. Moreover,...
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Jharkhand launches scheme to revive rural economy
Jharkhand government launches three schemes to revive rural economy under the MGNREGA In a bid to revive the rural economy that has been affected by the lockdown owing to COVID-19 pandemic, the Jharkhand government has launched three schemes under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ...
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Need to build inclusive cities in the post-pandemic world
When migrants headed home after Covid-19 lockdown 1.0, Sarojini was suddenly caught off-guard. She decided against moving, after an initial urge to leave for her village in Samastipur, Bihar. Her two sons stay with her at Delhi, doing daily wage labour work, while she works as a domestic help. After...
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Coping with Covid-19: Options before small and marginal farmers of rainfed regions
The global crisis due to Covid-19 has hit India after coursing through western Europe. India’s response to curtail the spread of the disease was quite decisive. It announced a Janata curfew on March 22, followed by a complete national lockdown from the midnight of March 24. This, however, exp...
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Community economies - Reconstructing rural economy with ecological sustainability and ethics of equity
The exodus of migrant workers from urban areas back to their villages in the wake of country wide lockdown has brought rural poverty into sharp focus. Reconstruction of rural economy therefore needs policy and planning attention. Community economy is a branch of rural economy and among other ways of...
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Village institutions take a lead in Covid-19 response
Covid-19 will have major implications in rural areas where the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), a non-profit organisation has been working towards conservation of natural resources through collective action of local communities. Experience indicates that the complete lockdown to contain the...
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Transforming lives in the Covid-19 context: MGNREGS and its potential
As India continues to unravel the actual scale of economic impacts in a world infested by the dangerous Covid-19 virus, lingering images of daily wage labourers and migrant workers attempting a near impossible walk home have been etched in public consciousness. Lives and livelihoods of these laboure...
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Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon, under JJM
Under JJM, Centre to ensure safe drinking water and scale up activities during monsoon The Centre has advised states to use 25 percent of annual allocation, termed as flexi-funds, under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) for implementing measures including chemical treatment of water so as to ensure safe dri...
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Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-25 07:38

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UP emerges as the top state in the country to give employment under MGNREGS

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Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-25 07:28

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India's first climate change assessment report warns of heavy rains, more floods and warmers days

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Posted Date : Tue, 2020-06-23 15:09

Can Bihar deal with the double whammy of Covid-19 and the annual floods?

Bihar’s annual floods are right around the corner and there is a fear that the flood hazard will collide with the Covid-19 pandemic and amplify it in a manner that emergency responses to both will get disrupted. The state’s strategy to mitigate the effects of flooding needs to be updated in light of the deadly pandemic.

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Posted By : Swati Bansal

Posted Date : Mon, 2020-06-22 19:27

A statement that carries out a detailed and critical review of the extant EIA governance system since 1994 in the country, with a specific reference to the draft EIA 2020 notification.

The Steering Committee (SC) of the Forum for Policy Dialogues on Water Conflicts in India (Water Conflict Forum in short) has carried out a detailed and critical review of the extant Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) governance system since 1994 in the country, with specific reference to the draft EIA 2020 notification which is up for public comments.

Consequently, the Water Conflict Forum finds that:

a) There have been systemic and institutional shortcomings in the EIA governance in the country dating to 1994 and which have continued since then.

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Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-18 19:01

Date : June 20, 2020 12:00PM - June 20, 2020 1:30PM

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri

Posted Date : Wed, 2020-06-17 13:33

Women leaders of gram panchayats have ideated and executed solutions innovatively and instinctively on dealing with Covid-19 pandemic.

Radha Devi, the sarpanch of Bhadsiya, Nagaur tehsil, Rajasthan dissuaded the principal of the government school from forcing girl students to fetch water for mid-day meal preparation during school hours and sent these girls back to their classrooms. Radha is a 5th class drop-out, who now takes an active role in her panchayat to reduce dropout rates and increase the enrollment of girl students.

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Posted By : Amita Bhaduri

Posted Date : Wed, 2020-06-17 10:08

The time for quick fixes is over; a comprehensive policy overhaul is urgently needed to impede the juggernaut of Punjab's groundwater depletion.

Punjab, a small state in northwest India, derives its name from the Persian words panj (five) and āb (water), meaning the "land of five rivers". Ironically, this state is now regularly in the news for its rapidly depleting groundwater levels.

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Posted Date : Tue, 2020-06-16 09:40

Continuing to prepare rural communities for the most unprecedented events in Alwar.

India’s national lockdown to curb the fast-expanding community transmission of coronavirus led to life coming to a standstill across the country. The long pause of over three months is starting to ease, and the new shift towards “normal” gives health and hygiene ultimate attention. The government has announced the opening of educational institutions with 30 percent attendance starting from the first of July.

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Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-11 21:08

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Railway stations to be classified based on wastewater generation

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Posted Date : Thu, 2020-06-11 21:04

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Fire breaks at an oil well in Assam damaging ecozones around the site

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