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MP districts home to most malnourished, over-nourished kids -Neeraj Santoshi

-Hindustan Times BHOPAL: Shahdol and Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh have the highest percentage of over- and under-nourished children among 100 districts, according to an Annual Health Survey, which, experts said, needed further validation. With 31.3% over-nourished children under the age of five, Shahdol topped the Clinical, Anthropometric and Biochemical (CAB) survey 2014 done in 100 districts of nine states. The district-wise analysis of the CAB survey was released recently in the annual health...

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After decade of drought, Bundelkhand flooded -Ramendra Singh

-The Indian Express Bundelkhand: Most of the casualties were due to house collapses, while at least four people were swept away due to the strong water currents in Mahoba and Banda. Lucknow: Having borne the brunt of drought year after year, Bundelkhand is facing the other extreme this monsoon. The heaviest rains in over a decade have inundated 500 villages and caused severe waterlogging in small towns, claiming nearly a dozen lives...

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'Drought, debt driving farmers out of their homes'

-Deccan Herald New Delhi: A large number of farmers in drought-affected states are debt-ridden and many are migrating from their villages, according to a survey by an NGO. According to ‘Lessons from Desolation: A Citizen’s Report on Impact of Drought and Learnings for Future,’ prepared by Action Aid, 40-65 % of the farmers in the drought affected states are indebted while 20 % have migrated to nearby towns and cities in search of...

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Rainfed farming: A watershed moment -Harish Damodaran

-The Indian Express A Pulses Revolution is possible even in the most backward districts, as a PPP project in Bundelkhand has shown. Damoh (Madhya Pradesh): Zahim Khan has two major worries, as he surveys the urad (black gram) crop on 14 out of the 20-acres land being jointly cultivated by him with 13 other farmers. The immediate concern is rains. Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand Region, of which his village Somkheda is...

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The abandoned villages of Bundelkhand -Nikita Mehta

-Livemint.com Tiliya, one of many villages in Bundelkhand Region, has been emptied of its young people as they have migrated to the cities to find work, usually menial jobs Jhansi/ New Delhi: Adjacent to the Pahuj river, surrounded by small rocky hills in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh lies Tiliya, a village of 42 households. Most villagers are farmers but, strangely, almost all the farmers are elderly. They put it down to ‘Palaayaan’...

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