-The Times of India HYDERABAD: In what could be more bad news for the Telangana government, the state groundwater department warned that wells in several parts of the state are likely to go dry. Even if the next monsoon is good, the water would not be sufficient as the depth of available groundwater is expected to be lower than normal, the Groundwater Board stated in its report for September. The present situation "may...
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Black Diwali: Six farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha
-DNA It's been a black Diwali for Vidarbha where six farmers - four from Yavtamal and one each from Akola and Amravati - have committed suicide in the last 24 hours, casting a dark cloud over what should have been a time for rejoicing after the kharif crop. The farmers who ended their lives are Rajendra Chahand of Kelzara village, Dutta Chede of Umari (Pathar), Nagraj Mahadolhe of Parva, Arun Kurnule of...
More »Cyclone damage less than crop loss
-Deccan Chronicle KARIMNAGAR (Telengana): Karimnagar DCC president K. Mrutyunjayam said the crop loss due to drought conditions in Telangana state was more than the devastation caused by cyclone Hudhud in Visakhapatnam in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. He was addressing a mediapersons here on Sunday. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is announcing new schemes and opting to conduct new surveys only to divert people's attention from his inefficiency. He asked the government...
More »Of Millstones, Milestones & Millionaires -P Sainath and Ananya Mukherjee
-GRIST Media If hard work and enterprise inevitably made you prosperous, every rural woman would be a millionaire. These women have borne the brunt of the radical, often brutal transformation of rural India these past two decades. Our writers examine the hardships they continue to face as well as their remarkable vision to solve some of the greatest problems of our times such as food security, environmental justice and developing a...
More »And peanuts for MGNREGA -Bunker Roy
-The Indian Express We want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to succeed in his national campaign to tackle the vast problems of the poor in Bharat. But his one-time contractor turned Union minister for rural development is succeeding in making his own prime minister look contradictory and indecisive to the nation and the world. The prime minister talks about constructing toilets and improving sanitation, opening bank accounts for every poor, excluded family,...
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