-The Telegraph The team of doctors investigating the deaths found no trace of litchi in at least 40 per cent of children who died A team of doctors investigating the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) deaths in Muzaffarpur has claimed that the attribution to litchi is likely to be wrong and that it found no trace of litchi in at least 40 per cent of children who succumbed to AES-like symptoms in the...
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Loan schemes don't reach 59% of rural India: Survey
-PTI * Survey also noted that the next generation in 48% farming families does not want to pursue agriculture * At least 43.6 per cent farmers said they did not get the correct price for their produce, said the survey conducted rural media platform Gaon Connection NEW DELHI: Loan schemes don't reach almost 60% people in rural India, says a new survey which also finds climate change to be the biggest challenge for...
More »How the Modi government dismantled India's main defence against drought -Aarefa Johari & Nithya Subramanian
-Scroll.in From Water conservation, the focus has shifted to farm irrigation. At the height of the June summer in Madhya Pradesh, Mannubai Chamariya heaved boulders from the banks of a dry stream to a site where other workers arranged them in a tiled wall, filling the gaps with cement. The work was arduous but Chamariya and the others did not mind it. They were building a small check dam in the hope that it...
More »Caste Discrimination in UP's Bundelkhand is Worsening the Water Woes of Dalits
-TheWire.in/ Khabar Lahariya Dalit residents in the state's Chitrakoot region are being denied access to Water sources by upper castes. It’s peak summer in Itwa gram panchayat in Chitrakoot in UP’s Bundelkhand. Most of the taps and hand pumps are running dry, like every year. This time around, tankers have been hired to deliver Water. They pass by the Dalit basti where the Chamar community resides, and may even pause for a...
More »Maharashtra's Water tanker demand doubles in a year -Rangoli Agrawal
-Hindustan Times/ Howindialives.com According to the Water and Sanitation Support Organisation, government of Maharashtra, the number of Water tankers ordered from May till the third week of June has kept rising and stood at 42,680, against 10,801 during the corresponding period of 2018—an increase of about four times. As the monsoons finally covered more parts of Maharashtra last week, government data from a related metric shows just how grim the Water...
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