-Down to Earth RUDRAPUR: In Udham Singh Nagar district, considered the rice bowl of Uttarakhand, thousands of farmers are dependent on groundWater resources for irrigating Water-hungry crops such as rice, maize and other kharif crops. Since the past decade, this area has been grappling with intense and rapid depletion of groundWater reserves largely due to over-extraction in the industrial area set up at different cities in the district and the cultivation...
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Why are urban and rural voters dissimilar? -Narendar Pani
-The Hindu Business Line Vote shares are generally higher in rural India, because of the centrality of political power in meeting the needs of communities Well before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls have reached the half-way mark there has been a firm reaffirmation of the sharp differences between the urban and the rural voter. The levels of participation of rural voters in Karnataka’s polling have once again been far greater than that...
More »Dry Bundelkhand wants 'ponds for votes' -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Three summers ago, a Water train dispatched by the Centre had chugged into Uttar Pradesh' Bundelkhand region, attempting to provide succour to the parched area. The train had pulled in empty, drawn Water from a local reservoir and triggered a massive political row between the Centre and the state government, as a result. This year, the weatherman's predictions for Bundelkhand are bleak as usual, not ruling...
More »Drought-hit Marathwada, Vidarbha disenchanted with Elections 2019 -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil
-Livemint.com * On 18 April, these victims of drought will vote, though they have little hope of a positive change irrespective of who wins the elections * In Latur, which in 2016 became the first city in India to be supplied drinking Water by a specially commissioned train, has been the epicentre of this drought SOLAPUR/ AHMEDNAGAR/MADHA/ OSMANABAD: It is 2.15pm and the scorching sun makes Valsang village in Solapur district look even...
More »Caught up in polls is a drought forgotten -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com * Over 40% of India is in the grip of abnormally dry conditions. Will the elections bring any relief? * The situation in Maharashtra is approaching the 2016-like crisis, when consecutive years of drought forced the state government to supply drinking Water to Latur by train NEW DELHI: Between November of last year when Sharad Markad opened a cattle relief camp in drought-hit Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra and now, the price of...
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