-Newsclick.in The deeper rot in agriculture can be overcome through more far-reaching reforms, starting from an overhaul of pre-capitalist land relations and relations of production that continue to shackle productivity and are at the root of aggravating poverty, unemployment and inequality in rural India. It has been more than five months since farmers from different parts of the country began protesting in Delhi. They have been unflinching when it comes to their...
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Rajendra Bharud, district collector of Nandurbar, Maharashtra, interviewed by Chitrangada Choudhury (Article.14.com)
-Article-14.com As the Supreme Court demands an oxygen-supply plan from the Centre, caught off guard by an exploding Pandemic, the Collector of a remote, tribal district tells us how he set up five oxygen plants ahead of the second Covid wave. New Delhi: In a hearing on 5 May 2021, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to, within a day, present a plan to provide hospitals of Delhi the 900 metric tonnes...
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-IndiaToday.com Nandurbar, a tribal district in Maharashtra, has evolved a model that ensures optimum use of medical oxygen. The district had started planning for its oxygen needs in September last year and has installed three plants since then. Today, it's self-sufficient in oxygen and is supplying the excess to other districts. The term 'oxygen nurse' was coined in Nandurbar, a tribal district in Maharashtra, for its optimum utilisation of oxygen cylinders. Following...
More »Local factors determine electoral outcomes in States -Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay Kumar, Shreyas Sardesai and Sandeep Shastri
-The Hindu While national leaders can provide support, the ground work needs to be done by local leaders with a mass base and sustained presence in local politics Even as the nation battles the second wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Assembly elections have been completed in four States (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal) and one Union Territory (Puducherry). Though citizens and governments came to be exposed to the debilitating impact...
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