-Deccan Herald Many of our policies are great on paper, but they face bottlenecks in planning and implementation water has high political salience as a subject in India. The country has made steady progress in access to drinking water since the National Drinking water Mission was launched in 1986. The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) launched in 2019 furthers this progress by aiming to provide functional tap connections to every house. This does not...
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‘He wanted water’: How Dalit boy’s death opened up caste fissures in Jalore village -Mohana Basu
-ThePrint.in Inder Meghwal died Saturday — over 20 days after a teacher allegedly slapped him for drinking water from a clay pot. The family accuses the police of coverup. Jalore: Outside the house of 9-year-old Inder Meghwal in Surana village in Jalore, there’s chaos. Hundreds of people have gathered there to demand justice for the 9-year-old Dalit boy who allegedly died Saturday after his teacher slapped him for drinking water out of...
More »Amid Dam Collapse Danger In Madhya Pradesh, Villagers Returning Home -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com Rocks delayed digging of two channels to release water -- one was finally done by Saturday night; disaster force, army, air force deployed Bhopal: Villagers shifted out to shelter camps due to the danger of a dam bursting in Madhya Pradesh are returning to their homes, even though the risk is far from over. They are worried about their cattle and other livestock. Some water from the dam reservoir was, however,...
More »Bharudpura Dam in MP faces disaster after first filling in Aug 2022
-South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) Bharudpura dam (also called Karam dam) on Karam river, a tributary of Narmada river, near Gujari village in Dharampuri Tehsil of Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh faced major disaster after the very first filling in August 2022 when there was seepage from and massive erosion of the dam wall starting from Aug 11, 2022. The disaster at the Rs 304.44 crore project...
More »Cereal inflation would be hard to tame amidst low rice acreage
Is India going to face inflation in cereal prices during the rest of the current financial year? Experts differ on this. An analysis by Nomura Global Economics and CEIC finds that a below normal monsoon does not always translate into high retail inflation in food. Similarly, an above normal southwest monsoon does not always bring down the rate of food inflation. However, some agricultural experts (please click here, here and...
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