-The Indian Express Growth can alleviate poverty but its definition needs to expand to make any tangible difference on the ground. Amidst the din caused by the story of rising billionaires, the message on India’s poverty decline in the recent report of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative has been lost. UNDP and Oxford University released the report on Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2018. This report covers 105 countries. The...

-The Hindu One student is making a drone, another a dancing robot. Scenes from two government schools in Delhi The walls of the entryway of the school are covered with bright charts that talk about everything from sustainable development and ‘Swachh Bharat’ to ‘happiness goals’ and exam schedules. The cream-coloured floor gleams and the sun peeps out from the clouds behind the rows of students — dupattas pinned, shirts tucked in, not...

-Down to Earth While power consumption in agriculture is overestimated, a number of factors influence groundWater extraction. A new study done by Pune-based non-profit Prayas shows that India’s agriculture sector cannot be held responsible for financial stress on electricity distribution companies (discoms) and for declining groundWater. The study titled, Understanding the Electricity, Water & Agriculture Linkages, argues that not only is the subsidy given to agriculture in India overestimated, the relation between subsidy...

-Livemint.com Systematic analysis of groundWater conservation methods must be conducted to forestall the Water crisis India’s over-exploitation of groundWater is contributing to—as stated by NITI Aayog—“the worst Water crisis in its history”. GroundWater is one of the most important Water sources in India accounting for 63% of all irrigation Water and over 80% of the rural and urban domestic Water supplies. In fact, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...

-Newsclick.in 11,487 villages in 167 tehsils will face Water scarcity, farmers likely to be most severely hit. After running in circles over “drought like situation” in Maharashtra, according to the latest study conducted by the state’s GroundWater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA), nearly 71 per cent of the state shows a drop of more than a meter in groundWater level in September, as compared to a five-year average. As many as 170 tehsils...