-Sabrang India Union of Anganwadi workers urges the state government to supply adequate nutrition and resolve the conflict. Uttar Pradesh Anganwadi Employees Union demanded timely and appropriate delivery of supplementary nutrition to anganwadi centres as per Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) scheme. The demand was reiterated following a conflict between workers and the people of Bulandshahr on February 28, 2022. On Monday, anganwadi workers protested outside the district administration’s office to demand an...

-Down to Earth Farmers in the state are not getting urea; if they are, it is at almost double the price Urea prices are skyrocketing in Chhattisgarh due to the government’s decisions these days. So bad is the situation that farmers are being forced to buy urea on the black market and then cultivate paddy at a higher cost and bear the losses. Due to this, farmers from Raipur, Mahasamund, Bilaspur and...

-Hindustan Times At 54.9 million, young men and women in the 18-30 age group constitute 36.5%of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh is home to 54.9 million young men and women who are in the 18-30 age group. That is approximately 36.5% of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections. For an overwhelming majority of this cohort, the 2014 Lok Sabha and the 2017...

-The Hindu Activists participating in jawabdehi dharna in Rajasthan have said their protest will continue until the statute is enacted JAIPUR: Information and livelihood rights activists in Rajasthan have shifted their emphasis from enactment of a transparency and social accountability law to an early introduction of the Bill on the subject, following a budgetary announcement in the State Assembly. The ruling Congress had, in its manifesto for the 2018 Assembly election, promised to...

-Down to Earth Climate change, desertification and the sustainability-affordability linkage three extremely critical issues facing India today Bhupender Yadav, Union minister of environment, forests and climate change, released Down To Earth’s Annual State of India’s Environment Report 2022 at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue organised by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) March 1, 2022. “Reducing consumption and forming a self-restrained society is the only way that we can live with nature...