-India Water Portal NREGA has emerged as a go-to scheme for water conservation in tribal areas leading to higher irrigation coverage and thus augmenting agricultural production Out of India’s total population of 1210.19 million, 104 million, i.e., 8.6% are tribal (Census, 2011), India has one of the highest diversity among the tribes in the world. Broadly tribal inhabit two distinct geographical areas – the Central Indian Tribal Belt and the North-East. About...
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A layperson's guide to understanding the global Human Development Report 2021/22
It is hard for the media to ignore the findings of global Human Development Report (HDR) whenever a newer and updated version is released. Every time when the HDR is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), media persons and commentators tend to compare the performance of their respective countries with that of performance in previous years as also with respect to the relative performance of other nations. One of...
More »Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021: WMO
-Press release by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) dated 18 May 2022 Geneva, 18 May 2022 (WMO): Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. This is yet another clear sign that human activities are causing planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere, with harmful and long-lasting ramifications for sustainable development and...
More »बुंदेलखंड में कुपोषण की समस्या पर नीति निर्माताओं को जरूर देखना चाहिए!
हाल की मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स यह बताती हैं कि आगामी उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले उत्तर प्रदेश के बुंदेलखंड क्षेत्र को लगभग रु. 6,300 करोड़ की परियोजनाओं की घोषणाएं की गई हैं, जिनमें झांसी में टैंक रोधी मिसाइलों के प्रणोदन प्रणाली के लिए 400 करोड़ रुपये का संयंत्र भी शामिल है. 18 नवंबर, 2021 को झांसी नोड (उत्तर प्रदेश रक्षा औद्योगिक गलियारे से संबंधित) में पहली परियोजना के लिए नींव...
More »The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more
Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system of anti-tank guided missiles in Jhansi. The foundation was laid for the first project in the Jhansi node (related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) on November 18, 2021. The two...
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