-Khabar South ASIa Madhusudankati Sulabh Safe Drinking Water Project (SSDWP) uses modern filtration technology to create affordable potable water for residents. Madhusudankati: Access to affordable potable water has long been a dream for Manu Ghosh, a native of eastern India's arsenic belt. Groundwater contamination there has poisoned and killed people for years. "Groundwater is largely unsafe here and branded packaged drinking water is quite expensive for us," Ghosh told Khabar South ASIa. She...
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A sketchy road map for health policy -Nidhi Khurana
-The Hindu Much of the National Health Policy document reads like a report of health issues and systemic challenges, and is sorely wanting on policy detail Health impoverishment - falling into poverty due to health care costs - affects 63 million individuals in India every year. This is a damning statistic, especially when read with the fact that 18 per cent of all households face catastrophic health expenditures (health expenditure greater than...
More »The debate around land acquisition law is all good – but what about the landless? -Nikita Sud
-Scroll.in The current debate is centred on the conflict between the interests of farmers and industry. There are many more livelihoods at stake. There is an important debate simmering in the Indian Parliament on the national land acquisition law that will decide the fate of many of the country's people. Despite its import, the debate has been reductive. It fails to fully appreciate that there is more to the land question than...
More »Nearly half of India's entrepreneurs are women: Study -Ananya Dutta
-The Times of India PUNE: Three years after she graduated from business school, Bhagyashri Dixit took the plunge and set up her own graphic T-shirt brand to fulfil a lifelong dream of setting up her own enterprise. Five years after the brand - SheepStop - had found its feet, Dixit gave birth to her son and is now able to balance her responsibilities towards work and home. "Setting up your own business...
More »Study Says Pregnant Women in India Are Gravely Underweight -Gardiner Harris
-The New York Times NEW DELHI: Her first child survived eight months before succumbing to pneumonia; her second was stillborn; her third, delivered in a rickshaw, gasped for an hour before dying. When she got pregnant for a fourth time, Juhi, a woman from a South Delhi slum who uses only one name, was spotted by a local health worker and taken to a mobile clinic. A doctor diagnosed severe anemia, gave...
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