DINDIGUL: For the first time, milch cows, calves and bulls at the ‘goshala' maintained by Dhandayuthapaniswamy Temple in Palani will facilitate the economic uplift of members of self-help groups (SHG) — mostly poor rural women — in Oddanchatram, Palani and Thoppampatti blocks in the district. The temple administration has started distributing these domestic animals to SHGs free of cost. The temple administration has laid only one condition: the recipient has to give...
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A Sieve Of A Scheme? by Chandrani Banerjee
* Documentary evidence gathered by the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Rajasthan points to large-scale embezzlement in nrega projects * Panchayats often furnish fake bills and fictitious companies have been floated to divert funds * Hundreds of crores are lost to this sort of leakage * The CAG, too, has pointed out large-scale irregularities and corruption in the implementation of NREGA projects...
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Ahead of next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen there's a lot of anger in India about the West's pressure on it to sign up to emissions cuts. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder travelled to India's most industrialised state, Gujarat, to see at first hand some very effective - if homegrown - attempts at tapping renewable energy. In the middle of an open field, a man crouches over some Cow Dung and...
More »Technology for farmers through NGOs by Gargi Parsai
In a new initiative, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has turned to non-governmental organisations to reach their technologies to farmers. The extension wing of the IARI on Wednesday interacted with representatives of 25 select NGOs working with farmers to draw a strategy for location specific technology transfer. As a special incentive, the IARI agreed to give free need-based, area-specific seeds...
More »Bindeshwar Pathak by Mridu Khullar
As the 6-year-old son in an upper-class Brahmin family, Bindeshwar Pathak wanted to know what would happen if he touched a scavenger, one of India's "untouchables," stuck at the bottom of the country's social order and fated to collect and dispose of human waste. When he did, his grandmother punished him by forcing him to swallow Cow Dung and urine, and making him bathe in water from the Ganges. "This...
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