-The Telegraph Manju Cherva (26), a tribal woman of Binua village, West Singhbhum district, is a school dropout. If you ask Manju to spot her block - Manoharpur - on Jharkhand's map, she'll fumble. But she's among 21 women who are making sure that Binua's children can map their ambition and shine in life by getting to study after sunset. Binua is one of India's 18,000-odd villages that live without electricity in...
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Tribal affairs ministry against MoEF move to dilute Forest rights Act- Liz Mathew and Neha Sethi
-Live Mint MoEF notification on 5 February says linear projects such as roads, canals wouldn't require gram sabha consent A move by the ministry of environment and Forests (MoEF) to exempt promoters of so-called linear projects such as roads, pipelines and canals from seeking the consent of village councils in Forest areas will likely be a non-starter unless the government moves to amend the Forest rights Act (FRA). MoEF issued a notification on...
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-The Hindu Activists oppose diversion of Forest land citing continuing non-compliance of several requisites The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is reconsidering its clearance for the controversial Kalu Dam in Thane district. About 999.328 hectares of Forest land in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats region is up for diversion for the drinking water project for Mumbai and Thane. Work on the project had been...
More »A shocker: Not a single public toilet in whole of rural Delhi-Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-The Hindu It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Anyone travelling the length of the rural belt of Delhi that stretches from Badarpur border in South-East Delhi all the way to Narela in the northern periphery of the city, will not find a public toilet along the way. The reason being: all these years no one constructed any. And while many believe the rural population knows best how...
More »When machine 'replaced' man as NREGA labourer-Vivek Deshpande
-The Indian Express Yavatmal: Works worth Rs 36 crore were completed in less than four months, supposedly a manual effort under the central employment scheme MNREGS, according to the Maharashtra's Forest department. An inquiry ordered by the district collector has found it was made possible by a collusion between Forest officials and contractors, who allegedly used machines. Works worth Rs 32 crore were done in only nine of 56 gram panchayats in...
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