-Down to Earth The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts are still few and far between When a mobile court visited Luhari village in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district a year ago, it was a blessing for people like Birsan Singh. A tea vendor, Birsan would lose his daily income whenever he had to attend court. He...
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CBSE schools triple as board’s popularity grows across India -Vinamrata Borwankar & Hemali Chhapia
-The Times of India MUMBAI: The landscape of school education has for long promised a variety of options. Almost half-a-dozen school boards-local, national and international-offer Indian students a choice of academic algorithms for careers ahead. But of them all, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education), which was largely designed for those who moved home and could not be loyal to a state board, is picking up popularity across the nation. In 1996-97,...
More »Centre plans to turn eastern states into organic farming hub
-IANS PATNA: The central government is planning to turn India's eastern states into an organic farming-hub, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said here on Monday. "Our priority is to develop Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and eastern Uttar pradesh into an organic farming hub for development of the region and to provide opportunity to millions of farmers to earn more," Singh told media persons. Singh, who hails from Bihar, said organic farming...
More »Toilets at home will not stop rapes, but can reduce risks-Namita Bhandare
-Live Mint Across India, millions of women and girls either wake up well before dawn or wait until late at night to use the open fields that function as their toilet Under cover of a hot night in May in Uttar pradesh's Badaun district, two teenage cousins stepped out to do what millions of girls and women do across the country. Please click here to read the entire article. ...
More »Why do millions of Indians defecate in the open? -Shannti Dinnoo
-BBC It's early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gathering - each person on his own, separated by a modest distance. They are among the 48% of Indians who do not have access to proper sanitation. Coming from a slum close-by, they squat among the few trees and bushes along the railway tracks...
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