-The Asian Age The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and state governments not to hide behind the “smokescreen of lack of funds” and ordered wide-ranging relief for drought-affected people in 12 states. These include mid-day meals during the summer vacation, addition of egg or milk to the mid-day meal menu, to universalise foodgrain rations and ensure adequate and timely release of funds for NREGA. It also ordered implementation of...
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Denial of forest rights spurs conflict in Little Rann -Himanshu Kaushik
-The Times of India Ahmedabad: Salt pan workers, fishing community and maldharis in the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK) should be given their respective rights - salt making, fishing and pastoral land grazing. When denied these rights, locals illegally make salt and graze cattle in the forest area, leading to hassles with the forest department, a study commissioned by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has found. During the 2012...
More »Survey by Swaraj Abhiyan highlights plight of drought-hit
-PTI Several villages in Bundelkhand region spread over Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are facing "acute shortage" of drinking water, cattle deaths along with "inaction" of the state machinery, a survey by Swaraj Abhiyan said. Releasing the survey report, Swaraj Abhiyan co-founder Yogendra Yadav today said 40 per cent of the 43 surveyed villages in Madhya Pradesh were depending on "two or less" hand pumps for their water needs. Among the 79 villages...
More »Dying silently in Bundelkhand's drought -Supriya Sharma
-Scroll.in Dry ponds have become the graveyard of dead animals. Governments are neither counting the dead, nor helping those still alive. It breathed its last on the morning of April 20. Its tiny legs collapsed as it inched close to a handpump near the village temple. Villagers took the body away. The calf lay on the dry bed of the village pond in Achchara in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district, one of the 13 districts...
More »Swaraj Abhiyan to launch padyatra through drought area -Rosamma Thomas
-The Times of India JAIPUR: Swaraj Abhiyan has announced results of a third survey conducted in seven UP districts and four MP districts falling in the Bundelkhand region. The survey, conducted over the phone, showed that the drinking water situation is dire in many villages - in 40% of villages surveyed there were only two functional hand pumps. Unable to provide fodder and water to cattle, villagers have taken to letting...
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