KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Malnourished but diabetic: An Atypical Form of ‘The Rich Man’s Disease’ is Spreading Among Chhattisgarh’s Tribals - Taran Deol
Down to Earth Nirasiya Bai’s three sons are used to their mother fainting every other week. Small pieces of shakkar (brown sugar) are now kept handy and placed swiftly under her tongue every time she is on the verge of collapsing. In March alone, three such incidents have occurred. The 52-year-old resident of Shivtarai village in Chattisgarh’s Bilaspur district is a diabetes patient. Nearly every other family in the village houses...
More »Climate change will likely exacerbate Indian rural household's debt burden
Editorial team, Carbon Copy Ongoing shifts in rainfall and temperature caused by climate change are likely to increase the debt burden faced by rural households, particularly of marginalised groups in dry areas, an editorial in Carbon Copy magazine said. The piece cited a study in the journal Climate Change that argues that changes in climate, along with existing socio-economic differences - caste and landholding in particular — will deepen the size...
More »Adivasis at bottom rung of India’s development pyramid, finds Tribal Development Report 2022 -Shuchita Jha
-Down to Earth India’s tribal communities have been pushed away from alluvial plains and fertile river basins, into the harshest ecological regions, the report notes India’s tribal communities form 8.6 per cent of the country’s population according to the 2011 Census. But they are at the bottom of the country’s development pyramid even after 75 years of independence, according to a new report released November 28, 2022. The Tribal Development Report 2022,...
More »Women without an Aadhaar number are being denied access to a crucial maternity benefits scheme -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-Scroll.in Their health, and the health of their children, is put at risk because they lack the documents needed to enroll for Aadhaar. Bhanoli is a tribal hamlet situated in the craggy hills of Nandurbar district, less than 10 km from the border of Gujarat and Maharahstra. On the rainy afternoon of September 3, a tired Sunita Pawara, just back from work in her family’s rice field, sat in her brick-and-mud hut...
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