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The route to jobs in Bihar now is sport
Rinku Kumari, Muzaffarpur
Youth in Bihar’s villages is being increasingly drawn to sports, lured by the prospect of promising careers, financial rewards and ...
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Give us our forests, say gram sabhas
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
Fifteen panchayats in the Kashmir Valley have passed resolutions declaring forests in their vicinity as ‘community’ forests, in line with ...
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Rajasthan's new law gives gig workers big lift
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A state law passed in Rajasthan recently holds out promise for gig workers by ensuring a public record of their ...
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Adding up accidents gives true picture of rail safety
Bharat Dogra
THE recent horrible train accident in Odisha is a grim reminder of the urgency of improving the safety of our ...
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Lights on the LAC: Micro hydel is the answer
Civil Society News, Gurugram
HIGH up in the mountains in Arunachal Pradesh, close to the border with China, villagers are experiencing for the first ...
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Goa and Karnataka slug it out over water
Derek Almeida, Panaji
NARAYAN Fatu Naik was the lone person wandering around near a gorge excavated at the village of Kanakumbi where the ...
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Regulating freebies: Poll panel's baffling turnabout
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Promises fly thick and fast during election time. Political parties seek to outdo one another in getting the attention of ...
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Has the free power poll promise gone too far?
Civil Society News, New Delhi
FREEBIES have been in the news. Political parties outdo one another in offering concessions to voters. High on the list ...
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Better for food supply to come from local sources
Bharat Dogra
HOW about an idea which can improve nutrition in ways that will also reduce costs significantly? Such a win-win situation ...
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Baksa sets a record with 196 anganwadis in 3 months
Civil Society News, New Delhi
BAKSA has long been accustomed to its obscurity. The pace of development in this northwestern district of Assam has been ...
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A young doctor as DC sizes up Changlang
Civil Society News, New Delhi
CHANGLANG has a size problem. It is one of the biggest districts in Arunachal Pradesh and the second most populous ...
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The many sides to Sweepers’ Lane in Shillong
Patricia Mukhim, Shillong
A housing colony called Sweepers’ Lane for Mazhabi or Dalit Sikhs who have for generations been municipal workers in Shillong ...
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In Kashmir, forest rights after a long time
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
WHEN Articles 370 and 35A were abrogated in 2019, most central laws were implemented in the new Union Territory of ...
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Local issues on the table after poll in Kashmir
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
THE District Development Council (DDC) elections, held in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) from November 28 to December 19 were unprecedented ...
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‘MGNREGA money will run out with rising demand’
Civil Society News, New Delhi
As people pour into villages from cities in a desperate effort to get back home, the only work they can ...
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Two Punjab districts find their solutions
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
The way the government machinery in a state is structured, the real engine for combatting the deadly coronavirus lies at ...
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Govt tightens rules for NGOs, again
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Non-profits will now have to undergo the process of registration every five years under changes proposed in the Finance Bill ...
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How Sangrur cuts red tape, takes services online
Raj Machhan, Sangrur
Sarabjit Singh has come to the Sewa Kendra in Sangrur, a town in southwest Punjab, to apply for a birth ...
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Drug policy in J&K seeks to tackle addiction
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
A new drug policy to check rising cases of addiction has been drafted in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and made ...
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How SocialCops put BPL women on LPG list
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
About 150 organisations across 26 countries turn to SocialCops, a data intelligence company in New Delhi, for data solutions. Their ...
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Dreze:7 hunger deaths were Aadhaar linked in Jharkhand
Civil Society News, New Delhi
In the past two years starvation deaths are being consistently reported from Jharkhand. Activists who went to investigate found that ...
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AHEAD helps panchayats fill in the blanks
Subir Roy, Kolkata
The countryside in Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts of North Bengal, nudging the Bhutan hills, as winter fades, is as pleasant, ...
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Is Aadhaar a blunder? Seven reasons to worry
Civil Society News , New Delhi
In Civil Society, we have been tracking Aadhaar much before it became Aadhaar. Our interview with Nandan Nilekani in May 2010 ...
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Villagers get grievance redressal under one roof
Swapna Majumdar, Nuh (Haryana)
It’s a cold and foggy December morning. But this hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of 35-year-old Nirmala and her 65-year-old mother-in-law, ...
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Saligao start to Goa’s zero garbage plan
Derek Almeida, Panaji
When Sanjit Rodrigues, managing director of the newly-formed Goa Waste Management Corporation, says the Rs 140-crore modern waste treatment plant ...
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Medinipur girls find a friend in Kanyashree
Subir Roy, Kolkata
Monika Soren, from Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, was born into the impoverished tribal Santhal community. Her father was ...
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Roadmap for skill training to provide the young more jobs
Civil Society News, New Delhi
The snobbish divide between academics and skills should end and vocational education should be transformed into an aspirational university system ...
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The small sewage solution is finally here
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Localised sewage treatment systems for as little as Rs 1 crore and catering to just a few score households are now ...
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Poor RTI access in J&K
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
Jammu and Kashmir was one of the few states to introduce the Right to Information (RTI) Act for bringing transparency ...
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‘We face a serious shortage of skilled young people’
Civil Society News, New Delhi
India has a growing number of young people ready to enter the workforce and if they can be given the ...
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Elected Sahariya women swing into action
Swapna Majumdar, Bundelkhand
IT is the wedding season in Gugar, a village dominated by the Sahariya tribe in the Lalitpur district of Uttar ...
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‘We need a long-term plan, livelihoods in Bundelkhand’
Civil Society, New Delhi
For three years Bundelkhand has been in the news for devastating drought, forcing people to flee their arid land in ...
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Dead come back to life in Rajasthan
Civil Society News, New Delhi
The 100-day Accountability Yatra across Rajasthan led by the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) has had an impact. The state ...
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Govt says NGOs are public servants under Lokpal Act
Civil Society News, New Delhi
The relationship between the government and the NGO sector is steadily worsening. Hostility between the two isn’t new. A low-intensity ...
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With P-PAS paddy payments are on time in Odisha
Biswajit Padhi, Bhubaneswar
Almost 90 per cent of Odisha’s farm produce is paddy. But paddy procurement has always been a sticky problem for ...
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J&K panchayats demand 73rd Amendment
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
Once again panchayat elections are going to be held in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) this coming April. They were last ...
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