Bihar

Irrigation system in India is often about big dams and hundreds of kilometres of canals that incur huge capital expenditure. Hence, policies at the central and the state level are mostly tilted in favour of big projects and often neglect micro-level solutions.

In the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlements, generally known as slums.

An aerospace engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, Siddharth Agarwal could have been drawing a fancy salary like any other 25-year-old if he hadn’t followed his passion.

Six years on, Gujarat fails to form wetland panel

All 14 districts in Kerala have been declared drought-hit

NABARD sanctions loan to NWDA for irrigation projects

Government starts river transport project with eight waterways

NABARD to raise Rs 77,000 crore to fund 100 prioritised irrigation projects

Farakka behind Bihar flood: CM

One of the worst floods in Assam and Bihar