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Agriculture and informal sector labour need a budgetary push
What initiatives should the 2016-17 budget include for the agriculture sector? ActionAid India’s submission to the Ministry of Finance looks at these.
ActionAid India
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 08:46 AM

Recent data from the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) as well as the Agriculture Census highlighted the plight of Indian farmers. Around 85 percent are small and marginal farmers with an average monthly income of only Rs. 4653, which is lesser than their monthly expenses. Debt rates are very high among farmers with an average loan of more than Rs.
A farmer in Jhansi, Bundelkhand
Training programme on Sustainable Urban Water Management: Rainwater Harvesting and Decentralised Wastewater Treatment
This short term four day course will focus on – designing rainwater harvesting (RWH) and decentralised wastewater treatment (DWWT) systems including local reuse.
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 01:57 AM

About the programme:
International Conference on Innovations in Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems (ISWATS)
This conference is an international event attracting water professionals and organizations from across the world working towards sustainable water and wastewater treatment systems.
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 01:40 AM

About the event:

The three day conference is being organised by National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, and Ecosan Services Foundation (ESF), Pune. 
National Conference on Peri-Urban Agriculture and Ecosystems
The conference will focus on issues relating the urban and peri-urban areas - influenced by the growth of urban areas placing this in the context of rural-urban linkages.
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 01:21 AM

About the conference:
Gender and water use: Looking beyond pure data
While generating gender disaggregated data, it is important to explore how to represent the gendered worlds and experiences of men and women at the smallest geographical unit--the household.
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 12:36 PM

Growth and development indicators at the policy level many a times demand the need for factual data that is often standardised and expressed as numbers in order to make each local context comparable to other and allow data to be aggregated to higher geographical scales.
Gender and water use (Source: India Water Portal)
Unnatural world: National parks and climate change
Poachers, citizens and sometimes animals themselves are threats to the parks but the biggest new threat is climate change. Do our national parks stand a chance of surviving it?
Chicu Lokgariwar
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 03:39 PM

Forest guards in India have fought many things over time in the course of their daily work--poachers, irate citizens, even animals at times! But they are now facing a threat that may well be beyond their capacity to overcome. A threat that is not just responsible for the death of individual animals, but for the destruction of entire groups of species--climate change.
A herd of elephants cross the Ramganga river at Corbett National Park
Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push
Better regulation and transparency is needed in the WASH sector to ensure that India meets its Swachh Bharat Mission targets, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.
WaterAid India
Posted on 30 Jan, 2016 12:56 PM

While the WatSan sector has been prioritised in the country’s policy agenda through the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, last year’s budgetary outlay was way below desired levels.
Handwashing at a Karnataka school
Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:09 PM

Aiming for an outcome-oriented programme, Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Applications invited for SuSanA - ISC Coordinator
The India Sanitation Coalition (ISC) together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für international Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), are looking for a SuSanA India chapter coordinator.
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 03:20 PM

Background:
Press release: National Sustainable Water & Sanitation Summit 2016
The focus of the summit was to create awareness about the existing water & sanitation issues in India, Governments’ future plan for Swachh Bharat Mission, national reforms on water & sanitation.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 12:52 AM

Day 1:
National Summit on Sustainable Water & Sanitation
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