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Agriculture and informal sector labour need a budgetary push
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 08:46 AMRecent 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](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer_in_bundelkhand.jpg?itok=yufC_z2C)
Training programme on Sustainable Urban Water Management: Rainwater Harvesting and Decentralised Wastewater Treatment
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 01:57 AMAbout the programme:
International Conference on Innovations in Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems (ISWATS)
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 01:40 AMAbout 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
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 01:21 AMAbout the conference:
Gender and water use: Looking beyond pure data
Posted on 05 Feb, 2016 12:36 PMGrowth 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)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/gender_and_water.jpg?itok=35AKXHmW)
Unnatural world: National parks and climate change
Posted on 01 Feb, 2016 03:39 PMForest 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](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/elephant_crossing.jpg?itok=7nBuoIdV)
Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push
Posted on 30 Jan, 2016 12:56 PMWhile 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](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing_in_a_karnataka_school_0.jpg?itok=DFnpKoyP)
Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:09 PMAiming for an outcome-oriented programme, Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
![Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5498477595_b432f838e5_z_0_1.jpg?itok=7mRSfDtn)
Press release: National Sustainable Water & Sanitation Summit 2016
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 12:52 AMDay 1:
![National Summit on Sustainable Water & Sanitation](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/day_1.jpg?itok=76ovufE2)