Karnataka

Can traditional tanks help Bengaluru in reviving its groundwater levels and in preventing the growing water crisis that the city is currently facing?

Traditional tanks in South India

The community of Narayanaswamykote in Bagepalli block of Chikballapur district in Karnataka has earnestly been protecting and restoring their 240 plus acres of commons for over a decade now. There are 68 households in the village and a majority of them depend on agriculture, livestock rearing, wage labour and non-timber forest produce (NTFP) collection for their livelihoods. 

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Field visits are an exciting enterprise, especially as a young student who wishes to understand rural India. But they are also a complicated process of seeing and discerning, trying to figure out what is real and what is not. Hagiographies of local mobilisation are common in such endeavours, which, in some cases, are justified. To give into such tendencies is to pick the easy way out.

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Citizens, civil society practitioners and academia have come together to launch ‘Ellara Bengaluru’, a community-driven coalition that will create initiatives to build a climate-resilient and inclusive Bengaluru city.

Nestled in the northern expanse of Bengaluru, Jakkur Lake occupies a pivotal point where streams from Yelahanka, Agrahara, and Shivanahalli converge. Once a realm of fruit orchards and scattered settlements, Jakkur has undergone a profound transformation in the past two decades.

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The Maralappanahalli community has come a long way since the formation of its Grama Parisara Abhivruddi Samiti in 2017. The livelihood basket of the 40 households here largely comprised agriculture and livestock rearing for the longest time, but the Samiti has been instrumental in helping its people learn about MGNREGS and avail it to support their livelihoods.