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Madhya Pradesh
Cyclone Vardah hits TN
Posted on 13 Dec, 2016 07:11 AMCyclone Vardah makes landfall in TN, causes massive damage
![Tropical cyclone of 2013. (Source: NASA WorldView)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cyclone_phailin_11_october_2013_0_0.jpg?itok=wsAYqAQ1)
Traditional ways to water security
Posted on 04 Dec, 2016 08:15 PMAlthough droughts are not new in India, we are seeing more of it of late.
![A traditional pond in the fort city of Charkhari, Bundelkhand. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/a_traditional_talaab_in_bundelkhand.jpg?itok=ivm9x0ou)
Twin lakes of Bhoj
Posted on 21 Nov, 2016 10:10 PMThe Bhoj wetland is situated in the heart of Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh. The wetland consists of two man-made lakes--the upper lake and the lower lake.
![Raja Bhoj statue at the upper lake.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0119tp1s.jpg?itok=KmSnJ-rd)
WASH away Ujjain woes
Posted on 07 Nov, 2016 10:31 PMDespite all the hype around Swachh Bharat Mission, the situation on the ground remains dismal. The city of Ujjain is located on the western part of Madhya Pradesh on the Malwa Plateau and is primarily a religious tourism centre due to the Mahakal temple.
![Open well in Hira mill ki chaal slum situated next to an open drain resulting in its water getting polluted.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hira_mill_well.jpg?itok=zVYsnMse)
Water not for profit
Posted on 16 Oct, 2016 08:58 PMIn August 2016, the Karnataka government gave Abu Dhabi-based businessman B.R. Shetty permission to privatise the iconic Jog Falls to make it a perennial waterfall and to develop it into a tourism hotspot.
![NMC employees union and residents of Nagpur protest water privatisation.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img-20160202-wa0006_0.jpg?itok=vgAipuVy)
Damn the dams, say the displaced
Posted on 30 Aug, 2016 12:28 PM"If you are to suffer, you should suffer in the interest of the country.”
- Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking to villagers who were to be displaced by the Hirakud Dam in 1948.
![The Hirakud dam](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/14075678201_097f9dcec5_z_2.jpg?itok=PsMY8lM6)
Notes from Swachh Madhya Pradesh campaign
Posted on 21 Aug, 2016 09:56 PMAjit Tiwari is Deputy Commissioner, Swachh Bharat Mission, Madhy
![Sudam Khade, collector, Sehore, felicitates a woman from the community for their efforts in ending open defecation.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/picture4.jpg?itok=9irNjjG5)
NGT questions UP on potable water to villages
Posted on 24 Jul, 2016 03:30 PMProvide potable water to villages: NGT asks UP government
![Polluted Hindon river (Source: Hindi Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hindon_river_1_0.jpg?itok=xyIK6K4l)
App way to track toilet demand
Posted on 22 Jul, 2016 09:22 PMAs part of its efforts to promote rural sanitation, the government, under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), promises a subsidy of Rs 12,000 for the construction of individual household toilets. Households that fall in the below poverty line (BPL) category and select households such as those belonging to SCs/STs and the ones headed by women can avail of this subsidy amount.
![Snapshot of the mobile app's dashboard](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/564e07136299d232614b5aa0_samarthan_dashboard.png?itok=dGJ17FLZ)
Pipara women realise pipe dream
Posted on 01 Jul, 2016 12:03 PMThe cracks on the parched land of Bundelkhand are waiting for the monsoon to quench the thirst of its arid landscape. Despite the wide-spread drought here, Pipara, one of the villages in the region, stands apart as the only one that has not run completely dry.
![Women fill water from one of the taps at Pipara.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0063es.jpg?itok=E5g14DvX)