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Guest post by: Amita Bhaduri

The public art outreach project was organized by the Max Mueller Bhavan in association with the Government of Delhi and the Goethe-Institut (Hamburg, Germany) as a part of the “Year of Germany in India” programme opened on 5^th of November, 2011. The art exhibition which continued till the 19^th of November co-curated by artist Ravi Agarwal who is also a practicing environmentalist (Director, Toxics Link) along with German artist, Till Krauser attempted to create a pulsating synergy between the Yamuna and Elbe rivers.

Gigi Scaria’s - The fountain of purification

Photo courtesy: Rocky Thongam

This is a 24 ft installation representing a four storey apartment complex that draws Yamuna water, purifies it at various levels and dispenses it from the top in the form of a fountain.

Sohail Hashmi, an author, film-maker, one of the founders of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) and a true Dilliwala on 5 December 2011 at the India Habitat Center. The presentation woven around photographs of the city's step well

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ABT Society is seeking to recruit young professionals for exciting career opportunities in rural development in Tamilnadu.

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Bihar Water Development Society (BDWS) works on projects related to education, health care, self-help groups and socio-economic development programmes. The basic purpose behind these activities is to work for the upliftment of the rural masses and to alleviate the sufferings of the poor, the marginalized, especially of women who are deprived of self-dignity, confidence and self-respect and handicapped in many ways while struggling to come to the main stream of society.

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Advisory Services in Environmental Management (ASEM) develop, evaluate and implement projects and activities that aim at protecting the environment and its resources in India with sustainable and holistic approaches focusing on relevant sectors (urbanization, industrialization etc.) to address the priority needs of India so as to achieve verifiable environmental improvements.

Vrutti addresses the need for social, technical and managerial resources in the livelihoods sector. It’s a group of young, dynamic professionals who are committed to working for livelihoods promotion and contributing to improved quality of life of the marginalised communities. Our core team is drawn from management, social work and public health backgrounds and has research, planning, policy making and training skills.

Organizer: School of Infrastructure (SIF), School of Earth Ocean & Climate Sciences (SEOC), IIT Bhubaneshwar

Venue: Institute auditorium, Samantapuri, IIT Bhubaneswar

Description:
SIF and SEOC of IIT, Bhubaneswar are organizing an Workshop on Indian Water Management in 21st Century (IWM-2011) during December 27th-29th 2011.

The programme will be conducted through an interactive workshop wherein international and Indian experts will participate as lecturers and moderators. Equally, the participants will learn from each other as to what solutions have worked, why and what solutions also have not worked and also the technological advances in the field of Water Resources Engineering and Management. The course would be appropriate for professionals from government water agencies (central, state or municipal), universities, research organizations, private sector companies, NGOs and self-employed water professionals.

Organizers: PATH

Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
            January 19^th – Silver Oak Room; January 20^th – Magnolia Hall

Social Media Partner: India Water Portal

The most affected will be Tamil Nadu followed by Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala leading to floods, overflowing of dams and damage to property. Assessments of the earthquake in Sikkim are now ready as information is finally available.

This report prepared by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) examines how information related constraints in poor rural areas are being overcome and how information technology is being employed to the benefit of people in South Asia.

Poor people are constrained by limited access to information and poor communications technology. The research looked at the use of ‘information communications technologies’ (ICTs) in providing agricultural extension services, getting timely market price information, finding out about rural wage labour opportunities, helping rural communities to build a sustainable asset base and understanding crop diseases and soil nutrition.

The results of the research bring together rigorously tested practices and methods of applying ICTs for improving rural livelihoods. Each research study has investigated how and to what extent a specific ICT intervention made a difference. Together it shows how ICTs have empowered rural people and transformed livelihoods in agriculture: by filling information gaps, raising awareness, building skills and extending social networks.

The focus was on agricultural communities, as Asia’s poor and middle-income countries have primarily agriculture-based economies. However, a broader ‘livelihoods’ approach has been taken to ensure that we observe the variety of ways ICTs can have an effect on rural communities. The scope of the research took into account the range of on-farm and off-farm productive and reproductive activities that support farming households and communities.