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Budget 2021: Will agriculture sector get a boost?
Posted on 28 Jan, 2021 10:15 AMThe agriculture sector is confronted with high price volatility, low returns, low productivity and weather risks.
![The government could consider a shift from the price support system to an income support system. PM-KISAN is a step in that direction, but the assistance under that is lacking. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Planting_Rice_Paddy.jpg?itok=sX7euyIp)
Budget 2021: Cash transfer and urban employment guarantee can help blunt the economic blow
Posted on 26 Jan, 2021 11:03 AMTo revive India’s growth story and to cash in on our rapidly closing demographic dividend window, Prof Santosh Mehrotra, a human development economist suggests four essential proposals that must be included in the Budget 2021. This includes an increased expenditure in infrastructure, health sector and an urban employment guarantee programme.
![There should be an increased expenditure in infrastructure to create jobs in the construction sector. (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/pxhere_1.jpg?itok=brio78RP)
Breathing life into the dying rivers of Pune!
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 10:45 PMIn this year’s India Rivers Week (IRW), Jeevitnadi, an organisation working on rivers in Pune city received the prestigious Bhagirath Prayaas Samman for its exemplary work on spreading awareness and undertaking steps to change the situation of rivers in the city!
![Mutha, the lifeline of Pune city (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Mutha%203.jpg?itok=3BabK-y2)
Ganga's cure lies in people's will for a change
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 12:51 PMIt was Bhagirath who chose to leave his kingdom and commit to austere tapasya, for a thousand years, in order to bring Ganga down from the heavens.
![Ganga river at Bithoor (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/6171495205_eb1660c853_c.jpg?itok=KRWEtP0Y)
Budget 2021: Policy measures in the nutrition sector
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 11:34 AMIndia's food security policy framework includes many proven nutrition interventions. In 2015, India committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger.
![Children eating their mid-day meal at a worksite school in Andhra Pradesh (Image: ILO Asia Pacific, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/24984456222_84706ac7c1_k.jpg?itok=v5mVc8lR)
Natural resource management through a gender lens
Posted on 21 Jan, 2021 05:16 PMBuilding upon decades of international diplomatic relations and scientific research, the United Nations adopted the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ in 2015.
![In incorporating female participation, some programmes only added (futile) burden on these women without challenging the current division of labour. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Woman_harvesting_wheat_Raisen_district%2C_Madhya_Pradesh.jpg?itok=VnTn-5OZ)
Cereals drain India dry
Posted on 20 Jan, 2021 11:14 AMAgricultural stagnation and inefficient irrigation systems
Agriculture continues to be an important sector for the Indian economy and for food security with more than half of the workforce being employed in agricultural activities. Greater use of improved crop varieties, irrigation and fertilisers have contributed to major improvements in crop yields in India.
![Cereals and millets at a bazaar in Nizampet, Hyderabad (Image Source: Aditya Madhav, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/cereals_and_millet_at_a_bazaar_in_nizampet_02.jpg?itok=9CstwWUC)
Ecosystem-based approach: The case of Meghalaya
Posted on 18 Jan, 2021 01:55 PMCommunities have been adapting to climate variability for centuries
![A living root bridge, a type of simple suspension bridge formed of living plant roots by tree shaping in village Nongriat, Meghalaya (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/800px-Living_root_bridges%2C_Nongriat_village%2C_Meghalaya2.jpg?itok=vRG43sGw)
India faced with the onslaught of rising temperature
Posted on 18 Jan, 2021 11:14 AMOn January 4, 2021, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) released a report titled
![2020 was one of the warmest years in India despite La Nina which typically has a cooling effect on global temperatures.(Image: Tumisu, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/tumisu.jpg?itok=1jbZ7CJA)
Unsafe drinking water burdens urban poor
Posted on 17 Jan, 2021 07:25 PMWater in India continues to be extremely polluted and unsafe.
![Safe drinking water, a valuable resource (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Handpump.jpg?itok=3BtJJYQb)