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January 11, 2024 These preliminary findings provide a roadmap for detailed research, offering insights into the jobs, tasks, and skills required to manage rural water resources in India.
Examining jobs, skills, and tasks in rural water sector (Image: JustJobs Network)
December 28, 2023 The report presents six case studies on how sustainable agriculture programmes scaled up in the past in India
A farmer uses a hosepipe to irrigate crops at her farm in the Nilgiris mountains, Tamil Nadu (Image: IWMI Flickr Photos; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 27, 2023 The ASPIRE tool analyses various social protection programs, offering insights into tailoring them for different climate risks
Women working on an NREGA site building a pond to assist in farming and water storage in Jhabua district (UN Women/Gaganjit Singh; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
December 12, 2023 Learnings from India's Participatory Groundwater Management Programme
Launched in 2019, Atal Bhujal Yojana aims to mainstream community participation and inter-ministerial convergence in groundwater management. (Image: Picryl)
January 7, 2023 India’s cooling strategy can simultaneously mitigate the heat-related risks on lives and livelihoods, lower carbon emissions, and position India as a global hub for green cooling manufacturing.
Can India meet its growing domestic demand while also position itself as a manufacturing hub for cooling technologies? (Image: Gije Cho, CC)
October 15, 2022 Role of MGNREGA in the year after the 2020 lockdown: Survey findings from Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh
MGNREGA provided income support or security to vulnerable households during the pandemic (Image: UN Women)
The Kerala page of the Central Ground Water Board
The links to the Kerala page of the Central Ground Water Board and the 2004 Water Level Monitoring Report are available here. Posted on 13 Aug, 2009 04:17 PM

The Kerala page of the Central Ground Water Board, Kerala Region :

Click here

The following resources are accessible there:

Information about Jalanidhi: A World Bank-assisted Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project
Link to Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project - Jalnidhi's - website Posted on 13 Aug, 2009 04:04 PM

Jalanidhi is the website of the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency which implements "Jalanidhi", a World Bank-assisted "Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project" for sustained delivery of adequate quantity of water and sanitation services in rural areas in four districts of Kerala.

Taluk level rainfall data and analysis for all the districts in Maharashtra from the state government's agricultural department
Rainfall information for all districts upto the taluka level for the whole of Maharashtra Posted on 13 Aug, 2009 12:57 PM

This page from the Maharashtra government's agricultural department site gives rainfall information upto taluka level (with data gaps for some periods) for the last 10 years

Click here to know more

Taluka-level GIS database for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh
A database of the spread of and expenditure on watershed development programmes in 3 states of India, enables easy visualisation of the regional variation in the data. Posted on 13 Aug, 2009 09:47 AM

The taluka-level GIS database for Maharashtra, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, is a CD containing a GIS (Geographical Information System) database of the spread of and expenditure on watershed development programmes in 3 states of India, viz., Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

Chapter on water resources from the Chhattisgarh State of the Environment Report
Details of the status of water resources in 2004 in the state of Chhattisgarh Posted on 12 Aug, 2009 02:14 PM

The chapter on Water Resources from the Chhatisgarh State of the Environment Report, 2004 begins with a discussion of the problems in the State like (a) limited irrigation potential created (b) unbalanced irrigable land to cultivable land ratio in districts (c) low budget for maintenance of created irrigation facilities and (d) over-dependence on paddy cultivation.

Rural water supply: Ensuring access to safe water by the Assam Public Health Engineering Department
Figures of coverage of habitations for drinking water supply and rural school water supply in Assam Posted on 12 Aug, 2009 12:13 PM

The status of access to safe water in rural areas of Assam can be viewed at the Assam Public Health Engineering Department website.

Andhra Pradesh State of the Environment: A report from ENVIS
The report has a number of recommendations regarding environmental care and protection that not only influences governmental policy, but also citizen action Posted on 11 Aug, 2009 04:00 PM

The Andhra Pradesh State of the Environment Report is available at the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) cell of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) here

A monthly dose of Odia water news from the Water Feeder
Find attached the first issue (May 09) of 'Water Feeder', a monthly dose of Water News compiled from Odia news papers. Posted on 22 Jun, 2009 11:14 AM

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About the Govt. of India's dugwell recharge programme
CAREWATER requires solicitation for comments on their research study on dug well recharge draws attention to a Government program on decentralised groundwater through dug wells. Posted on 17 Jun, 2009 09:27 PM

   CAREWATER's recent solicitation for comments on IWP blog (click here),  on their research study on dugwell recharge draws attention to a little-known programme of the government of India on decentralized groundwater recharge through the use of farmer d

Reports on implementation of national rural employment guarantee act (NREGA)
This is an compilation of articles that challenge the implementation of national rural employment guarantee act (NREGA) Posted on 11 Jun, 2009 02:27 PM

"Work in progress", is an article by Jean Dreze and Christian Oldiges, that appeared in the Feb. 14-27, 2009 issue of the Frontline Magazine, that compares the data from the NREGA website (www.nrega.nic.in) related to the first two years (2006-07 and 2007-08) of implementation of the NREGA.

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