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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

Creating scalable, sustainable agriculture programs

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

Assessment of India's preparedness: Implementing effective social protection

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

Insights from Atal Bhujal Yojana in Rajasthan

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

Fostering innovation in the green cooling sector

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

Employment guarantee during Covid-19

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)

Swachh Bharat Mission launched on Gandhi Jayanti

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 06 Oct, 2014 11:09 PM

PM launches the nationwide cleanliness campaign

Swachh Bharat Mission (Source: Economic Times)

First river interlinking project initiated

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 06 Oct, 2014 09:15 PM

Interlinking of Ken-Betwa rivers initiated

The Ken-Betwa river link (Source: Shannon)

3000 MW Dibang mega project approved without public consultation

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 29 Sep, 2014 10:26 PM

Dibang hydel project gets Centre's nod

People protesting Dibang Project (Source: SANDRP)

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan is now Swachh Bharat Mission

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 29 Sep, 2014 09:54 PM

Centre approves reconstituting the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan into Swachh Bharat Mission

A toilet constructed under Parishudh initiative

Uttarakhand submits Rs. 9478 crore Ganga clean-up plan proposal

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 22 Sep, 2014 05:52 PM

Uttarakhand Government submits to Centre the Rs 9,478 crore Ganga Action Plan

The Ganga has its own website!

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 15 Sep, 2014 09:36 PM

Water Ministry launches a portal on the Ganga river

Supreme Court gets strict with illegal river sand miners

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 15 Sep, 2014 09:25 PM

SC gets strict with illegal river sand miners

50% of MGNREGS reserved for water conservation work

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 08 Sep, 2014 10:18 PM

50% of MGNREGS work should be for improving water conservation: Government

Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS

Furious Jhelum claims 160 lives

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 08 Sep, 2014 06:19 PM

J&K reels under the worst flood in 60 years

Ken-Betwa river link to divert 6,000 hectares of Panna Tiger Reserve

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 01 Sep, 2014 10:06 PM

Ken-Betwa river link to take away 10% of MP's Panna Tiger Reserve

Map showing Ken-Betwa river link (Source: Shannon)

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July 4, 2024

बांदा, जखनी गांव : आज भी खरी है मेड़बंदी

मनुष्य को जब से भोजन की आवश्यकता पड़ी होगी उसने भोजन का आविष्कार किया होगा। किस स्थान पर भोजन उगाया जाए? फसलें पैदा की जाएं जमीन खोजी होगी खेत बनाया होगा। खाद्यान्न पैदा करने के लिए खेत का निर्माण तय हुआ होगा तभी से मेड़बंदी जैसी जल संरक्षण की विधि का आविष्कार हुआ होगा। यह हमारे पुरखों की विधि है जिन से खेत खलिहान का जन्म हुआ है एवं जिन्होंने जल संरक्षण परंपरागत प्रमाणित सर्वमान्य मेड़बंदी विधि का आविष्कार किया है जिसमें किसी प्रकार की कोई तकनीकी शिक्षा नवीन-ज्ञान, वैज्ञानिक ज्ञान की आवश्यकता नहीं होती है।

July 3, 2024

India experiments with parametric insurance to mitigate costs of disasters

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Life during floods in Assam (Image Source: Kausika Bordoloi via Wikimedia Commons)

July 3, 2024

उत्तर कोरिया सरकार ने मानव मल एकत्र करने के लिए आदेश क्यों दिया है

उत्तर कोरिया के तानाशाह किम जोंग उन के एक नए आदेश के बारे में जानना चाहिए कि उन्होंने कोरिया की जनता से 10 किलोग्राम मानव मल एकत्र करने का आदेश दिया है। ताकि उसे खाद के रूप में इस्तेमाल किया जा सके। हालांकि यह आदेश उत्तर कोरियाई लोगों के लिए पूरी तरह से नया नहीं है, क्योंकि वे पहले से ही सर्दियों में खाद के रूप में मानव मल का उपयोग करते आए हैं।

July 2, 2024

From scarcity to sharing: How farmers are managing groundwater in Rayalaseema

Community governance for groundwater management

Jasmine on the fields as part of the groundwater collectivisation agreement at Kummara Vandla Palli village, Sri Satya Sai District. (Images: WASSAN/Swaran)