Sustainability

NGT takes notice of waste dumping in Assam's Deepor Beel

Raujibhai came to Dholavira with the excavation team of the Archeological Society of India when he was 19 years old.

Centre launches the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

"The agricultural production in our region has deteriorated due to pollution. Haphazard mining has lead to serious drinking water problems in the area", says Indar Bilas Shah, a 56- year old resident of Obada village, Lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda, Odisha. He's not the only one. Thousands of villagers in Jharsuguda echo these sentiments. 

Who's to blame?

Centre approves reconstituting the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan into Swachh Bharat Mission

SC gets strict with illegal river sand miners

Rapid increase in the use of groundwater and its declining availability has threatened the existence of this important resource. A community experiment by Desh Bandhu and Manju Gupta Foundation (DBMG), which involves implementing water resource development and mobilising farmers to use groundwater as a common resource through group wells, is showing good results.

Higher monetary incentives for toilet construction and delinking sanitation mission from MGNREGS

Water scarcity is being felt all across the world today. A major contributor to this loss is the excessive mining of groundwater and the lack of understanding of how traditional water sources in the villages, ponds and wells, contribute in keeping villages self sufficient .