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No meal, no school for Bodo children
There are 793 primary schools in Bodoland which, in the absence of government recognition, have no concrete buildings, free textbooks, water, sanitation and, most of all, midday meals. As a result, school attendance is low, an unfortunate situation in a region that has 33% literacy compared to 64.28% for Assam as a whole More... Trees firstCommunities throughout Orissa have been regenerating and protecting their forests since the beginning of the 20th century. Today, around 17,000 village forest protection committees in roughly 19,000 villages protect 2 million hectares of forests. That means that over a third of Orissa’s total forest area is now under community control even though ‘legally’ it is state property More... Far from safe with institutional deliveriesThe government’s Janani Suraksha Yojana is pushing pregnant women towards institutional deliveries, but a study finds that the system is not ready to handle them. Women report terrible experiences at public health centres More... Migrating towards hungerBefore they migrated to the city, the Gond adivasis had a plentiful supply of fruit and vegetables that grew wild. Now they make do with street food, packaged food like biscuits and gutka to dull the hunger pangs. The second in this series looks at how migration impacts the food and nutritional status of the urban poor More... Nipped in the budChild marriage still flourishes, as a recent public hearing revealed. How should the problem be dealt with? By making all marriages under the age of 18 for girls and 21 for boys invalid, instead of only those resulting from force or trafficking as at present? Or by public education the way 12 dalit women who bring out a monthly magazine in Andhra Pradesh called Navodayam do it? More... Pachyderm panic in AssamRampant habitat destruction has forced Assam’s elephants into close contact with humans. It is now all-out war between hungry elephants and angry tea estate workers. And still the forest department, the tea authorities and the district administration keep passing the buck More... ‘We must recognise a new type of crime: that which is committed against future generations’Bianca Jagger, former wife of rockstar Mick Jagger, is a campaigner for the rights of indigenous peoples, including the Dongria-Kondh in Orissa who are protesting Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mines in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. Jagger tells Infochange about the campaign that has led the Church of England and others to withdraw their investment on ethical grounds More... Waging a green warFormer Bodo militants have surrendered their guns but are still at war – against poachers and the timber mafia that are destroying the Subankhata Reserve Forest in Assam’s Baksha district More... The taming of the wildsThe first of a series on community forestry initiatives in Orissa, researched as part of the Infochange Media Fellowship 2009, discusses how India’s forests came to be controlled and owned by the state after 1855, placing the state in perpetual conflict with forest-dependent communities More... Children and women with HIV face destitution and violenceFifteen per cent of India’s 2.5 million HIV-positive are children. That’s 375,000 children, with 50,000 being born infected or becoming infected each year. The government has woken up to the tragedy of women and children infected or affected by AIDS and held a series of public hearings across the country recently More... Friend, guide and counsellorOrganised networks of HIV-positive people have penetrated to the districts where they are active in reaching out to each and every identified positive person to bring them their rights. Most prevention and care programmes by both national and international bodies closely liaise now with DLNs to ensure the success of their projects More... Urban poverty and malnutrition increase in MPMalnutrition in Madhya Pradesh is much higher than the national averages for India. And MP’s urban poor are worst-affected. This is the first in a series of articles, researched as part of the Infochange Media Fellowships 2009, that analyse the food security of the urban poor who reside in the slums of Bhopal More... ‘The world cannot wait for USA and China to announce emission-cuts’: Gro Harlem BrundtlandAn interview with Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and one of the earliest leaders to focus on global warming More... Famine-like conditions in Aila-affected areasIn its continuing coverage of the cyclone-affected Sunderbans, Infochange finds some 700 families in the K-plot island close to starvation. Nothing grows here any more, and rice is priced at Rs 22/kg. Villagers are desperate for work under NREGS More... The white tiger mysteryThe sighting of a white tiger in Madhya Pradesh created a buzz in conservation and media circles recently. Ashish Kothari is the only one who has got the inside story More... |
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