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FeaturesMithila's women paint their way out of poverty
The Bharati Vikas Manch, in Bihar's Barheta village, has been instrumental in teaching poor village women the famous Mithila genre of painting. The skill has helped transform lives and ward off poverty in many backward villages in the state More... Janavani: A reporter in every villageThe problems of the rural poor, dalits and adivasis are given short shrift in the mainstream media, a fact that's corroborated in a recent CYSD study in Orissa. To counter this trend, an exclusive newspaper, Janavani, for and about Orissa's rural poor, was launched in January this year More... MKSS provides a blueprint for a workable employment guarantee scheme in RajasthanHow can the drought-hit state of Rajasthan manage a scheme that will guarantee every poor household 100 days of employment a year? How can it finance this scheme costing Rs 1,600 crore per year? The Mazdoor Kisaan Shakti Sangathan has some answers More... Maa Bambaleshwari! Chhattisgarh's women have taken chargeOne million women in the newly-formed state of Chhattisgarh have formed 76,000 self-help groups and are now running the weekly bazaars, the fisheries and even the stone quarries More... The hamlet that Orissa forgotThe Juang tribal village of Talapada is on the border of Keonjhar and Dhenkanal districts. Consequently, it receives no development assistance from either district. Five large mining companies operate within 20 km of the hamlet, but still the village is barely touched by civilisation. The witch doctor is their only hope. No one has heard of family planning. There is no teacher at the primary school More... The multi-billion-dollar fuelwood trade is the last resort for India's poorAs ecological degradation leads to the loss of livelihoods from agriculture and forests, some 11 million desperate people in India eke out a living collecting and selling fuelwood. It might be time to stop viewing the trade as a threat to our forests and to set about organising it and weaving it into our national forest policy instead More... Can loans eradicate poverty?Do loans actually help ease poverty? If one were to go by the results of the World Bank-supported District Poverty Initiatives Project in Rajasthan, it would seem not More... Living through the great droughtYana Bey travels through the poverty-stricken Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput region of Orissa, meeting villagers with long memories of hard times and starvation More... Growth sans developmentPolicymakers never fail to make a connection between the rate of economic growth and the apparent fall in poverty levels in the '90s. But the rhetoric is at variance with reality. The total number of poor has actually increased substantially in the decade following liberalisation More... |
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