Employee State Insurance Scheme: Is it for Workers?

Employee State Insurance Scheme: Is it for Workers?

Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) is an integrated social security scheme based on the principle of “pooling of risks and resources”, mandated to provide protection to workers and their dependents in the organized sector in contingencies such as sickness,...
Peak into Health Schemes in Madhya Pradesh

Peak into Health Schemes in Madhya Pradesh

India spends over 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on its core safety net programs. Although there are pockets of good performance and pathbreaking program and design, the overall returns to spending in terms of poverty and improvement in livelihoods of the...
Villagers make bathing soap from Neem seeds

Villagers make bathing soap from Neem seeds

Innovation is creating something out of nothing. This comes true as in case of the people of Bhalumuda village in Tamnar tehsil of Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district. A team from Environics Trust visited the village that is dominated with tribal people. The village lies...