Villages of Widows in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna District

Panna: In the extreme summer heat, 35-year-old Mithali Adiwasi of Manjha village is seated outside her mud house, cleaning lice from her four-year-old daughter’s hair. A mother of two girls, Mithali is worried how to feed them. Early in the morning, she had gone to...

CSIR to certify air quality monitoring sensors

The Union Environment Ministry has tasked the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-National Physical Laboratory (NPL) with certifying air quality monitoring instruments. This is in anticipation of a rising demand by States — against the backdrop of...

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

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...

World Tribal day – 9 August 2019

Celebrations and Events were held all across the country on the occasion of World Tribal Day on 9 August 2019. Tribals all around the country got together, narrated problems faced by them and vowed to continue the struggle for their Rights. आदिवासी संगठित होकर लेंगे...

पन्ना में मशरुम की खेती

पृथ्वी ट्रस्ट द्वारा इन्विरानिक्स ट्रस्ट दिल्ली के सहयोग से अएस्टर मशरूम की खेती को बढावा दिया जा रहा है अपने और बच्चों के खाने में मशरूम के उपयोग से बच्चों महिलाओं को भरपूर प्रोटीन और पोषक तत्व मिलेंगे जिससे बच्चों में ब्याप्त कुपोषण और एनिमिकता को बहुत हद तक कम किया...

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...