Vishnu Vardhan

Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on bigger ventures by running small businesses that contribute to healthier community diets. To take on the role of ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ tribal women farmers in Telangana, India, […]

Team TRIFED Van Dhan India shows the way ‘Work from Home’.  Continuing working from home, located in 27 States of the country, a group of over 500 officials from TRIFED, an organisation under the M/o Tribal Affairs, have unleashed the power of Webinars to keep in touch with each other and keep moving and working.

Is uprooting millions of poor tribals from their ancestral homelands ethical? One should not have been surprised when the Centre failed to send its lawyers to the hearing on Forest Rights Act One should not have been surprised when the Centre failed to send its lawyers to the hearing on Forest Rights Act. One has

TRIFED’S “PRODUCTS” A Multi Stakeholders Workshop on “Strategies for Promoting and Marketing of Tribal Products” was organised by TRIFED under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and it was presided over by Union Ministers for Commerce, Industry, and Railways and Tribal Affairs.   IMPORTANT INFORMATION For the purpose of discussing and deciding on a Plan of

NCRB report on Crimes against Scheduled Tribes According to the finding of the report, the Crime against Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) saw an increase of over 7% and 26% respectively in the year 2019 compared to Key findings of the report: Crimes against SCs and STs- Crimes against members of the Scheduled

A reform move? Plan to auction 41 coal blocks ‘on behalf of’ powerful business lobbies. The National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), India’s major civil society network, has asked to immediately revoke the auction of 41 coal blocks for commercial mining in order to “stop corporate loot in eco-sensitive and Schedule V Adivasi areas of