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   Vexed tribals lay road all by themselves in Agency

Vexed Tribes Lay Road by Themselves Advocacy to the government repeatedly would have been ignored. The tribes of the hamlet of Jajulabandha in the Visakhapatnam Agency made the decision to construct a 13 km “kutcha” road between their village and the closest all-weather road after becoming frustrated by the governments’ and successive officials’ disregard for […]

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Why India’s local health traditions need to be formalised

Why India’s local health traditions need to be formalised Traditional healers need to be brought into the public health systems as they function in a resource-strained ecology A few months ago, Tony, a colleague of mine in Gudalur—a small tribal town in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district complained of mouth ulcers. He whined about black circles,

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Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)

Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) About FSDC: The Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) was constituted in December, The FSDC was set up to strengthen and institutionalise the mechanism for maintaining financial stability, enhancing inter-regulatory coordination and promoting financial sector development. An apex-level FSDC is not a statutory body. Composition: The Council is chaired

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New Geospatial Planning Portal: Yuktdhara

New Geospatial Planning Portal: Yuktdhara Recently, the Ministry of Rural development has launched a new geospatial planning portal, ‘Yuktdhara’ to help in facilitating the new MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) assets with the use of remote sensing and GIS (Geographic Information System) based information. It is a new portal under ‘Bhuvan’. Key

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Annul diversion of green patch near “Amazon of Assam” for coal mining project

Annul diversion of green patch near “Amazon of Assam” for coal mining project, PM Modi told

Annul diversion of green patch near “Amazon of Assam” for coal mining project   It was allowed without environment impact analysis and jeopardise rights of indigenous populations, say NGOs A dozen rights, social and community-based organisations wrote on Saturday to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking him to revoke the proposed diversion of a green region

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