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Livelihood
Returned migrants take to smuggling for want of livelihood
In villages of West Bengal close to the Indo – Bangladesh border, migrants back home during the lockdown have been lured into smuggling for financial sustenance
Gurvinder Singh | Oct 21, 2020 | Malda & North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Elephants establish new habitat in Andhra Pradesh
Farmers suffer crop damages as elephants re-colonize the state after centuries. While Wildlife Week celebrations are on, experts advocate long-term planning to minimize conflicts
Deepanwita Gita Niyogi | Oct 14, 2020 | Srikakulam & Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh
Lockdown threw new hardships along nomadic herders’ paths
Their migration towards summer pastures coinciding with the first lockdown, and with severe restrictions on movement, pastoralists lacked access to pastures, water and fodder, besides facing discrimination
Manu Moudgil | Oct 07, 2020 |
Governance
Mandatory Aadhar seeding impedes access to welfare schemes
Linking of Aadhar with ration cards and bank accounts, mandated to weed out fake beneficiaries of government entitlements, has left many without much-needed benefits during the lockdown
Tazeen Quereshy | Oct 12, 2020 | Jharsuguda, Odisha
Health
Transgenders fight blind beliefs about motherhood and childcare
Creating awareness through street plays and one-to-one counseling, trained transgender women leverage cultural practices to educate tribal women with poor health indicators, the importance of seeking health care
Sanghamitra Ray | Oct 26, 2020 | Rayagada, Odisha
Education
Online classes spell end of education for rural girls
With boys getting preference to use the single multimedia phone at home, girls from poor rural households have discontinued studies, resigning themselves to an early marriage
Jigyasa Mishra | Oct 09, 2020 | Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh
