Tarun Kanti Bose
Tarun Kanti Bose is a New Delhi-based journalist.
August 10, 2018
Mohammad Sabir of CISC guides woman villagers, helping them seek government benefits, as a first step towards empowering them (Photo by Tarun Kanti Bose)
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Information helpline improves local governance in Nuh villages

An information center in Nuh district that lags in economic and social development has created awareness about government schemes and entitlements, and has empowered villagers to claim their rights

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August 8, 2018
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Reversing the indefensible culture of open defecation

Ending open defecation in India’s villages cannot be the sole responsibility of the government. The heads of rural households also need to made responsible to ensure that women have access to safe sanitation

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July 30, 2018
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Village youth in Western Ghats enrich sacred grove

A bunch of passionate young men are saving big trees uprooted in the Sahyadri Mountains by transplanting them at their village’s sacred grove. And that’s just one part of their conservation work

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July 25, 2018
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When the rural elite hijacks welfare schemes

Although there are multiple factors that interfere with the fair implementation of rural welfare programs, it is important to break the stranglehold of the rural elite and often co-opted local administration

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