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April 26, 2019

Overcoming odds, women sought help under bank linkage program and took to turkey rearing as a viable livelihood (Photo by Dhruba Das Gupta)

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Bengal women find viable livelihood in turkey

Overcoming hurdles and non-starter self-employment projects, members of women self-help groups persisted tenaciously and took to rearing turkeys, setting a successful livelihood trend

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November 7, 2018

Faced with insufficient farm income and mounting debts, Nahar Singh, a marginal farmer of Kharodi in Haryana, works often as a daily wage worker (Photo by Prasanna Mohanty)

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Debts drive breadbasket farmers to daily wage labor

With farm income failing to keep pace with their debts, a large number of small and marginal farmers in Punjab and Haryana have started supplementing household earnings through daily wage labor

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Child marriages meet resistance in rural India

Although India still has a long way to go to abolish child marriage, girls and their parents in many villages across the country are taking a stand against this traditional practice

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Cost of women bathing in the open

There is a need to provide secluded bathing spaces to women in India’s villages, who pay a high cost in terms of health and personal hygiene as they are compelled to bathe hurriedly in the open

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Women leaders come to the fore in Jharkhand

Village women in various parts of Jharkhand are breaking the shackles of patriarchy by excelling in activities traditionally led by men and by taking on a leadership role in local governance

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Women use mobile phones to maintain land records

Over half a million women, trained to access and maintain their land records through mobile phones, have learned to complete documentation, so that they are registered as owners

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Demonetization and rural India

Although the impact of the sudden recall of high-value currency notes in November was felt across the country, rural wage laborers, vegetable growers and fishing communities were particularly affected due to the scarcity of banknotes

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