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How these creches in Odisha help tribal mothers work in peace

To improve the health of tribal children and to help women collect forest produce without worrying about their young children, the Odisha government starts creches for toddlers.

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ओडिया आदिवासियों ने बच्चों के जन्म में अंतराल के लिए, त्याग दी परम्परा

बच्चों के एक के बाद एक, जल्दी-जल्दी जन्म के दुष्प्रभाव और कृषि और घरेलू कार्यों के तनाव, की दोहरी मार झेल रही ओडिशा की आदिवासी महिलाएं, गर्भ निरोधकों का उपयोग करने के लिए समुदाय के नियमों को तोड़ रही हैं

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Stigmatized Lodha tribe starts new life trajectory

Education and sports have helped the Lodhas, a particularly vulnerable tribal community that was forced to lead an excluded life because they were stigmatized as thieves, to increasingly join the mainstream

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Can a pointed pickaxe pierce a pearl?

There are formidable challenges in delivering welfare services to scattered and disenfranchised groups of people in rural India, and the government machinery is ill-equipped to deal with it

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Odiya tribes shed tradition to space out childbirths

Odisha’s tribal women, suffering the adverse health effects of childbirths in quick succession combined with strenuous agricultural and household work, are breaking community norms to use contraceptives

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Participation key to empowering Juang tribes

Treating Juang tribes of Odisha as participants in the development process rather than as recipients of development largesse will help bringing them into the national mainstream

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India’s bureaucracy has failed its forest dwellers

The country’s particularly vulnerable tribal groups, who live mostly in dwindling forests, have not been well served by the government’s administrative machinery, but have slowly been reduced to virtual serfdom