‘Green’ electricity for Bihar villages

N. Gopal Raj, The Hindu: 24/11/2009

Some seven years ago, two young men, chums from their days at boarding school, chatted over the Internet about what they might do for villages in their home state of Bihar. The company they went on to create has begun establishing small power plants driven by gases from rice husk, a widely available agricultural waste. There are big plans for the future.
From the very beginning, “we wanted decentralised productio… Continue

India needs to make mass secondary education system a reality, says new World Bank report


Secondary education critical to breaking inter-generational cycle of poverty, with huge beneficial impacts on health, marriage age, fertility rates, and child rearing practices

NEW DELHI, October 6, 2009 ─ India needs to equip the 12 million young people who join its labor force every year with higher levels of education and skills to be able to access better-paying jobs, and to benefit fro… Continue

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Self-help strategies come to the rescue in difficult times

M.J. PRABU, The Hindu, 09.07.2009

“UNLESS agricultural policies aim at making farmers, particularly women, financially self reliant, the nation cannot achieve its goal of sustainable food security… Continue

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I would like to attract the attention towards the incident happened in Lalgarh, WB. I feel its the result of discriminative attitude of state govt and non implementation of programs that would improve the life standard of the people of Lalgarh. Rs 1000 fine on helping police clearly shows the economical status of the area. Its definitely a political problem and needs more focus on rural development issues.