With the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) failing to deliver employment in the taluk, people resort to moving to other cities to do private work. Shankaramma, an old woman in her late 60s from Madlapur expressed with grief that she only got 40 days of work in 2023. The agony is that […]
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Exposure to pesticides has resulted in more than 120 cases of organophosphate (OP) poisoning among farmers every month during the crop season. Water scarcity, a declared drought, and failed crops worsen the problem. Amidst this, the urgency for awareness of farmer welfare schemes, and access to adequate healthcare remains. In the sweltering heat of May, […]
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Girls in Sindhnur face significant challenges for pursuing higher education, other than forceful marriages, field laboring, social stigma in castes, economic crisis and lack of educational institutes are some of the factors. As the dawn breaks over the horizon, a girl named Narseema wakes up quietly to get ready by not waking up others in […]
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The unsuitable working conditions in the silk reeling industries led to increasing health issues like allergies and respiratory problem among the reelers. Shivam, 50 – years – old is a silk reeler in Ramanagara for almost 30 years now. He lives with his wife and four children in a house that is not completely built. […]
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Due to the poor bus service in the area, people in Yeldoddi Thanda who do not have their own vehicles wait for autos which are not frequent. People of Yeldoddi Thanda, a village which comes under the Kottadoddi Panchayat in Devadurga taluk, do not have access to public transport services. They have to make do […]
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Government schools in Manvi have fewer toilets overall, and the ones that exist are in such poor shape that they are unusable. Shattered doors, cracked ceilings, dirty commodes, neither water nor soap—that’s how the toilets in government schools of Manvi look. Most schools in Manvi taluk of Raichur have no clean or usable toilets. These […]
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Residents in the Mehbooba Slum lack proper sanitation facilities, as none of the houses have toilets, and the community toilet in the area is either locked or in an unclean condition. Lakshmamma gets up as early as 4 a.m. in order to stand in a queue before the community toilet in Mehbooba Slum in Sindhanur. […]
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The remaining 17 districts of Karnataka do not have district hospitals. They have either sub centres or taluk hospitals. Despite having 31 districts in the state, Karnataka just has 16 district hospitals. It has the second lowest district to district hospital ratio in India; right after Telangana which has 5 district hospitals for 33 districts. […]
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Due to Koppal’s dry land, its forest reserves have next to no non-timber forest produce. Chandragiri’s additional cashew plantations are an exception which no longer receives JFPM funds. The Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) funds in Chandragiri village used for fertilizers and irrigation are frozen as the Village Forest Committees (VFC) has been shut […]
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Lab-technicians at Primary Health Centers (PHC) in rural Karnataka are not getting salaries on a regular basis. By Swati Ekka Prakash, a lab technician in Sirwar complains of not receiving his salary on time. He said, “From the past three to four-year I am not getting monthly salary at the beginning of each month. Sometimes […]
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