Student distress is an increasingly recognised concern, poignantly reflected in the rising instances of student suicides across institutions of higher learning in India. Despite institutional mechanis...
ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS, BIODIVERSITY
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced plans to reduce the Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) to one km as opposed to the current 10 km. The state government’s intention has raised con...
Glaw Lake was recently designated as Arunachal Pradesh’s First and India’s 101st Ramsar Site. It is located within the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary. It hosts diverse flora and fauna sp...
Economic distress, coupled with social isolation and remoteness of location often leads to farmers committing suicide in India. Based on a nation-wide survey the paper outlines how rich farmers, as...
The rainfed areas have remained in the margins of India’s growth trajectory. Despite measures to address the crucial concern of farming practices in the region, policymakers have largely been unable t...
Rural diversification has a strong linkage with rural livelihood. In the last three decades, rural employment has seen a shift from the farm sector to non-farm sectors. The structure and pattern of t...
Economic distress, coupled with social isolation and remoteness of location often leads to farmers committing suicide in India. Based on a nation-wide survey the paper outlines how rich farmers, as opposed to the poorer ones, are able handle agricultural indebtedness from alternate sources of income.
The rainfed areas have remained in the margins of India’s growth trajectory. Despite measures to address the crucial concern of farming practices in the region, policymakers have largely been unable to devise a long-term strategy to uplift the region’s shackled agricultural growth.
Rural diversification has a strong linkage with rural livelihood. In the last three decades, rural employment has seen a shift from the farm sector to non-farm sectors. The structure and pattern of transition is towards casualisation—increase in daily wage earners rather than regular wage earners.
