Madhya Pradesh

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October 15, 2024
Does MSW help get a job in the development sector?

In June 2024, I completed my master’s in social work (MSW) from a college in Bhopal district, Madhya Pradesh. And now that I am entering the social sector job market…

Workers with a tractor cleaning lantana_lantana
September 12, 2024
Adivasis tackle an invasive plant in Madhya Pradesh

In Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district, the spread of the lantana (Lantana camara) plant is causing a shortage of traditional foods for Adivasis and forcing them to migrate for employment. The…

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August 8, 2024
Why forest guides at Pench want a better rostering system

I have been working as a forest guide for seven years at the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district. My husband also works at the reserve as a…

informal settlements and shanties next to a railway line-bhopal
July 30, 2024
Homeless and forgotten: Bhopal’s gas tragedy survivors struggle for shelter

On December 22, 2022, the Railways and the district administration of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, demolished 250 illegal houses built on the railway land near the Union Carbide factory. Till now,…

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December 7, 2023
Migrants keep the Maheshwari saree tradition alive

The tradition of weaving in Maheshwar town in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district owes its origins to Queen Ahilyabai Holkar, who is said to have employed skilled artisans from the Maaru…

farmer standing next to solar panels on his farm-government
September 21, 2023
The PM-KUSUM pipe dream: Farmers lose faith in the solar scheme

In February 2019, the Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) scheme to reduce environmental pollution and double farmers’ incomes. The scheme allows…

Adivasi people showing IFR papers--land rights
August 8, 2023
Congratulations, but no rights: Claiming land in Madhya Pradesh

Ratan Singh farms on eight acres of forest land in the Lamaniya village of Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh. The land has been part of his family for generations, and his…

A JCB loading materials into a truck at a mining site--mining in Bhopal
June 22, 2023
Mining and anaemia: A health crisis in rural Madhya Pradesh

Kulwant Bai is a resident of Acharpura village, located approximately 20 km from Bhopal city. For a long time now, she has suffered from a sore throat. When she visited…

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