Author: TVW News India Bureau

When Dr Dinesh Kapadia decided to register for Covid vaccination in New Delhi, he met with fierce resistance from his wife and two children. The reason: at 72 years of age, they felt, Dr Kapadia was too old to risk the potential side-effects of the vaccine. Unable to convince his family, Dr Kapadia quietly got…

On February 26, barely hours before the Election Commission declared the schedule for the assembly election, Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) made the last of a string of ‘poll sop’ announcements. In a landmark waiver to retain the support of women, the mainstay of the AIADMK since the days of the late…

By 2050, at least 30 Indian cities will face a grave water risk, according to the WWF. The problems range from poor management of water sources, contaminated supplies, leaky distribution networks and vast volumes of untreated wastewater being poured into India’s rivers. NOT FLOWING, Delhi residents fill water containers from a municipal tanke In the…

Though Delhi occupies a privileged position in terms of water consumption, a daily average of 240 litres per capita, the highest in India, that statistic hides a grim reality. The capital’s raw water sources, primarily the Yamuna and groundwater, are insufficient to meet the demand. Put it this way: in 2019, Delhi had an average…

Sonu Ukey, a resident of Sangharsh Nagar, an underprivileged locality in Nagpur, says when she got married two years ago, she had heard horror stories from her mother-in-law about walking 2 km to fetch water from a public tap. Now, the 100-odd families here all have a separate tap outside their houses. “Sasubai (mother-in-law) says…

Located close the commercial city of Indore, Dewas saw rapid industrialisation in the 1970s and ’80s. Thanks to its favourable location, with a railhead and good access to raw materials, the town attracted several textile units, soybean processing plants and pharmaceutical plants. However, this boon turned sour in the following decades, from the 1990s onward,…

A micro-irrigation initiative partnered by the state is a win-win for farmers in all aspects Good earth, Bhikabhai More at his farm in Khoraj village, Gandhinagar Clusters of tiny plastic pipes snake around the neat rows of guava trees interspersed with musk melon plants at the five-hectare farm of Ramesh Bhai Bhikabhai More in Khoraj…

Usuma village in Cuttack district had for long witnessed frequent fights and even serious law and order issues over rights on the canal water coming from the Mahanadi river 15 km away. But not anymore. A successful ‘pani pan­chayat’ formed in 2000, comprising Usuma and nine other villa­ges and their 420 hectares of cultivable land,…

A third standard dropout, M. Shivashankar Reddy recalls sleeping on gunny bags in his childhood. Today, the 49-year-old grows pomegranate, musk melon, grapes and vegetables on the three parcels of land he owns in Parasannayapalli vill­age in Andhra Pradesh’s Ananthapuram district, earning Rs 3-4 lakh per acre. “We created 10 ponds across three parcels of…

“It’s a god-sent opportunity,” says N. Purushotham, 49, about how an assured supply of irrigation water has boosted his farming. Until 2017, there was just enough water to raise a single paddy crop a year on his two-acre farm in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district. But ever since the Pahalwan Talab in Shabad village was revived,…