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UDAN helps unemployed tribal youth become skilled masons

Young women and men from tribal habitations learn masonry to chart out new careers with higher incomes in the construction sector. KNOW MORE

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Higher yields and incomes at lower costs of cultivation for Kantabania farmers

Farmers in Kantabania village adopted the Improve Package of Practices for rice cultivation thereby increasing yields and incomes at lower costs. KNOW MORE

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Nutrition gardens enable dietary diversity while conserving water

Two years back, Saraswati started growing vegetables in her kitchen garden. Now, the surplus produce sold in the local market helps her earn extra to support her family. KNOW MORE

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Farmer Producer Company transforms the lives of marginal farmers

Membership in a farmer producer company helps small farmers to move beyond subsistence farming, and earn better from farming. KNOW MORE

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Community Champions enable safe and dignified migration in rural Odisha

A network of Community Champions support safe and dignified migration for migrant workers from remote villages in Kalahandi, Odisha. KNOW MORE

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Higher yields and incomes at lower costs of cultivation for Kantabania farmers

Farmers in Kantabania village adopted the Improve Package of Practices for rice cultivation thereby increasing yields and incomes at lower costs. READ MORE

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Tukutoli village first gets tap water and now grows vegetables using greywater

Families in Tukutoli village in Gumla, Jharkhand, once suffered from diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera. Open defecation was prevalent, there were few sources of safe water and an acute water shortage in summer. Today, every household in the village has a toilet and a bathing room (TBR), and piped water supply.

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Higher yields and incomes at lower costs of cultivation for Kantabania farmers

Farmers in Kantabania village adopted the Improve Package of Practices for rice cultivation thereby increasing yields and incomes at lower costs.

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Kandhabanta village makes contaminated water potable

Kandhabanta village led a community initiative to reduce health risk from water-borne diseases and ensure zero wastage of water from the household pipes.

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Lunugundi brothers earn better through mobile phones, motorcycles and better farming practices

Magatha Pradhan and Upendra Pradhan, two brothers from Lunugundi village, use technology applications to learn farming techniques to grow vegetables in summer, avoid middlemen to sell directly in the market and earn better incomes.

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Cyclone Titli affected villages build back livelihoods with support from Gram Vikas and UNDP

Gram Vikas is partnering with UNDP to support livelihoods rehabilitation in Cyclone Titli affected villages. A total of 1350 households across 55 villages in Gajapati and Ganjam districts of Odisha, will be helped to build resources that will aid long-term reconstruction. Women and livelihoods prioritised by them will receive primary support. The severe tropical cyclone, […]

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Relief kits, food and community mobilisation for immediate restoration post Cyclone Fani

The Gram Vikas Fani Response Team is on the ground distributing early relief kits and necessary supplies.

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Pramila Bisoi, India’s leader from Aska, Odisha

Pramila Bisoi had a resounding victory in the 2019 elections. She has been leading Gram Vikas’ work for over two decades now and setting the agendas right – water, toilets, land, women.

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Opinion | How can civil society institutions preserve and promote India’s constitutional values?

Vijay Mahajan critically analyses the work on sanitation in the country to compare how constitutional values are upheld by the civil society institutions vis-à-vis the government.