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Health and Hygiene
The indigenous doctors and Healers of Chhattisgarh
Knowledge and a respect for ecology still enables the local traditional healers to ensure immense faith and following by Chhattisgarh folk.
Environment and Ecology
Organic farming gathers steam in the Sundarbans
The training at the Knowledge Centre is now modified to weave in local knowledge to make it rooted in ground realities.
Economics and Technologies
Guwahati now has India’s first solar Powered railway station
The solar-powered station is aimed at reducing carbon-footprint as well as cut down power costs drastically.
Livelihoods
An ancient art is earning modern dividends in Khasi Hills
"Their organic dyes and processing methods have now become an area of study and research for design students”
Food and Water
‘Seed bags’ to promote indigenous varieties in Agency
As many as 170 farmers in three of Andhra Pradesh's districts will take up sowing diverse seed varieties in half-acre of land each in kharif 2018.
Livelihoods
Women coconut pluckers set to scale new heights
Representatives of the Angamaly block panchayat hope the initiative will not only help empower women in the local body but also offer them jobs
Learning and Education
உயிரைக் கண்டுபிடித்த குழந்தைகள் (in Tamil)
புவிதம் - இந்த பூமியின் மீதும், எதிர்கால மனிதத்தின் மீதும், எல்லா உயிர்கள் மீதும் அக்கறைகொண்ட பள்ளிகளில் ஒன்று.
Food and Water
Karnataka: Tradition to the rescue
“The rejuvenation of tanks and kalyanis has helped in changing the landscape in a big way. Tanks of the district are still full of water."
Environment and Ecology
The Ficus in the Tea: The fight for the lonely atti maram (fig tree)
Other than a tiger, almost all the other large mammals in the region were seen under the lone fig tree!