Manipur, a hill state in north east India is facing one of it’s worst natural disasters: Flowering of bamboos.
Arunachal Pradesh government has drawn a hydropower policy which aims to build about a hundred dams to produce 56,000 MW.
The state has very high rate of migration: 25%. It also has 58% unemployment rate
India consumes around five million tonnes (mt) of plastic products every year.
In 2005, India ‘eliminated’ leprosy. But in rural belt, large number of leprosy cases go unregistered.
Violating the laws, rich landlords and corrupt officials continue to dupe poor families in Meghalaya.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) provides livelihood security to rural poor.
Atrocities on Dalit communities is one of the ugly realities of India that refuses to decrease.