Visitors: 370 Author: Heera Lal, PCS Secretary UPNEDA Uttar Pradesh The persistent electricity shortage is a key bottleneck in sustainable growth of India. Our per capita consumption (778 KWH) is one of the lowest in the world as compared to world average 2600KWH. Approximately 80.9 million households are still to electrify. And 42 percent of […]
Visitors: 778Walter Hahn Founder – Coordinator, German Dalit Solidarity Platform. Founding Member, International Dalit Solidarity Network. Strong supporter of Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India In October 2008 the “Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India (CERI)” was launched in Dhaka with an international conference after a preparation phase of more than two years. CERI […]
Visitors: 428 John Szemerey FCIJ Former Chairman, International Committee, The Chartered Institute of Journalists London Chairman, International Advisory Board, Ground Report India Group Chairman, Honourary Editors Board, Ground Report India Group John is a political journalist, retired in summer 2005 after working over 30 years in the information services of the European Commission, Brussels. Most […]
Visitors: 417 It is at this historical juncture that this special edition of Ground Report India explores PES (Proportionate Electoral System) and CERI’s efforts before you. CERI is very grateful to Mr. Vivek Umrao Glendenning for this gesture towards Indian democracy. CERI is also thankful to all the writers who have contributed to bring out […]
Visitors: 567 Rajya Sabha, a place, where debate and discussion takes place. Conceptually, a place where one is framed with powers, responsibilities to act and influence. As per the Fourth Schedule (Article 80) of the Constitution, 12 persons, having special knowledge or practical experience in respect of such matters as literature, science, art and social service, […]
Visitors: 468Thank you very much for reading the current edition of The Ground Report India quarterly journal titled “Ground Efforts for Empowerment and Self-Sustainability of Tribal People”. I prefer to see things at the actual ground level. I try my best to keep my eyes and mind open to see things as they are, without corrupting […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityOm Prakash Chaudhary IAS, popularly called OP Chaudhary or OP, was appointed as the district collector in South Bastar (Dantewada) in the last week of March 2011. For about two months he was busy conducting elections for the vacant seat […]
Visitors: 1,159This article is based on the vision, efforts, struggle and achievements of a common tribal youth, who started to work when he was a teenager of just 15 years. This article does not follow the trend made by NGO business persons to project the paid employees of NGOs as the HEROES. This article is […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityDwarko Sundarani and Vivek, the chief editor of the Ground Report IndiaDwarko Sundarani, 90 years old, is a follower of Vinoba Bhave and has been serving the tribal and local communities in Gaya district of Bihar state for the […]
Visitors: 595by Dr Madeleine Florin, PhD In the second week of the month of April 2012 I was lucky enough to catch a brief glimpse of life in Chhattisgarh, mostly of Dantewada district. For transport, I hurtled around in the back seat of the well driven and well stocked car labelled “Press”. Again, I […]
Visitors: 2,753 In this exclusive ground report, I write about the models of self-sustainability established by Dr. Debal Deb, founder of the rice seed banks Vrihi and Basudha. Dr Deb has a PhD from the Calcutta University, West Bengal and post doctorates from the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Indian Institute of Science, […]
Visitors: 966Children are not a project liability for funds for the Nilanchal Seva Pratishthan (NSP). On my visit to the NSP, I observed and realised that NSP is a family home for children. NSP provides residential and non-residential education to tribal and non-privileged children of the Puri region in Odisha including orphans, blind, deaf and […]
Visitors: 839 Dr Prakash Tyagi follows in the footprints of his father to serve the tribal community of the Thar Desert. Nowadays there is a new tradition formed by NGO owners to handover the NGO to their children, even though these children never served the community or the NGO as volunteers. But Dr Prakash Tyagi […]
Visitors: 582 There is a breeze of NGOs sponsored tribal heroes in the media, on the internet and also social networking platforms for the Bastar region. Most of these sponsored heroes were or are paid employees of the NGOs working in this region. But Nandlal Baba is a young tribal person, who does not know […]
Visitors: 618 Bastar region of Chhattisgarh is a Maoist affected area thus without any doubt there are violations of human rights from either sides by government forces and Maoists. Human rights violations do not happen only by the government forces, they do happen by Maoists in the matter of common tribal people. It could be […]
Visitors: 1,210 The Marwar Education Foundation bought around 100 acres of barren land. This was a land with no grass, no trees but covered with salt. Varun Arya and his team from the Marwar Education Foundation took around seven years to treat this land with water harvesting structures and other natural treatments. At present, the land has 15 lakes of sweet water, […]
Visitors: 435 Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue (BIRD) is happy to announce that the 10th annual Rev. Dr. Stanley Samartha Memorial lecture will be delivered by Dr. David Frawley in Bangalore on 24 March 2012, . He will speak on “Pluralism and Universalism in Hinduism” BIRD, as you know, is a low profile organization formed […]
Visitors: 379 Krishnaraj Rao My wife and I belong to Ward no. 11 ‘Bansinagar-Tata Powerhouse’ in Borivli East, Mumbai. We had a good reason to vote ‘none of the above’ because our favoured party had not fielded a candidate, thanks to its seat-sharing arrangement with a chor party. Knowing that the Electronic Voting Machine […]
Visitors: 361 Krishnaraj Rao Mumbai, Maharashtra Yesterday, I saw a movie about a puppy named Bolt, who is conned into believing that he has super-powers that he uses for protecting the little girl who owns him. Midway through the movie, he realizes that he has no super-powers; he is just an ordinary, helpless puppy. He […]
Visitors: 417 Ground Report India wants to motivate young Indian journalists and non-paid ground social activists of rural, semi-urban and non-metro urban areas for thoughtful, visionary and accountable journalism / citizen journalism. If you as a journalist prefer to work on real ground to get sincere reports/articles/photos. You may earn money for your original reports,articles […]
Visitors: 341 New York, January 31, 2012 The Indian government should prosecute members of the security forces for recent high-profile cases of torture, to send a message that such practices will no longer be tolerated, Human Rights Watch said today. Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers, long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the border […]
Visitors: 349 Anoop Nobert A new ruling dispensation has started its tenure in the southern most state of India 8 months ago & it will be not be inappropriate to think about the state of Kerala. In fact, the backdrop of the various talks and deliberations about the Free Trade Agreements only makes it too […]
Visitors: 404For the past 20 years, more or less, I have been working, or have been associated with various known social personalities and media celebrities of social activism in India. These personalities include international awardees, mainstream political persons, RTI/RTF/RTE/ NREGA activists, activists who follow Gandhi’s ideology, organizations who pursue Gandhi’s ideology and others in India. […]
Visitors: 632Prof. Satish Kailash Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore Prof Monto Mani Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore Abstract: Many studies have warned that the alarming depletion of water table in many parts of India, unless urgently and effectively arrested, would be irreversible. This steep decline is traced to the over-exploitation […]
Visitors: 756Prof Willem Vervoort Associate Professor Hydrology Research Laboratory Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources The University of Sydney, NSW Australia Abstract Floods have a devastating effect on human lives and local economies, and therefore the traditional government risk management approach has been to reduce the occurrence probability of floods. As such, the […]