OrganiC AaharaM for Meerut
ON June 12, Meerut got its first retail outlet selling organic food. Called OrganiC AaharaM, it has been launched by the Janhit Foundation so that local farmers can reach consumers directly. The outlet is located at DC-7, Shastri Nagar, birthplace of 1857, the First War of Independence.
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Slum wins toilet war
IN the vicinity of Old Hyderabad’s Charminar a basti called Bandi ka Adda recently won a battle against the municipality to hold on to its only toilet, which real estate developers wanted demolished. So successful was the basti that it became the role model for another basti by the name of Jagdish Huts that has managed to get a drain for itself.
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100 hawkers make their own mall
IT was November 1996. The Left Front government had launched Operation Sunshine to evict hawkers from the city’s pavements. A bitter battle was raging between hawkers and a government determined to see the last of them. Sudeb Pal, a hawker on the Gariahat road pavement,
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Santhals reject mining for organic farming
BIRBHUM district’s Mallarpur region is a vast stretch of barren land, unlike the rest of West Bengal which is so green. It is the nucleus of the stone-crushing industry that lies on the borders of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand. As you travel along dusty roads, you see massive crushing units and quarries.
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Teaching women to earn
TO many, the name Ankur Kala suggests empowerment of marginalised women. A brainchild of Annie Joseph, Ankur Kala was set up in 1982. Joseph spent many years in community development. She studied social work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and worked as a volunteer with Seva Sangha Samiti in Howrah.
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Fruits, farms thrive in Arunachal
ARUNACHAL Pradesh is emerging as India’s budding fruit paradise. It is on the threshold of outshining even Himachal Pradesh, long revered as the land of orchards. If the apple was Himachal’s money spinner, the kiwi fruit is becoming Arunachal’s mascot, fetching much more money than the apple ever did.
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