Worth a thousand words

Water resources of Andhra Pradesh is a coffee table atlas containing maps and graphs that can give one a quick heads up on the state’s foodgrain production, rainfall variation and deviation, floods and droughts along with other issues related to climate, physiography and land use.

Hanging by a thread

Shifting ground

Supreme Court refuses to lift stay on sand mining in Andhra Pradesh

The Supreme Court has refused to vacate the stay granted by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on sand mining in the state. While considering a bunch of special leave petitions (SLP) moved by the state government and others, the apex court directed the state government to approach the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to get clearance for sand mining in accordance with the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) notification.

A phone called coriander

Aadhaar card and rural mobile telephony are often seen as harbingers of change in rural India. Though the card is at an incipient stage, change is palpable. For plants at least. A coriander plant in rural Andhra Pradesh received its unique identification number and of course a card for itself with the photo of a mobile phone.

Microfinance institutions escape charge of abetting suicide of clients

In 2010, Andhra Pradesh witnessed a series of suicides. These were not cases of farmers' suicides—a regular occurrence in the state which continues to be in the grip of an agrarian crisis. The victims in these cases happened to be the poorest of the poor; most of them illiterate dalits and adivasis. The first information reports (FIRs) of the police reveal that most of the suicides were due to coercive loan recovery tactics adopted by the mighty microfinance institutions (MFIs), that had given these people a few thousands of rupees as loans.

Andhra Pradesh High Court firm on not lifting stay on sand mining

Path lab in a tablet

How did the idea about Swasthya Slate occur to you? Interviewee:  Kanav Kahol

Sand slips

Letters - April 30, 2012

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