DTE Coverage: Voting without voters

Down To Earth reports from four states on migrant voters and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections

Voting without voters: Migrant workers in Odisha’s Nuapada unable to afford trip home to cast ballot

About 75,000 workers in district are migrant labourers and 63,000 of them eligible voters

This young Odisha widow’s only crimes are poverty and finding love outside her caste

Remati did not get social sanction for her marriage while her husband was alive; now, she has no voter or Aadhaar Card and thus cannot access food,…

Paddy damaged due to poor rainfall, Nuapada farmers migrating out months earlier than usual

Mounting losses have forced farmers to accept advance money from contractors for work in other states

Monsoon 2023: Long dry spells in August lead to crop failure in western Odisha

Workers expected to migrate early this time, brokers start approaching people to work in brick kilns

Odisha Panchayat polls: Caught in a web of debt, exploitative labour only option for migrant villagers

Panchayat elections have little significance for migrant villagvers who won't be casting their votes

The seed banker: This Nuapatna farmer strives to save traditional paddy varieties

Bijaya Jhankar grows nine traditional varieties of paddy that have a longer harvest duration of 130-150 days

DTE Impact: COVID-19 coverage spurs action in Odisha's Nuapada

DTE’s reportage not only made the Nuapada administration spruce up healthcare facilities but also led to expatriate Odias in Japan sending help

Odisha’s Nuapada a snapshot of how COVID-19 is affecting rural India

Nuapada distrct experiences lack of oxygen, callous staff, a swelling number of infection cases and deaths and an administration in denial as …

Nuapada loved MGNREGA amid COVID-19 lockdown; what happened next?

Villagers who benefitted earlier shy away from jobs progamme as unpaid dues pile up since October 2020

मनरेगा से मिले रोजगार ने बदली बलांगिर की तकदीर

मनरेगा प्रोजेक्टस की कामयाबी से ओडिशा के लोगों को साल म�…

Jobs round the year: How MGNREGA made Balangir job-secure

The success of MGNREGA projects has made Odisha offer 300 days of guaranteed work a year to curb distress migration in this district

भारत के दुधारू पशुओं को शिकार बना रही है एक घातक महामारी

इसका देश पर विनाशकारी प्रभाव पड़ेगा, जहां अधिकांश डेयरी…

Lumpy skin disease: The deadly pandemic that has taken root among India’s bovines

This will have a devastating impact on the country, where most dairy farmers are either landless or marginal landholders and milk is among the …

इनके बिना कैसे लड़ा जा सकता है कोरोना से युद्ध

देश के स्वास्थ्य कर्मचारी एवं डॉक्टर्स कोरोना वायरस से…

ये हैं कोरोना से लड़ने वाले गुमनाम योद्धा

कोरोनावायरस के खिलाफ लड़ाई में भारत के 1.5 करोड़ सामुदायि…

कोविड-19: लॉकडाउन ने बिगाड़ी ग्रामीण भारत की दशा

कोरोनावायरस संक्रमण को रोकने में देश भर में एक साथ किए ल�…

Droughts: misery in slow motion

Successive droughts and water scarcity are causing long-term harm in ways that are poorly understood and inadequately acknowledged

Unpredictable weather, unreliable insurance, unbelievable profit to companies

Farmers across India suffered heavy losses when the monsoon turned out to be a non-starter. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the government'…

India simply does not acknowledge forest drought

Severe dry spells in Indian forests have hit the livelihood of more than 100 million people

Untimely January rain damages rabi crop, vegetables in Odisha’s Nuapada

The spell of winter showers affected the small and big farmers alike

COVID-19 wreaks havoc in Odisha’s Nuapada; families left destitute

Between April 1 and May 3, 87 people have died in the district bordering Chhattisgarh

COVID-19: Odisha villages tense amid returning migrants

Villagers now demand health check-ups of the returning workers