SJC by Aniket Kate: In the last decade, over 2000 farmers per year have committed suicides in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. It is a sad and complex situation. The SJC focused on:
1. Statistics and reasons behind farmer suicides in Vidarbha.
2. State and Central governmental relief packages and their failures
3. Suggestions by various NGO studies
4. A discussion on agrarian crisis in general, and possible solutions
SJC by Anshuman Gupta on Feb 17th 2007 at San Diego
The Timbaktu Collective is a registered voluntary organisation that was initiated in 1990, to work for sustainable development in the drought prone Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Today the Collective has a team of 60 members and works in about 100 villages of Chennekothapalli, Roddam and Ramagiri mandals of Anantapur district, serving about 30,000 marginalised people.
Mar 10, 2008: Niraj Sinha
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, India
Two years of NREGA
Feb 25, 2008: Sarvagya Upadhyay
Human Trafficking, Sex Workers and Their Plight