Knowledge Apr 4, 2019 10 min read

Artificial Intelligence in Indian Agriculture

Introduction In India, the agriculture and the allied sector contributes less than 17% to its US$ 3 trillion economy today (Sunder, 2018). Average annual farmer incomes remain abysmally low at ₹77,976 (or...

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Knowledge Nov 13, 2018 12 min read

Stubble Burning in Haryana

Haryana, situated in the basin of major perennial river systems, has been a dominant agricultural economy since its inception in 1966. The incessant push toward its agricultural sector, led by the Green...

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Knowledge Oct 27, 2018 8 min read

Sports, A Way of Life

The sustainability of being an athlete in any state is the cornerstone of encouraging a culture of sports. If being a sportsperson comes with the securities available in other sectors – in...

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Knowledge Oct 26, 2018 11 min read

‘Not Just’ Paying the Price

That the average Indian farmer grapples with issues of climatic and economic uncertainty has been a well-established characteristic of Indian agriculture, efforts to address her economic security remain far and few between....

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Knowledge Oct 25, 2018 6 min read

Watering Down

With an annual use of 230 cubic kilometres of underground water, India is the largest consumer of groundwater in the world (World Bank, 2012). More than 60 percent of irrigated agriculture and...

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Knowledge Oct 16, 2018 13 min read

Peeling the Gender Onion

During the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, the Beijing Declaration committed participating governments to ‘encourage men to participate fully in all actions towards equality.’ As the male remains dominant...

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Knowledge Oct 6, 2018 12 min read

War of Waters

Water forms the basis of life. Water disputes between man-made geographical boundaries have a serious bearing on this fundamental human need. The water-conflict chronology developed by the Pacific Institute indicates conflicts on...

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Knowledge Oct 4, 2018 9 min read

No Country for the Sick

Cancer to kill 9.6 million people in 2018 According to WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, 2018) the global cancer burden is estimated to have risen to 18.1 million new...

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Knowledge Sep 28, 2018 2 min read

एस.वाई.एल. नहर पर तैरती राजनैतिक नौका

1960 के दशक से शुरू हुई हरित क्रांति ने भारत को खाद्यान्न की कमी वाले देश से अधिक खाद्यान्न उत्पादक देश में तबदील कर दिया। इस क्रांति का सबसे ज्यादा फायदा उठाने...

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Knowledge Sep 19, 2018 9 min read

Fly Ash Production and Utilisation in Haryana

Combustion of coal in thermal power plants generates fly ash – fine particles of burned fuel emitted from boilers. Fly ash is known to cause groundwater pollution. Due to its light-weight, it...

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Knowledge Sep 14, 2018 1 min read

बीमार फ़सल बीमा योजना

प्रधानमंत्री फ़सल बीमा योजना जिन कमियों को दूर करने के उद्देश्य से चलाई गई थी खुद उन्हीं व्यवस्थागत कमियों के कारण बीमार हो चुकी है। इस योजना का लक्ष्य 2018-19 तक 50प्रतिशत...

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Knowledge Sep 14, 2018 8 min read

Dumping Garbage Dumps

No amount of symbolic sweeping of roads by people is enough to address the environment and health crisis of unmanaged waste in India. The garbage so collected is simply dumped at a...

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Knowledge Sep 12, 2018 11 min read

Finding Worth in Waste

Households, industries and agricultural fields discard a wide variety of solid waste. This includes plastics, metals, electronics, crop residue, biomedical and construction waste. Collection, treatment, and the safe disposal of this waste...

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Knowledge Aug 27, 2018 7 min read

Premier Athletes, Pitiable Infrastructure

Haryana is considered to be India’s mine for medals. With barely 2% of India’s population, athletes from Haryana bagged over 40% of the gold medals won by Indians in the 2010 Commonwealth...

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Knowledge Aug 27, 2018 7 min read

The Price of Blood

According to a recent report by Chen and Kiefer (2018), at least 500 million women and girls globally lack adequate facilities for MHM. UNICEF estimates that barely half of the adolescent girls...

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