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Nirmal Bharat Yatra, India’s biggest ever sanitation and hygiene mela, reaches its half-way point: Organizers reveal exciting new formats for the last three stops
Nirmal Bharat Yatra, India’s biggest sanitation and hygiene mela crosses 1000 kms across three states to generate awareness about sanitation issues. Posted on 12 Nov, 2012 12:29 PM

After 1,000 kms on the road crossing three states, organizers reveal exciting new formats for the last three stops of the Yatra

Sewagram, Maharashtra (Oct 3-5)

CORD invites applications for the Chinmaya Gramin Sevak Prashikshan, a course on integrated rural development at Sidhbari, Himachal Pradesh
Posted on 12 Nov, 2012 10:39 AM

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About the course

Chinmaya Organisation of Rural Development (CORD) would like to upscale its comprehensive integrated rural development work in remote rural areas of the country based on its 27 years of enriched and established work and learning in 550 villages of Himachal Pradesh and another 160 villages in its newer sites at Odisha and Tamilnadu. CORD envisages selecting  certain Panchyats for holistic development in the remote areas of the country from different districts and states. It plans to work intensively in the Panchyat selected for five to six years before expanding further.

To ensure people driven grass root transformation, CORD is looking out for inspired people from remote and backward districts of the country with leadership quality, willing to live and work in one of the Panchyats of his/her area and serve with their hands and heart. It could even be the village and Panchyat where he/she lives if it happens to fit in to CORD’s criteria of the Panchyat to be selected in the backward district.

It will be free, full time, one year residential course in Hindi with commitment to serve and work for CORD as full time paid employee in the remote rural district to which the candidate belongs on successful completion of the course.

Aaranyak is looking for two research scholars in climate change adaptation studies and NRM & ecosystem services - Apply by November 15, 2012
Posted on 12 Nov, 2012 12:05 AM

Aaranyak

About the organization and position

Aaranyak (A scientific and industrial research organisation of India) wants to engage two research scholars in two of its projects to be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Partha J. Das, Head, ‘Water, Climate and Hazard (WATCH) Programme’.

Aaranyak's mission is to foster conservation of biodiversity in Northeast India through research, environmental education, capacity building and advocacy for legal and policy reform to usher a new era of ecological security.

Job profile

Both the jobs require intensive field work in collaboration with local communities in the eastern Brahmaputra sub-basin comprising mainly eastern parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

Candidates who have shown proficiency in their subjects, love to take challenges, can work with communities, are skilled in writing reports in English and explore areas for future research will be preferred.

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - Segregation - the culprit - Menstrual hygiene training of teachers at Gorakhpur
Building integrated classrooms looks like a distant dream, when teachers themselves follow an unwritten code of segregation Posted on 11 Nov, 2012 11:56 PM

Boys sit here, girls sit there. A rule I grew up to as well, it seemed the easiest thing to do, back in school. Girls talk more and boys are irritating, who wants to sit with them anyway. We did talk to them. We had crushes on them and vice-versa.

India’s deepening water crisis : A report by Columbia University Water Center and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (2012)
This report is based on the preliminary survey of 27 water intensive industrial sectors and its impacts related to water climate risks Posted on 11 Nov, 2012 11:25 AM

This report  is by the Columbia University Water Center and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra at Uttar Pradesh -Training of teachers at Gorakhpur Block Resource Centre
This article describes the experience of the Nimal Bharat Yatra at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh Posted on 05 Nov, 2012 08:11 PM

Women folk

Ion Exchange to display high purity water solutions for the pharma industry at PMEC (2012)
Ion Exchange (India) Ltd. will display the INDION RO-EDI High Purity Water Generation and Distribution System at PMEC 2012, Hall 5, Stall L42, Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai Posted on 30 Oct, 2012 12:23 PM

Key features of the INDION RO-EDI:
• Fully pre-validated to industry accepted standards
• Packaged on single skid
• Hot water sanitization
• Fully functional FAT (factory acceptance test)
• Compliance with latest USP, Ph Eur, cGMP/cGAMP & ISPE specifications and design standards
• Fully automated with SCADA

Maharashtra mulls new social forestry policy in non-forest areas to improve greenery-Roundup of the week's news (October 22 - 28, 2012)
The news this week informs of the new social forestry policy in Maharashtra, illegal mining in Goa and the use of sewerage water to grow vegetables in Bangalore Posted on 29 Oct, 2012 10:36 AM

Maharashtra mulls new social forestry policy in non-forest areas to improve greenery