Wardha District
Women hold the key to water for food security and nutrition
Posted on 01 Jul, 2019 12:34 PMThe water sector remains male dominated at different scales, from engineers and technocrats responsible for designing irrigation systems, to upper caste and upper class men who decide on the location of canals, borewells, tanks, and other water systems at the grassroots level.
How Kakaddara village won water cup
Posted on 19 Feb, 2018 06:33 AMEvery year, thousands of villages in Maharashtra get affected by droughts. Experts say that the reasons for recurrent droughts include a lack of policy framework, technical knowledge and community participation as well as poor implementation of government programmes.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra at Wardha - Bappu’s India - Mahatma Gandhi’s model of a toilet
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 12:35 AMAs I get down from the auto that I hired for the day to take me from my hotel in Wardha to Mahatma Gandhi's ashram where he spent the last days of his life, I wasn't quite prepared for what lay ahead of me and the feelings that would hit me from then on.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - The week that was - Part II
Posted on 13 Oct, 2012 12:02 AMOctober 3 – Making our way into the ground, we saw an all-night effort of the workers on site. The venue was prepped-up, workers were busy putting finishing touches – wiping the chairs of excess water, laying carpets on the ground, hanging fluorescent balloons in bunches on poles, near stalls and game pens.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - Wardha - The week that was
Posted on 12 Oct, 2012 08:33 PMSeptember 30th - The skies poured out the day we were to leave for Nagpur. The morning shower felt like a blessing. Thankful, but sceptical of the weather, our biggest concern was whether the rains would follow us. In Nagpur, the moment we stepped out the heat hit us. Clear skies welcomed us and for that we were grateful.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - My Yatra Your Yatra Our Yatra - Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister, Rural Development inaugurates the event from Bapu’s Wardha
Posted on 08 Oct, 2012 11:47 AM5 Oct 2012, Helipad Ground, Wardha, Maharashtra.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - Stop 1- Day 1 in Wardha - Rain washed our tents, but not the Great WASH Yatra
Posted on 03 Oct, 2012 08:08 PM3rd October 2012, Wardha, Maharashtra.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - Stop 1 -"We don’t talk about it at all !" The taboo of menstruation in rural Maharashtra, a major deterrent in achieving menstrual hygiene
Posted on 02 Oct, 2012 05:40 PMPriyanka, 13 and a chirpy adolescent girl studying in a government school in a village called ‘Rohini Gaun’ 25 kms from Wardha in Maharashtra blushes and says, "We don’t talk about it at all!".
India Water Portal invites applications for Fellows for The Great WASH Yatra
Posted on 22 Aug, 2012 03:38 PM
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India Water Portal is an open, inclusive website that shares knowledge and resources on water, sanitation, agriculture, the environment, climate change, ecology and related themes and issues in India. The Portal is managed and coordinated by Arghyam, a non profit organisation that works in water and sanitation in India.
India Water Portal is partnering with a host of other NGOs for The Great WASH Yatra, a traveling carnival with WASH (WAter, Sanitation & Hygiene) themed rides, games and performances that will travel from Bihar to Gujarat from October 2nd to November 19th 2012. Along the way the Yatra will journey to 8 locations in 5 states, culminating in a closing event in on World Toilet Day on November 19th 2012.
Status of groundwater in Wardha: A report from the Central Ground Water Board
Posted on 13 Aug, 2009 10:30 AMThis report from the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) deals with the status of groundwater in the Wardha district of Maharashtra.