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ASR Paddy Cultivation @10% Irrigation
The future of Paddy Cultivation is here... 1. Background Water scarcity has become a growing concern in several villages of Hathras district. Excessive irrigation in paddy cultivation often leads to water wastage and reduced groundwater levels. To address this...
Armed With Passion, Chintagarhi Pradhan Motiram Converted His Village into a Zero Water Outflow Village
गांव का पानी गाओं में Motiram is the Pradhan [Elected Village Head] of a small village Chintagarhi under the Chandgarhi Panchayat of Hathras Block. The village has only 119 households mostly resided by the socio-economically backward scheduled cast. The village mostly...
Krishaks Need Krishikas : For Naturalization of Agriculture
Krishaks [Sanskrit version of farmers] need Krishikas [the female companion of farmers] for the modern resource guzzling, toxic ridden farming sector to follow the path of naturalization that would ensure economically bright farm families and food and nutritional...
Self Reliance Through Vermi Composting
An Inspirational Journey of Babita: Self-reliance Through Vermi-Composting Backdrop Babita is an ordinary lady of Lalpur village whose life until recent was crippled with household responsibility and socio-economic challenges. A near total dependency on farming...
If you have your period then why hide it?
Narrated to Sonam by Bhavna of Baithankhurd village, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh About 4 months ago, Sonam Didi of an organization came to our village. She invited all the girls and women for a program. And told that this program is special only for women and girls. And in...
Rainwater Harvesting Using Defunct Dug Well – The Aged Well of Parsara
The Story of the Aged Well of Parsara Perhaps over one and a half decades have passed, even the villagers don’t remember correctly – this mammoth but defunct dug well in Parsara, one of the prominent villages of Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh is nothing...
Farmer’s Day Gift – Ending the Crisis in Agriculture
Is there really a crisis in agriculture? Newspapers reports of bumper crops year after year, MSP, loan waivers, tax & insurance benefits- create the impression of a strong support ecosystem. Failure, if any, would seem to be an individual failure and not a...
Ward Jal Rakshak (JR) Club – “Water for Peace”
Water scarcity is increasingly becoming a cause of inter user, interstate and International conflict. This is because water scarcity kills people - their health, prosperity, livelihoods and lifestyles. Water scarcity may well be...
Water For Peace
Of all the crises the world faces today, water scarcity is perhaps the most worrying. Water is essential to fulfil all our needs. Without water we cannot grow food, maintain hygiene, make homes, buildings, machines, computers...in short, no human activity can be done...
Participate in Plantation Drive and Win Rs. 5000!
Dear Jal Rakshaks Many thanks for your kind interest in becoming an environment saviour. As we all know the groundwater crisis is becoming worse every day. We blame everyone else but ourselves for the same. The time has come for each of us to take the initiative and...
Definitive Guide to Reduce Water Wastage
Reduce Wastage of Water – the 1st R of Water Conservation Every day we read about the shortage of water in India and many other countries. Niti Aayog in one of its reports has suggested that as many as 21 cities will run out of ground water as early as 2020. Such a...
Sustainable Solid Waste Management – A Case Study
FORCE won the 1st runner up prize at the recently held Case Study competition for NGOs by the National HRD Network and BIMTECH. We presented our Solid Waste Management initiative under the ITC Sunehra Kal Program at Saharanpur,...