Beed: Close your eyes and imagine a Dickensian impoverished Indian village and you might find yourself in Kasodha, 28 kilometers from the unassuming Beed town in Marathwada. There are arid ridges of dry dirt over farmland, and it can take an hour and a half to cover 20 kilometers on unpaved roads. The only color … Read more
Lakshmi Tirupatamma has a ritual. On the first of every month, the 22-year-old grabs a bulging folder from her cupboard and her old workhorse of an Android phone before setting out on a familiar trek of 50 households. In her suburb of Navaluru, a peri-urban sprawl that sits at the edge of Guntur district in … Read more
The Bihar Caste Census (BCC) has been an eye-opener in many ways. Backward and marginalized communities together account for nearly 85% of Bihar’s population, higher than the government’s assumptions. Therefore, the new United People’s Party-BJP government needs to work harder than before to serve these communities. High quality PATNA, BIHAR, INDIA – AUGUST 12 JULY … Read more
Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution for a comprehensive household caste survey to provide socio-economic, educational, employment and other disadvantaged groups to Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and other disadvantaged groups. political opportunity. nation. The caste survey was one of the guarantees promised by the ruling Congress … Read more