Author: ABSSS

Traditionally, Bundelkhand is not known as a major vegetable production region. Cultivation of vegetables for sale in market and generation of income has been restricted to a few locations, such as Newari block of Tikamgarh…

Many PACS Programme CSOs and community based organisations initiated under the programme have successfully battled corruption at different levels. One of the most challenging campaigns relates to corruption in a handloom cloth production centre at…

In February 2006 Banda district in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh witnessed an unprecedented event. Starting from Nahri gram panchayat in Naraini block, around 500 people, including around 80 women, marched over three days…

An imaginary line divides the Kols, a tribal group with a population of around 3 lakhs living in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Kols living in north-eastern Madhya Pradesh enjoy the…

Twenty years old and single, Kesarbehn is the youngest member of a unique grassroots organisation in Bundelkhand: the Patha Kol Adhikar Manch. She starts her working day at 6 a m when she leaves her…

Incomplete bridges and roads; public hospitals without doctors or medicines; schools without teachers. These are familiar sights in Uttar Pradesh. They are symptoms of poor governance and a weak civil society. Economists Jean Dreze and…