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Understanding Livelihoods on Ground Volume II 1 First Edition May 2020 Published By Livelihoods Team Price: Rs. 99 All rights reserved. [email protected] www.aksharakriti.org www.livelihoods.net.in www.7lcx.com 2 Dedicated to coexisting ourselves, all the beings flowing together -Akshara & Team 3 Walked / Walking 1. G Muralidhar 2. T. Venkateshwarlu 27. P. Madhusudhan 3. V. Aravind Kumar 28. G Madhu Vamsi 4. M Bhavya 29. Mansi Koushik 5. K. Chayadevi 30. P Mahesh 6. S. Laxman 31. D Narasimha Reddy 7. S. Mahidhar Reddy 32. Naval Shaini 8. K. Ramesh 33. G. Pulakeshi 9. G. Swathi 34. T Nirmala 10. T. Vina 35. LB Prakash 11. V. Ankith 36. M. Raja Srinivas 12. T Aparna Gayathri 37. S. Rekha 13. K. Bharathi 38. B. Ramya 14. G. Bhargava 39. B. Sai Srinivas 15. Bhima Shankar 40. M. Siddhardha 16. Chandranshu Gupta 41. K. Sridevi 17. Dharmendhar 42. Soumya 18. Glen Shewcheck 43. R. Swati 19. S. Himabindu 44. M. Vijaybhaskar 20. S. Janaki 45. K. Visweswara rao 21. K. Krishna Chaithanya 46. Gaargi Pachal 22. P. Kishore 47. Mahesh Patil 23. A. Uma 48. N. Sruthi 24. Krishnamurari 49. R. Anvitha 25. M. Lavanya 50. K. Pravallika 26. B. Madhusudhan 51. N. Vijaya 4 Acknowledgement We at Akshara would like to appreciate the efforts of all those who walked / walking with us. We would like to express our gratitude to the AKSHARA family for contributing content for articles, tools and supplements every month for the livelihoods monthly magazine for the last 13 years. We would like to thank all those who provided support, talked, read, wrote, offered comments and allowed us to quote their remarks and assisted us in editing, proof-reading and designing. The three volumes of “Understanding Livelihoods on Ground” contain articles, participatory tools, supplements and special supplements. We are grateful to all the grassroots people for providing their valuable time and energy for the articles. We thank all the anonymous contributors. We express our deepest gratitude to the readers who have been motivating us by sharing their valuable feedback. Finally, we are grateful to the universe for letting us be useful in our humble way. G Muralidhar Chief Mentor Akshara Livelihoods 5 Contents I. Sukshetra, Legendary and Other Efforts ...........................................................................................9 1. SDG India Index Baseline Report’18 ............................................................................................................. 11 1. Strategy for New India @ 75 - NITI Aayog ................................................................................................... 16 1. Global Environment Outlook – 6 ................................................................................................................... 20 1. Devadasi System ............................................................................................................................................ 24 1. Denotified Tribes ............................................................................................................................................ 28 2. Mahadalits ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 3. Persons Living with Unhygienic Occupations................................................................................................ 35 4. Migrant Workers ............................................................................................................................................ 38 5. Third Gender .................................................................................................................................................. 43 6. People Living with HIV/AIDS ....................................................................................................................... 47 7. Beedi Workers ................................................................................................................................................ 52 8. Refugees ......................................................................................................................................................... 55 9. Mining Workers.............................................................................................................................................. 59 10. Poor, Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups ............................................................................................... 63 11. Traditional Healers ..................................................................................................................................... 73 12. Tenant Farmers .......................................................................................................................................... 81 13. Pollution ..................................................................................................................................................... 88 14. Human Animal Conflict ........................................................................................................................... 100 15. Poultry ...................................................................................................................................................... 105 16. Khadi ........................................................................................................................................................ 112 17. White Revolution ..................................................................................................................................... 120 18. Green Revolution ..................................................................................................................................... 124 19. Blue Revolution ....................................................................................................................................... 129 20. SHG Movement in India .......................................................................................................................... 135 21. Persons with Disabilities Empowerment .................................................................................................. 144 22. Water Management .................................................................................................................................. 153 23. Lead India ................................................................................................................................................ 161 24. Ramakrishna Mission ............................................................................................................................... 164 25. Cooperative Movement ............................................................................................................................ 170 26. Community managed Digital Extension .................................................................................................. 176 27. Inland Waterways .................................................................................................................................... 180 28. Forest Rights ............................................................................................................................................ 184 29. Multi-Dimensional Poverty ...................................................................................................................... 189 30. Minimum Support Prices to Vegetables? ................................................................................................. 193 31. Channeling Superior Power ..................................................................................................................... 200 32. Policies for Elders .................................................................................................................................... 204 II. 7L and How to do? .................................................................................................................. 212 6 2. Producing Naturally ...................................................................................................................................... 213 3. Celebrating Life Naturally ............................................................................................................................ 219 4. ‘Shelters’ Naturally ...................................................................................................................................... 225 5. ‘Learning Naturally’ ..................................................................................................................................... 230 6. Role of Technology on Livelihoods and Linkages ....................................................................................... 235 7. Nurturing Leadership Traditionally .............................................................................................................. 238 8. Natural Livelihoods ...................................................................................................................................... 241 9. Handloom ‘Naturally’ .................................................................................................................................. 246 10. LINK‘AGES’ (SAMBHANDH) .............................................................................................................. 254 11. Flagship Programmes ..............................................................................................................................
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