The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to grant ancestral property rights to unmarried fatherless granddaughters. The step would prove to be a major boost to gender equality in the state. An official spokesperson told the Hindustan Times, “In the UP Revenue Code (Amendment) Bill, 2018, amendments have been made in clauses 108 and 110 in the original act […]
As men are moving to towns and cities looking for better opportunities, women are looking after the farms abandoned by their men. On Wednesday many of these female farmers approached the government to seek the safety of their land rights. In India, women own disturbingly low percentage of land while doing two-third of the entire farm […]
In Odisha’s Nayagarh district, the tribal women of Gunduribadi village start their day with patrolling the nearby forest. Many of them survive on the forest for resources and livelihood, but face problems like theft of commercial timber and bamboo. Also, because of this exploitation, the ground water started depleting and eventually dried up, leading to […]
