Maharashtra

In what has come as respite amid rising medical expenses, a clinic at Mumbai’s Ghatkopar station is treating patients for a fee of Re1. The 12-hour outpatient ward of the clinic in Ghatkopar has three MBBS doctors and visiting MD specialists The clinic, a first-of-its-kind initiative by brothers Dr

Bhilar, a village located between the hill stations of Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani will soon be famous as it will become India’s first “village of books”. Maharashtra Minister for Culture Affairs and Marathi Language Vinod Tawde informed that 15,000+ books would be made available and placed at

We often here of how government schools are ill-equipped and the education being provided is so bad. But instead of just criticising this when one starts thinking of solutions changes do come. Today's Indian Express gives a story by its reporter Alifiya Khan, which talks of how the local community

1150 children were rescued by the railway police last year on the Central Railways’ Mumbai division. And out of these 1150 children Rekha Mishra came to the aid of 434 children. 32-year-old Rekha Mishra hails from Allahabad, comes from an Army family. Her father, Surendra Narayan, is a retired army

Grape Mundo, an Android mobile application developed by Rta Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Nashik-based software consultancy firm, is an open source app freely downloadable on Google Play Store This app helps farmers chalk out a schedule for application of inputs, based on best practices followed by

KADWANCHI’S 400-ODD farmers received 412 mm of rain in 2015-16, about 60 per cent of their average annual rainfall, but the cultivators weren’t unduly perturbed. For Kadwanchi village, located in arid Marathwada’s Jalna district, has witnessed a rare triumph. Even as neighbouring villages in drought

The Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, Shri Swadhin Kshatriya has conveyed to the Centre that the State will be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by March 2018. He said this in a meeting with the Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Parameswaran Iyer, in Mumbai, and mentioned

Read such an interesting story that could not resist posting it here so that more and more people come to know of this. And may be some one takes the lead to replicate this model in their area of operation. This story, by Madhushree Ghose and photos by Satish Bate, in the Hindustan Times is of a

This is a very inspiring story of a mother and a daughter who have become champion power lifters. The mother, Jyotika Patekar, 47, is an impoverished sandwich seller. She inspired her daughter, Vaibhavi, 17, to become a state-level power lifter. And, she herself, after a gap of 26 years, became a

Ekalavya Swavalamban Trust organised a Workshop for local ladies at its Gramotthan Resource Centre at Gargaon Wada, near Mumbai, in the First week of November after Dipawali. Shri Vikas Vichare and Smt. Gauri Vichare from Aurangabad who has been organising such workshop and have trained hundreds of

Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra shows what granting of community rights over forest produce can do to the lives of poor tribal people. And this was done after bamboo was re-classified as a 'grass' or 'minor forest produce'. After this is the time to provide training for making of bamboo craft

There could not have been a better farewell gift for Digambar Thak, driver of the Akola District Magistrate G. Sreekanth. This DM surprised the driver when he came to pick his boss to office from his residence. When Digambar came to the DM's house he saw a car decorated with flowers and when the DM