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By: admin 18 Oct 2021
Hand-wash hygiene adoption in Rural India
- Rural Development
The COVID pandemic outbreak has brought back into focus the often-neglected practice of handwashing. With several water management programs and...
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By: admin 24 Sep 2021
Universal Education – Reaching out to Rural India
- Rural Development
“Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible” ~ Swami Vivekananda Education in rural India is a catalyst to improve...
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By: admin 21 Sep 2021
Women Leaders Contribute to Better Health Services
- Uncategorized
- Women Empowerment
“Only when women wield power in sufficient numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women.” ~ Anne-Marie Slaughter,...
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By: admin 7 Sep 2021
Micro-irrigation for agriculture and sustainable development
- Agriculture
You Don’t Know Its True Worth Until It’s Gone. Save Water. Despite agriculture’s share dipping to about 17 percent, the sector...
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By: admin 6 Sep 2021
Water-Management structures enable groundwater recharge
- Water
India consumes the largest amount of groundwater in the world. It is home to the largest tube wells in the world as well. Most of the water is used...
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By: admin 3 Sep 2021
Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices
- Agriculture
Though India technically is not an agrarian economy, with agriculture contributing only 20% to the GDP, almost 60% of its population depends on it...
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By: admin 27 Jul 2021
Tryst with Destiny Part 2: Enhancing Food Security through Good Seeds, Soil, Water Efficiency, and Empowerment
by Dr. Suri Sehgal In Part 1 of Tryst with Destiny, I said we must “streamline an aggressive implementation of the 4 S’s to double the...
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By: admin 27 Jul 2021
Tryst with Destiny: “Everything else can wait, but not agriculture”~Prime Minister Nehru
by Dr. Suri Sehgal In 2016, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government set a highly ambitious target of Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) by...
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By: admin 22 Jul 2021
Addressing the digital divide in education: Tackling rural accessibility
- COVID19
The COVID pandemic changed the way we looked at education worldwide. The crisis prompted governments to shut down schools and universities to protect...
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By: admin 22 Jul 2021
Significance of traditional water management systems in water security
- Water
UN-Water defines water security as “The capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality...
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By: admin 19 Jul 2021
Can creating healthy soil transform agriculture and feed the world?
- Agriculture
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Since more than 90 percent of the food...
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By: admin 8 Jul 2021
Women’s Empowerment in Rural India
- Women Empowerment
Table of Contents Overview Gender Disparity In Rural India Goals for Women Empowerment In India Role of WER Role of The Top Rural NGO in India FAQs...
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By: admin 5 Jul 2021
Sustainable Agricultural Water Management: The need of the hour
Water is the most critical resource for development. The effects of this resource can be felt not only in agriculture, but in areas such as...
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By: admin 29 Jun 2021
Harmful algal blooms: Cyanobacteria, dinoflagellate organisms
- Climate Change
By DR. SURI SEHGAL – | Oct 27, 2020 At this time of the year, South Florida is often threatened with either blue-green algae or red algae...
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By: admin 29 Jun 2021
Mangroves: The first line of defense
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
By DR. SURI SEHGAL – | Sep 29, 2020 Those of us who live on islands realize the threat of sea level rise (SLR) to our homes. We also know that...
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By: admin 29 Jun 2021
Sea level rise: Warming seas, melting glaciers
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
By DR. SURI SEHGAL – | Nov 3, 2020 As the ocean water warms, the sea level rises, and the water from melted glaciers leads to further rising....
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By: admin 29 Jun 2021
Coronavirus Origin
- COVID19
By DR. SURI SEHGAL Many of us had assumed that the controversy on the origin and spread of coronavirus had died down, but apparently it is not so. I...
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By: admin 31 May 2021
Economic Potential of Small Farm Mechanization
- Agriculture
Mechanization is a crucial factor in agriculture that helps in optimum utilization of inputs and increases productivity. Mechanization also results...
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By: admin 19 May 2021
Soil health and nutrient management for better crop yields
- Agriculture
Soil, the acronym soul of infinite life, has undergone overexploitation in order to feed a vast population, creating an urgent need for corrective...
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By: admin 29 Apr 2021
Green Buildings Improving Health and Productivity of Employees
- Green Building
Recently at the Climate Summit, US President Joe Biden promised to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions to at least 50 percent by 2030. Indian Prime...
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By: admin 2 Apr 2021
Technology makes life easier
- Outreach for Development
By Sonia Chopra Technology is ever-changing. Digital communication technologies connecting people across the globe have become easier and faster....
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By: admin 24 Mar 2021
Water harvesting – An ancient tradition, must for each village
- Water
“Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls.”~ Narendra Modi (Prime Minister, India) As a resource, water is a gift of nature that is most...
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By: admin 4 Dec 2019
Financial Literacy–Empowering Lives
- Education
- Transform Lives
By Dhruv Singh Chauhan My perception of financial literacy in India changed completely when I had the opportunity to intern with S M Sehgal...
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By: admin 1 Oct 2019
New areas of collaborative research
- Research
Two University of Iowa engineers visit Sehgal Foundation in India Partnership background The University of Iowa (UI), located in an agricultural...
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By: admin 3 Sep 2019
How Water-Rich Are We?
- Water
By Arti Manchanda Grover Conversations these days with my five-year-old daughter around using water judiciously, such as not leaving the tap open...
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By: admin 29 Jul 2019
An Inspiring Internship Experience
- Interns' Speak
An old adage says, “A vision without action is merely a dream.” I’ve always been intrigued by social enterprise ideas and their impact on the...
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By: admin 23 May 2019
Let us strengthen democracy together
- Local Participation and Sustainability
By Arti M. Grover Often during the way to my office, I ask my cab driver to switch off the FM radio. The reason is because I was overwhelmed with the...
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By: admin 29 Apr 2019
How long will schoolchildren be without safe drinking water?
During my orientation program after joining the Sehgal Foundation team, my visit to the government middle school at village Banarasi, district Nuh,...
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By: admin 26 Oct 2018
Achieving Sustainable Development for India: Fostering Partnerships
- SDGs
- Partnerships
As the largest democracy in the world, India is an important partner in defining and the achieving a world development agenda. India’s...
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By: admin 30 Aug 2018
Life on the road: The fading oral tradition of Behrupiyas
- Outreach for Development
By Sonia Chopra Their lives move on roads, they go wherever work is available, set up their hamlets, and live. They are not homeless, but they have...
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