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Meghalaya Elections 2018

Vol. 53, Issue No. 11, 17 Mar, 2018
Patricia Mukhim

What pushed the National People’s Party to align with the Bharatiya Janata Party that has won only two assembly seats, is the ailment that afflicts all the governments of the small states of the North East. These special category states survive on central grants for as much as 90% of their requirement and are expected to raise the remaining 10%. They, therefore, need a friendly government at the centre.

Meghalaya Elections 2018: A Repeat of 2008

Vol. 53, Issue No. 10, 10 Mar, 2018
What pushed the National People’s Party to align with the Bharatiya Janata Party that has won only two assembly seats, is the ailment that afflicts all the governments of the small states of the North East. These special category states survive on 90% of central grants and are expected to raise the “matching” grants of 10%. They therefore need a friendly government at the centre.

Energy, Gender and Social Norms in Indigenous Rural Societies

Vol. 52, Issue No. 1, 07 Jan, 2017
Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan, Patricia Mukhim, Rosemary Dzuvichu

Studying women’s work and energy use through field studies in Khasi communities in Meghalaya and Angami communities in Nagaland, the links between energy use and women’s work and leisure are explored. It is found that the choice of energy source is closely linked with women’s participation in the management of energy resources, their opportunities to earn incomes, and their ability to negotiate the cultural and social norms of their communities. Energy planning cannot stop with the provision of household access to electricity or liquefied petroleum gas. A new deal for women in the energy sector is delineated, which relates to overcoming sociocultural limits and increasing the opportunity cost of women’s labour and their right to assets.

Floods in the North-East

Vol. 49, Issue No. 42, 18 Oct, 2014
Patricia Mukhim

Although India has 175 flood forecasting stations and 140 more new flood forecasting stations are in the pipeline in the Twelfth Plan, we do not seem to have improved our performance on the ground in terms of saving lives and property. The most recent flood in Assam claimed 44 lives and massive loss of property and livelihood. A more proactive citizenry too is required to monitor the government's anti-flood strategy. It was also telling that the national media gave scant space and air time to this tragedy in the North-East, which is forever on the periphery.

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