The Broken Promises: Where’s the Scholarship?

Scholarship delays shatter dreams of rural students in Lingsugur, Karnataka.   The air hung heavy with the promise of another scorching day. The sun, a relentless white orb in the cloudless sky, cast Tawargera village in Karnataka dusty main road in a shimmering heat haze. Kavya, in a faded salwar kameez, stood at the bus […]

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Family planning: still a woman’s business

Experts say that people often prefer sterilization as a form of birth control due to its permanence and convenience, and a lack of awareness regarding other temporary methods. Amidst the scorching heat outside the Lingasugur Taluk Government Hospital, a group of women were huddled together in whatever shade they could find near the hospital. While […]

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Insufficient Teaching Staff Hinders Studies

Lingsugur taluk  lacks computer education for children The schools and colleges in the Lingsugur taluk lack  teachers, which in turn affects the students. The government Pre-university College had around 1000 students and for those 1000 students they had only eight teachers. Another high school, Akka Mahadevi Higher Primary School, had only 15 teachers for 503 […]

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