Flood and Covid-19 became a potent combination of discomfort in the year 2020. As the first floods hit in May 2020 destroying standing crops, farm lands, infrastructure and human settlements, the events intensified coupled with cyclone Amphan affecting tens of thousands of people. As people hurried to relief camps amidst standard operating protocols drawn by the State Disaster Management Authority, […]
Lockdown imposed movement restrictions and social distancing measures. All these took the masses by surprise gripped with fear. This hampered access to food grain. It was therefore, necessary to ensure supply of food grains in areas where the need was felt. DCI conducted needs assessment and identified Katpuha in Nalbari district, Chenga in Barpeta district, Radhanagar, Rajnagar and Gorangabazaar in […]
The first wave of Covid-19 in 2020 put people at risk of hunger apart from health and threat to live and livelihoods. The World Food Programme estimated the pandemic to see more than a quarter billion people suffering from acute hunger by the end of the year. Strained food supplies hit the homeless and those who live in destitution. With […]
Global economic development has given rise to use of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE). EEE has enhanced the standard of living while at the same time resulted in growing number of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Short life cycles of EEE have compounded the issue of equipment reaching their end-of-life calling for their scientific management (formal recycling). The consumption […]