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Journalists in rural Maharashtra still have jobs, but no income. Why?


Gautam Bachute works for the Marathi daily Pudhari. He gets a 16 percent commission per ad.
“Can I meet you in the evening?” Mahadev Kale, 45, a journalist with the Marathi paper
Dainik
Loknayak in Maharashtra’s Beed district, replied when we asked to speak with him one early June morning. “I am out at the farm with my goats.”
Herding goats is Mahadev’s “side job”. He takes out his flock in the morning and gathers news from Beed’s Kaij taluka through the day, that’s how he provides for his wife and three daughters aged 18, 15 and 13. Or did, until a year and half ago when the pandemic hit and his irregular income from the reporting job almost dried up. His precarious situation has only worsened this year: since Beed was locked down on March 24 to contain the spiralling pandemic, he has not been able to sell any of his 12 goats. ....

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Who is Ramdas Kokare? The man whose methods helped to clear Aadharwadi dumping ground


Who is Ramdas Kokare? The man whose methods helped to clear Aadharwadi dumping ground
How was Aadharwadi dumping ground permanently closed? It was all possible with the efforts of Vijay Suryavanshi, Municipal Commissioner, Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) who assigned the job to Ramdas Tukaram Kokare, deputy municipal commissioner, solid waste management, KDMC. His methods are followed by around 300 municipal corporations and municipal councils across Maharashtra and other states. He gave lectures and training to officials across the nation.
The six acre land filled with garbage will be converted into a garden, cycling track and jogging track. All efforts of Kokare, a 42-year-old who is an Msc in agriculture passout. He appeared for police service and was working as police sub-inspector at Ratnagiri police station from 2006 to 2010. He was then awarded the Mahatma Gandhi jagruk Nagrik award for extraordinary contribution in dispute free villages. His interest ....

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