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This week, we bring you two stories from Uttarakhand. In the first, Flavia Lopes reports from Urgam valley on how houses are developing cracks, and agricultural land is subsiding not because of any current calamity, but as a consequence of the devastating 2013 floods in the state. Even nine years later, the mountains remain impacted, and people are asking for a study on why this is happening, and consequently action to protect lives and livelihoods. Watch the video. | | In another piece of ground reporting, Satyam Kumar finds that the Jal Jeevan Mission, with the aim of providing tap connections to all rural households, isn't working well on the ground. About 61.5% of rural homes in Uttarakhand have taps, the mission's dashboard says. But taps in many areas have no water, we found.
| | | Plus, tomorrow we bring you a story of how the arrival of a pipeline in a Maharashtra village has changed the lives of women, who are responsible for collecting water. Don't forget to check out www.indiaspend.com. | | | | The government released the latest education statistics from 2020-21, the first such nationwide data to tell us how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted education. Mridusmita Bordoloi and Anwesha Mallick of Accountability Initiative look at enrollment patterns, and find that the income shocks because of Covid-19 and the lockdowns has meant higher government school enrollment and lower private school enrollment. Read our story to know what the government needs to do to support the right to education. | | On completing eight years in power, several BJP leaders and ministers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made a series of claims on social media and in newspaper advertisements related to growth of urban transport. Divyani Dubey fact-checked four such claims on the metro rail network, airports & national highways, to find that none was entirely true.
| | | Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath recently claimed that since the BJP government came into power in the state in 2017, its unemployment rate had fallen from 18% to 2.9%. FactChecker found that the state's unemployment rate never touched double digits in 2017 and instead of a drop, data highlighted a rise in the rate since. | | |
India is the third-largest carbon emitter in the world and its first carbon market is set to come up in Gujarat. Nidhi Jacob finds out and explains what these carbon markets are and how effective they are in bringing down emissions.
Thousands die of brain tumours every year and yet there exist several misconceptions around it. On World Brain Tumour Day, FactChecker busted six popular myths around it. | | | Thank you for reading, and do write to us with your suggestions. | | | Shreya Khaitan Senior Writer and Editor
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