Case Studies

In a village near Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, farmer Rameshwari Kamdi and her husband describe how extreme heat has devastated their crops, burning bhindi, onions, and seasonal vegetables before harvest despite daily watering. Nearly Rs. 20,000 worth of seeds and crops were lost in a single season.

Nidhi Chandrakar, women's NGO founder and grassroots social worker, describes how climate disruptions intensify responsibilities placed on women — and how seed ball initiatives, organic craft programmes, and social empowerment are inseparable from climate resilience.

Dr. Ashishan Kumar Minj, Chief Surgeon at Durg district hospital, describes a dedicated "loo prabandhan" ward with ice-making equipment and immersion baths — infrastructure built specifically to manage the rising surge of heatstroke patients during summer months.

In villages facing five months of annual drought, the Uva Wellassa Women's Organisation introduced soil ridges, native reforestation with Kumbuk and Mee trees, drip irrigation, and organic farming — transforming hardship into generational resilience.

Jadav Payeng, often called the "Forest Man of India," spent roughly four decades planting trees on a barren sandbar along the Brahmaputra River in Assam. What began as a personal effort to restore damaged land grew into a 1,300-acre forest now known as Molai Forest.