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CYCLE

Centre for Youth, Culture, Law & Environment

CYCLE is a non-governmental organization based in New Delhi. We work with the government and the public to improve the implementation of public policies in India. We envision to build conversation across boundaries for India's social, cultural and economic development.

Paras Tyagi talks about issues of public policy for villages in NCR region on Prime Time

पारस त्यागी का एनसीआर के गांवों की लोकनीति के मुद्दों पर प्राइम टाइम पर बयान।

Short film explaining public policy issues of Laal dora villages. Magicbricks TV पर स्वामित्व योजना पर चर्चा करते हुए पारस।

In Delhi, how urbanisation, economics and environment eroded agricultureThe dip in farming in Delhi is now established by data. Cropped area in Delhi dropped from 33,700 hectares in 2010 to 29,000 hectares in 2020, according to the government’s statistical data records

Landless in Bakkargarh: A village suffers for its role in Revolt of 1857Bakkargarh is perhaps the only village in Delhi where almost 90% of the land is owned by people outside the village. 

केंद्र की स्वामित्व योजना से बाहर रखे जाने पर क्यों नाख़ुश है दिल्ली की ग्रामीण आबादीसाल 2020 में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने 'स्वामित्व योजना' की शुरुआत की थी. तब बताया गया था कि ग्रामीण ज़मीनों का सर्वेक्षण करने के बाद उनका मालिकाना हक़ ग्रामीण आबादी को दिया जाएगा. इस साल जुलाई में संसद में बताया गया कि दिल्ली की ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में यह योजना लागू नहीं होगी, जिसके बाद से यहां के लोग

Delhi CM announces compensation of ₹50,000 per hectare for crop damageKejriwal added that district officials had started the process of assessment of losses and the survey will be completed within two weeks

As DDA's Land Pooling Plan Continues to Be Delayed, Are Its Goals Still Achievable?Landowners are also not satisfied with the policy and are confused about certain clauses such as redistribution of land, registration of fragmented landholdings.

The Hits and Misses of the Pusa Capsule, the Delhi Government's Solution to Stubble Burning | THE BASTIONAs the Delhi Government pushes the Pusa decomposer as a successful alternative to stubble burning, New Delhi's farmers highlight its hits and misses.

Delhi Village Farmers Pay Price for Urbanisation | NewsClickFarmlands in Narela’s Garhi Bakhtawarpur village remain flooded for eight months a year due to an overflowing drain.

Finding Delhi's "Encroachers": The Lal Dora Investigation | THE BASTIONAside from low-income "encroachers" of common land, there are much larger players in Delhi who must also share the blame of worsening Delhi’s land scarcity.

MPD 2041: Delhi’s villages seek a road map for developmentResidents said a dedicated playground is just one among many social and civic infrastructure missing in this congested rural village, which was declared urbanised in 2017 for the implementation of the land pooling policy.

No Water or Sanitation: Daurala, a Village on the Periphery of Delhi's ‘Development’From access to clean water to schools for children, this small Delhi hamlet has a slew of complaints against those in power.

Villagers’ wait for development layout plan continues in DelhiAccording to the residents of Lal Dora villages in the national capital territory, the lack of a development plan causes several problems for them.

How Urbanisation Went Wrong in Lal Dora Villages on Delhi's PeripheryLal dora villages refer to places where the British used red ink to demarcate collectively-held residential land from agricultural land in village maps for the purposes of tax collection.

NGO decries govt. apathy towards saving waterbodiesCentre for Youth Culture Law and Environment (CYCLE), an NGO, and RWA of Jhuljhuli village, after reviewing waterbodies in the city said that 40 of them couldn’t be located, 180 were encroached upon a

A crop in the field but none to harvest Window for harvesting, before the crop is lost, gets narrower and narrower

Story of a movie and a Delhi villageIn Delhi’s Nangal Thakran, a village where Upkar — the 1967 patriotic movie that glorified farming was shot, villagers fondly remember their tryst with famed film stars, even as their agricultural woes mount

You’ve (still) got mail: Why postcards are foreverNot just activists, for millions of commoners across India, the humble postcard, which costs only 50 paisa, continues to be a preferred mode of communication.

Master Plan of Delhi-2041: Villages need time-bound implementation policiesQuestions are being raised for a time-bound implementation of its policies for all the 365 villages that come under the rural and urban categories

Delhi’s urban planners must stop ignoring the shoddy infrastructure in its 135 urban villagesThese ‘lal dora’ lands are run by influential families with little civic oversight.

Delhi's Vikaspuri stink: Open area used for weddings leaves bad aftertaste | Delhi News - Times of IndiaA 4.5-acre green area located in the middle of west Delhi’s Vikaspuri and Budhela Village has become an eyesore for residents.

खेतों में भरा नजफगढ़ झील का पानीझमाझम हो रही बारिश का सबसे ज्यादा असर दिल्ली देहात में दिखाई दे रहा है। नजफगढ़ झील के किनारे स्थित खेतों में अब झील का पानी भर गया है।

‘We had Great Hopes, but Modiji has Failed us,’ say Delhi Villagers on Exclusion from Svamitva Scheme | NewsClickMillions of Lal Dora residents upset with Panchayati Raj Ministry over denial of property ownership rights citing absence of gram panchayat.

अमर उजाला की खबर का असर: कुतुबगढ़ गांव में डिस्पेंसरी का चार साल बाद खुला तालाउत्तर पश्चिम दिल्ली के कुतुबगढ़ गांव में बनी डिस्पेंसरी के भवन का करीब चार साल बाद ताला खुल गया है। यहां इलाके के लोगों

जांच-पड़ताल: देश की राजधानी दिल्ली में ही किसानों को नहीं मिलता फसलों का न्यूनतम समर्थन मूल्य, FCI नहीं खरीदती अनाजअपनी फसलों के लिए न्यूनतम समर्थन मूल्य दिलाने की मांग को लेकर देश भर के किसान आन्दोलन कर रहे हैं। केंद्र सरकार कह रही

Rate waterbodies close to your home on mobile app | Delhi News - Times of IndiaNew Delhi: Ahead of the World Water Day, Delhiites will now be able to rate the health scrore of any waterbody they visit, thanks to a mobile applicat.

Shrinking Commons Amidst Delhi’s Unplanned Urbanisation | THE BASTIONRam Kumar Roja, 76 years of age, is standing on a ground, bordered by a few trees and a wall. This one acre piece of land did not always look like this.

City of lakes? Why Delhi’s claim doesn’t hold water | Delhi News - Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: With expectations that the coming monsoon season would help revive Delhi’s waterbodies, many of which are now dry, a Delhi-based NGO and a .

Lal Dora: The invisible red thread limiting the lives of Delhi's 'urban villagers' | | Citizen Matters"PSU banks do not provide any kind of credit facilities for people who own lands in the urban villages, they say we belong to the Lal Dora. When we go to the MCD, they say we don't belong to

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain futureNEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Many of the landmarks of Paras Tyagi's life remain the same in Budhela village in Delhi where he grew up: the house he lived in, the school that he, his father and grandfather attended, the homes of neighbours he knew as a child.

Stuck between planes and trainsManoj.sharma@hindustantimes.com

All Park and No Play | THE BASTIONWritten by Vaishnavi Rathore | This article is the first instalment of Vaishnavi’s series ‘Ecology and the City’, which explores how complications in

Delhi's illegal colonies await makeover after coronavirusNEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Sanjiv Yadav moved to Delhi from the northern Indian town of Etawah, he rented a small room in an illegal settlement like millions of other migrant workers in the capital city.

Love thy neighbour? Village submerged in waste water from Gurugram | Delhi News - Times of IndiaHundreds of acres of farmland in Rawta, the last village in Delhi this side of the Haryana border, lie submerged under dark-grey sewage and the stink

Urban flooding, govt apathy may force 6,000 residents to flee village on Haryana borderThe people of the village localed on the Delhi-Haryana border are losing hope because of the government apathy to their plight.

Let us compost waste locally, six villages request SDMC | Delhi News - Times of IndiaPeople from six urban villages have written to South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) asking it to stop transporting solid waste to waste-to-energy

Delhi: Najafgarh Farmers Turn Stubble Problem Into A SolutionAmid choking pollution in Delhi-NCR, farmers in Delhi's Najafgarh area have said they do not burn paddy stubble as it…

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