Drugs, Early Marriage, Online Games: Balemu Gets a Hard Talk on Child Safety

It is comforting to believe that child abuse, drug trouble and early marriage belong to bigger towns and other people’s families. On Friday, a gathering at Balemu village in West Kameng district heard that this comfort is misplaced. The Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (APSCPCR) took its sensitisation programme to the … Read more

When Welfare Schemes Fail the Most Vulnerable, It’s Time to Fix the Leaks — Arunachal Governor Sends a Clear Message

Rice reaches a warehouse in Itanagar. Whether it reaches a family in a remote border village is a completely different story — and that gap is exactly what Governor K.T. Parnaik wants to close. On Tuesday, August 11, Arunachal Pradesh Governor K.T. Parnaik issued a pointed call for greater transparency and accountability across the state’s … Read more