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This paper studies the system of online education through factors of health, systematic development, technological divide and resourcefulness. It seeks to provide efficient methods to be imbibed by building a model to tackle the issues encountered within the existing system.

Paper long abstract:

This paper explores a framework to understand the transition into the digital lifestyle of online education and provide solutions to make it more efficient and adaptable. During the pandemic, there was a sudden surge in online transmission of knowledge, as the most available, immediate solution to the constrictive environment. The transition was not smooth as aspects of availability, affordability and accessibility were disturbed which play a major role in well regulated consumption of online education. This raised the issues of sustainability as dependency on this online mode had increased to many folds. In this light, this paper studies the system of online education across various factors of health, systematic development, technological divide and resourcefulness. The research addresses the behavioural patterns of learners to address contemporary problems in order to strive for a futuristic world that sees more and more incorporation of the online system which is productive. The research, therefore, seeks to provide efficient methods to be imbibed by building a framework to tackle the enlisted and identified problem areas encountered within the existing system. The applicability of such a research work can be expanded to ensure large scale feedback from learners and knowledge producers for preparedness.

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Street child vendors are an important issue in the current social system. Due to the existing poverty in the society, the younger members of the family are being forced to participate in various activities by selling candy, cigarettes etc on the streets, to try to solve the short term poverty.

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By engaging in such activities, child vendors try to solve the short term of their poverty. But in this case, they are facing various challenges. Most importantly, dropping out of school means the child forgoes the opportunity to receive an education and create a better life for themselves in the future as they have to perform big responsibilities at an early age. Many families forcibly send their children to work in order to bring financial security to the family. They have to accept these in the face of harsh reality. Through its work every day the whole meal is done. Many times while working, they get involved in deviant behavior and criminal activities.

Today, street child vendors are playing one of the leading roles in the informal sector in the economic structure of various cities. The footsteps of child vendors in Kamla Nagar are most noticeable and ignorant at the same time. Probably, they must be making major changes in their family finances. Basically, this study is an endeavor to depict the conditions of street child vendors in Kamla Nagar. This study will highlight the socio-demographic condition of child vendors and various aspects of them. Here, every child will be considered as a unit of analysis.

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I will present indigenous wisdom on their land, medicine, livelihood, and spiritual identity as the logic to fight against the coercive state and profit-making corporations. I will offer tribal people's wisdom and life experiences based on nearly three decades of ethnographic research.

Paper long abstract:

Indigenous people across cultures view land and natural resources as sacred –living, thinking, and acting beings. Indigenous land, forest, water, and mountains are currently under pressure, commodified, and objectified from the dramatic expansion of large-scale extraction activities and mindless development ventures taken up by states and profit-oriented multi-national corporations. Based on my fieldwork in Odisha, I will focus on the sacred logic of various

Indigenous justice movements to protect their land, livelihood, and spiritual identity. It is well known that the problems faced by the indigenous peoples are essentially universal. They suffer from the consequences of historic injustice, including colonization, dispossession of the lands, territories, and resources, oppression and discrimination,

and lack of control over their ways of life. Colonial and modern states have primarily denied their right to development in pursuing economic growth.

In India, despite the presence of several laws to protect the Adivasis and their habitats, which have been systematically violated and encroached by mega-national companies and multinationals to extract minerals and other natural resources on their land. In this paper, I will present indigenous wisdom on their land, medicine, livelihood, and spiritual identity as the logic to fight against the coercive state and profit-making corporations. Based on nearly three decades of ethnographic research and listening to residents of southeastern Odisha, I will present what I have learned from the indigenous people who have shared their wisdom and life experiences with me.

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This paper focuses on strategies to help people to better adapt to the relocation process. It will highlight frameworks around better use of monetary compensation, bridging the gap between communities & authorities, and paying attention to alternatives that suit ecosystem changes for sustainability.

Paper long abstract:

Relocation, in the context of Kanha National Park Central India, is considered a forceful eviction by some. It has broken people's relationship with the forest. Tribals revere the forest as their deity and protector. But tribals believe that forest is a mere commodity for the enjoyment of outsiders because of tourism and conservation discourse. This paper focuses on strategies to help people to better adapt to the relocation process. It will highlight frameworks around better use of monetary compensation, bridging the gap between communities and authorities, and paying attention to alternatives that suit ecosystem changes for sustainability. It will emphasize in multimodal methodologies such as Narratives/Visuals/Indigenous knowledge can be utilized in the conservation discourse.