September 2016
Bihar Community Collects Money to Repair Its Own Well
In the year 2014, Sahuja Devi, a resident of Bihar would worry about the depleting water in the community well every morning. The government well, the only source of water in Kailashpur village had been lying in a dilapidated condition for two years and would soon crumble. “We requested the...
Community Action Helps Implement Village Panchayat
In India, the Panchayati Raj functions as a system of governance in which gram panchayats, the village councils, are the basic units of local administration. Formalised under the Panchayat Raj Act in 1992 by the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitution, the village council looks after the development and welfare of the...
A thousand people from Madhya Pradesh have no water
The handpumps of Bilha village, in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh, have hardly pumped water in the past one year. Due to the water scarcity, mothers and young girls of more than 100 families of the village walk over 2 km to fetch water from Kulga, the nearest village. The...
Stealing the reward: Head of Tantamukti group steals reward money
Corruption exists at all levels in India, wherever there is a position of power. Due to this, the good Samaritans amongst even the poorest of the poor are denied services and through that justice itself. Tantamukt group in Danel village of Maharashtra had done commendable services in the past. They...
Citizen Action helps Council Members Receive Due Salary
Every village in India that has a population of at least 300 people, is governed by a Panchayat, whose members are elected from among the villagers. These elected leaders oversee local affairs ranging from road construction and sanitation to education and maintaining civil records. The Panchayats are, so to speak,...
After Six Years of wait for Government help, Bundeli’s House crumbles
Bundeli, a 65-year-old woman from Chhattisgarh is living like a refugee in someone else’s backyard. All her worldly belongings are bundled up in a small sack by the side of her bed, a space on a bare ground. But Bundeli once had a house up until September 10, 2016...
After Six Years of wait for Government help, Bundeli’s House crumbles
Bundeli, a 65-year-old woman from Chhattisgarh is living like a refugee in someone else’s backyard. All her worldly belongings are bundled up in a small sack by the side of her bed, a space on a bare ground. But Bundeli once had a house up until September 10, 2016...
25 Years & Three generations Late: Rehabilitation Eludes Them
Anandrao Bendukle, 81, had been embroiled in a battle for rehabilitation for the past 20 years against the state. His agricultural land was submerged while making the Kashyapi Dam along river Godavari. In 1997, when the lands of Kashyapnagar, Dhondegaon, Devargaon and other regions in Nashik district where acquired, the Maharashtra...