Risking her life and the life of her unborn child, Santoshi is a real hero and deserves our gratitude and salute.
Santoshi Manikpuri is an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife in Kerawahi village in Kondagaon, Chhattisgarh. She is 9 months pregnant and yet goes to work everyday to make sure her community remains safe from the coronavirus.
More than 208,000 ANM's are among the frontline health workers protecting India from COVID19. Risking her life and the life of her unborn child, Santoshi is a real hero and deserves our gratitude and salute.
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The Student Teacher Ratio and School Area needs improvement
In this video of UPS Manwan Awoora school, Kupwara, Kashmir, the community correspondent Pir Azhar shows us that there are nine classes for 250 students, and due to lack of space, the lower primary classes are held outside in the open. Also the school has only 7 teachers.