Satyanarayan Banchhor| Buda Bahal Village, Bolangir District, Odisha The Lower Suktel Dam project will submerge Buda Bahal Village of Bolangir district. Residents of the village, who are entirely dependent upon agriculture and forest produce for their livelihoods have been opposing the project and asking for forest land pattas for the...
The Indian’s government’s scheme to bring down maternal and neonatal focuses on encouraging women to deliver at state-run health facilities–Providing cash incentives and free healthcare for pregnant women below the poverty line. However, pregnant women in Bankeda village Odisha are forced to hire private vehicles and pay for check-ups and...
5th June 2015 | Gayarmunda Village, Deoghar, Odisha | Dashrathi Behera For those whose lives are so intricately tied up with the land, rivers and forests of a region, celebrating and worshipping nature is an integral part of their cultures. While on one hand rampant mining, badly planned dams and...
Kohigia Village Council, Jajpur District, Odisha | Biswanath Patra Even though the Right to Education act prohibits the use of physical torture in government schools, it remains a disturbingly widespread practice across the country to beat students to discipline them. This report documents one such incident, where a teacher severely...
Pardhiapally Village, Loisingha Block, Bolangir, Odisha | Shankar Imagine being constantly scared that the roof of your school is going to fall on your head. 40 students at this primary school located near the blasting site for a dam face this fear on a daily basis. The construction of the...
Gajipur Village, Kendujhar District, Odisha | Jayanti “We play, eat the food cooked at school and go home,” says Maini, of her day spent at this primary school. With only one teacher to look after five classes, the children do not spend any time learning. The crumbling infrastructure of the...
23rd March 2015 | Kheramuta, Sundergarh District, Odisha | Halomuni Kuardar The residents of Lanjiberna, Bihaband and Kheramuta villages in Odisha have been protesting the presence of OCL India’s limestone and dolomite mines in their area. The densely populated area has been facing multiple problems because of the mines. In...
23rd March 2015 | Dhandamunda Panchayat, Khaprakhol Block, Odisha | Lambodar Takri Rita Ghana, a resident of this area elaborates on how the shoddy implementation of a scheme by the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department has left thousands thirsty. Out of the 15 hand pumps originally installed, only 7...
