As per provisions of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, each registered worker is ensured a minimum 100 days of work in a year and full payment of their wages at the end of the work. The projects include anything from laying a road to digging a well....
Pushpa Devi wanted a house. She had dreams of raising her children in a proper house in contrast to a bamboo hut that barely protects them from even the minutest of a hitch. Her dreams took her way from the shadows of a house beyond to the lucidness of a...
If you don’t want the wolf to grow, don’t feed it. Community Correspondent Mamta Patra brings us a positive story documenting a communities efforts to get better sanitation facilities from Redhakol Block. The community of Kuhi village are very happy with the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign). They received...
The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan or what was once called the ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ run by the Government of India envisions villages and semi urban areas with “healthy and clean surroundings.” Providing funds for the construction of toilets is one of its major functions. An otherwise great initiative, it has collapsed...
More than 100 elderly citizens of Maniyar chak, are entitled to receive old age pension. But corruption and ignorance have kept every penny that comes through various pension schemes, slowly choking their chance to survive. Community correspondent Shila Shekh reports from Khandwa village, Munger District in Bihar. Corruption has weakened...
India is gearing up for one of its most exciting general elections ever. With barely two months to go, analysts, politicians, the media, the twitterati are all neck deep in debate about who Indians will vote into power. On D-day, while millions will exercise their right to vote, there will...
Community correspondent Kesha Devi reports of a Dalit family from her village, Mahuramshala in Uttar Pradesh, who have been living without a proper roof over their heads. Harilal Harijan with his family of nine, has been living in a bamboo hut for over three years now. He is a daily...
Rekha Devi, a resident of Paravpur Village in Uttar Pradesh has not received any pension fund since her husband died. She has 3 daughters and 2 sons to feed, with no source of income. To add to her troubles, she doesn’t have any ration card either. Community correspondent Anjana Yadev...