Farmers from Bongvali village of Pune district in Maharashtra are losing their land to a money lender who cheats them on the pretext of helping them out during times of crisis. Sitaram Shevram Surve keeps a farmer’s land as mortgage against loans and when the farmer goes to return the...
Those displaced from Sardar Sarovar Dam project are still waiting to be rehabilitated. In another case of utter neglect from the government, people have been allotted land on paper but the allotted property either belongs to someone else or is unusable. Chetan Salve reports from Narmadanagar of Nandurbar...
People keep falling in the open sewers and end up getting wounded at Nalanda Nagar, Ghatkopar. The residing community is afraid for their children who are most susceptible to this hazard and demand the drains to be covered as soon as possible. Through this video, Community Correspondent Zulekha puts forth...
The 1994 floods caused hundreds of deaths across five states in India and left an estimated two million homeless. Survivors from Mangli village in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra are still waiting for the compensation sanctioned by the government. In 1994, more than 80% of Mangli village in Chandrapur district was...
People rehabilitated under the Sardar Sarovar project, have the right to receive 5 acres of land if they are beneficiaries. In this video, we talk to Wadage and Kheti Vasave, two of the farmers who lost their land in the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project. Wadage Vasave shifted house in 1995...
In Maharashtra, between Manwani and Bhadal, many houses & villages have drowned since 1994. The government hasn’t done anything to help these people. 33 villages in Maharashtra, 19 villages in Gujarat and 193 villages of Madhya Pradesh have been displaced due to the Sardar Sarovar Dam project. More than 2,50,000...
Pune, Maharashtra | Rohini pawar In Veer village, women are not allowed to enter the Mkhaskoba temple. It is an old tradition that people of Veer village have been following for a very long time. On Women’s day, Rohini visited the Mhaskoba temple wondering may be, on that day they...
