The residents of Chingnar village in Chhattisgarh were filled with angst because of the lack of clean, hygienic water. Their children fell sick by drinking contaminated water from the local ponds, and they wished for a borewell to be fixed. But they waited for this miraculous change to take place...
Sheik Hussain was asked to pay a bribe of Rs. 20,000 to be sanctioned money to build a house under Indra Gandhi Awas Yojana. The Indira Gandhi Awas Yojana (IAY) is one of the many programmes of the Ministry of Rural Development in India. IAY deals with the housing issue...
It was a hopeful winter day for youth in 2015 in Srinagar, Kashmir as Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, spoke about the welfare of J&K youth, amidst an ordered shut down. The house of Nazirs was filled with laughter and happiness on that day, while the youngest son...
The village of Barpali , Korba, Chhattisgarh was once a agrarian land, where people flourished in their lush green fields. But today, the tentacles of industrialisation has sunk deep into the surrounding of the village, sucking it dry of its’ groundwater. With failed rains and rapidly declining groundwater, Barpali village and...
The women of Chindhimal, Navbhid undertake a 4 km long journey daily, to fetch clean, hygenic water for their daily sustenance. Although,under the central scheme National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), the village has a water connection, the water supply is erratic since two years due to broken, unrepaired connection,...
The hand pump had been broken for 6 months. All the sources of water accessible to the community were dirty or not working at all. Shanti Baraik, Video Volunteers correspondent from Jharkhand decided to tackle the issue and got the community together to file an application to the Block Development Officer. The...
“5000 farmers from western Odisha, marched to the main square, Gangadhar Mandap, of Sambalpur city in agitation as Odisha government refuses to link farmer suicides to crop failure. The state inquiry reports state that the farmer deaths are mainly due to family disputes and excessive liquor consumption and not due...
The burning issue in Chhattisgarh that is consuming the marginalised, tribal people of the state today is displacement on a massive scale – for mining, industries, dams, sanctuaries, highways, all in the name of ‘development’. The village of Vehramora, a Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas ACT (PESA ACT) protected land,...
