9 people hadn’t been paid for 100 days of work done under MGNREGA. 6 months later, they finally received their dues – with the help of a video that community correspondent Navita Devi made on this issue. She screened this video to mobilize the community and then to the Panchayat...
Aadi Gutno village of Kulgam District was washed away by September 2014 Kashmir floods. The lack of a concrete protection bund(wall) on the river Vaishoo till date has kept this village vulnerable. Crops, agricultural land, and houses were destroyed the last time River Vaisho breached into the village, putting the...
‘I was returning from work and on the way, I fell off the train.’ According to the Rajya Samajik Pension Scheme, any individual who is severely disabled – 40% or above – and living below the poverty line, is provided assistance by the government in the form of monthly pension....
An entire village in Malda district of West Bengal was submerged in the 1998 floods. 17 years later, the people have not been given proper homes to stay. – There was no water here, there were houses. – Where are the houses?– No houses are left. They were all submerged....
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...
The elders of Bhadal village in Madhya Pradesh are starving and are forced to do manual labor because they have not received their pension for last 2 years. They don’t have money to buy food or medicines for themselves. According to Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme implemented by the...
“Women don’t have the opportunity to earn a living doing men’s work.” “When I ask for work they tell me that I cannot do those jobs.” “If we do not earn then how are we expected to make a living.” Under the MGNREGA scheme provision has been made for 100...