17th March | Sundarpur Village, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh | Shabnam Begum 400 people from the slums in Sundarpur village are forced to defecate in the open though many have toilets in their houses. In 2013 many of these houses were constructed under the Kanshi Ram Rural Poor Housing Scheme....
17th March 2015 | Chitrapur, Latehar District, Jharkhand | Anastasiya Tigga 12 families from Chitrapur village are face the threat of serious water-borne diseases because of a broken well. The water in the only well in the village becomes unusable each monsoon. The torrents of rain wash down the dirt...
16 March 2015 | Dashrathpur, Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh | Kesha Devi 75 people have not yet received payments for work done 4 months ago under MGNREGA. The local authority has disconnected himself from the matter stating that the money has not yet arrived from the government itself.
16 March 2015 | Chaurakhas, Kusinagar, Uttar Pradesh | Madhuri Chauhan 40 days and on, the community waits to receive any work under MGNREGA. To keep the household running gradually becomes more and more difficult as more days pass.
12th March| Dhangadhra,Surendranagar District, Gujarat | Bipin Solanki The year 2015 started on a most inspiring note for women in the Armed Forces of India. For the first time ever the Republic Day Parade, held on the 26th of January each year, saw an all women contingent march through Rashtrapati...
11th March 2015 | Ranchi, Jharkhand | Priyasheela Besra In November 2014 Razia*, who had been working as a domestic helper in Ranchi, Jharkhand, ran away from her employers. In the four months that she worked there, her male employer had repeatedly raped her. Community Correspondent Priyasheela Besra reported her story...
10th March 2015| Salahpur Panchayat, Uttar Pradesh | Chanda Bharti The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, responsible for providing millions of Indians employment opportunities, has a special mandate to provide jobs for women. This emphasis is a bold move to tackle inequality women face, both in terms of...
