13-year-old Nirama lives in Movaiya village, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh where 500 people have no access to basic sanitation facilities. For Nirama, having to relieve herself in the open is an added challenge as she is visually impaired. She is afraid of being teased and more seriously, of being sexually...
Imagine having to sludge your way through 1 km. of wet mud everyday to get to school. Imagine arriving all dirty and being sent back home by the teacher. Imagine the authorities not doing anything about the dirt track that is the main road in your community. This is the...
268 children have had no access to clean drinking water, clean toilets, hygienic food or electricity for the last four years! This has adversely affected their education and general health. Imagine going to a school where you don’t get water to drink, electricity to see, toilets to relieve yourself and...
How would you feel if you had to drain out buckets full of dirty drain water from your courtyard everyday? It sounds disgusting right? VV-PACS Correspondent Satyendra Kumar investigates how the blocked drainage system in Badagaon village, Mau district, Ratanpura block, Uttar Pradesh is making life difficult for it 150...
According to The National Sample Survey (NSS) 59.4 per cent of India’s rural homes defecate in the open. This is despite the fact that the government runs schemes like the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and has borne an expenditure of 19,626 crore INR ($4.3 billion) in the last 10 years. VV-PACS...
The Indian Government’s National Pension System is an on going saga of another ineffective government policy. One example is Pramila Devi in Ahimachak village, Katihar district, Bihar who is not receiving her right to old age pension. VV PACS Community Correspondent Navita Devi interviews the 70 year old pensioner...
The Indira Awaas (Housing) Scheme is a 1985 Indian government initiated social welfare program created to provide housing for the rural underprivileged in India. Rampatti Devi from village Ambai Bujurg, district Kausambi, Uttar Pradesh is one of 200 Dalit people who has not been receiving the benefits of this scheme....
The Indian Government launched the National Pension System scheme with high hopes but it has failed to deliver as expected.One such case is Pakhandu Yadav from Patel Nagar, Munari village, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh who was denied his pension for not paying a bribe to the Village Head. The Village Head...
