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No More Garbage Here!!

 
/ March 25, 2014

Community Correspondent Shanta Yevtikar lives in Nanded district of Maharashtra. One day while travelling through Phule Nagar area of Mukhed city, she noticed a lot of water and garbage collected in the vicinity. The stench was unbearable to the point that she felt sick when her bus stopped there for...

Treated like garbage: Lesser known consequences of mining

 
/ March 24, 2014

The East Parej open coal mine in Ramgarh district, Jharkhand has left the landscape scarred and ravaged after nearly a decade of mining activities. The communities displaced by the mines and those on the borders of it, live out their days in a cloud of soot. Community Correspondent Basanti Soren’s...

Elusive Amenities

 
/ March 20, 2014

“We have to travel 5 km on this road to get to the hospital, that too carrying the cycle on our shoulders because it cannot be used on this road. My child has severe fever and we have already traveled 5km like this. It just gets worse and worse day...

Sanitation down the drain

 
/ March 24, 2014

Barely 2 kms from raipur road in Pharasgaon district of Chattisgarh is Zhullnadi village. Although it comes under the Pharasgaon municipality, it still is nothing more than a forgotten village. Pharasgaon became a municipality in 2006 which also meant it became biggger and the central point of administration. Still, the...

Road to Bhubaneshwar

 
/ March 19, 2014

Close to the capital of Odisha is ward ward no.1 of Shikharchandi which is administered by the Bhubhaneshwar Municipality Corporation. The road which connects the whole community to the rest of the state, primarily Bhubhanshwar, the capital of the state, is in a bad condition. The community is facing problems...

Rocky Road Blues

 
/ March 18, 2014

Thirty years ago the road connecting Badamal Panchayat to the rest of Sambalpur District in Odisha was built and greeted with a huge sigh of relief. They would now not remain stuck in the little hamlet and others would be able to come visit them. Their hopes and the road...

Corrupted Dreams

 
/ March 18, 2014

Pushpa Devi wanted a house. She had dreams of raising her children in a proper house in contrast to a bamboo hut that barely protects them from even the minutest of a hitch. Her dreams took her way from the shadows of a house beyond to the lucidness of a...

Tapering Hopes

 
/ March 17, 2014

Every household in ward no. 3 of Jairamnagar has taps installed. Access to a stable and clean source of water is one of the most basic facilities that an individual, a family or a community requires. By installing these taps the government has made sure that every household in the community –...