88 students belonging to Dalit and Muslim communities are forced to study in a school without electricity. The village in which the school is located has electricity but for 15 years there has been no electricity in the school. Please call the BDO of Cooch Behar on +91-3582270221 and demand...
” When the factory carries out explosions, our ancestral houses get damaged.”” The explosions are so intense that it develops cracks even in new buildings, let alone our old foundations.” Arti reports from Chainpura village where a cement factory’s neverending mining operations are putting lives of villagers in danger and...
According to Health Ministry guidelines Primary Health Centres(PHC) are to be operational 24×7. However, the PHC in Baura village of Katihar district Bihar, is open only 2-3 days a month. As a result residents have to travel as far as 25 km to avail basic healthcare facilities. Residents say that...
India has won global appraisal with the consistent decline in number of HIV/AIDS infected people in the last three decades. By 2011, India marked more than 50% decline in number of new HIV infections. Yet, HIV/AIDS is still treated like a taboo in both urban and rural spheres. Jhunu, a...
600 people of Mangalkata Basti in West Bengal are forced to cross a broken wooden bridge which goes over the Nonai river in West Bengal. The bridge leads to the nearest schools, collages, hospital and market. Left with no choice the villagers are living in fear of their lives. Get...
The Integrated child Development Services (ICDS) is India’s response to the challenge of meeting the holistic need of the child. The ICDS is one of the world’s largest and most unique outreach programme for early childhood care and development. It symbolizes India’s commitment to its children. But the fact of...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-talked-about sanitation programme, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), is largely unimplemented in Jammu & Kashmir. The state has also lagged in the implementation of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, with Rs 310.15 crore unspent in 2014-2015, with more than 60 per cent of the target unmet....
Arti bai reports from Indra colony in Madhya Pradesh, on problems faced by the people for getting drinking water. The pipelines don’t work, handpump is broken and people have to walk 1-2 KM to get drinking water.
