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Stop Forceful Land Acquisition in Belahari, Odisha

 
/ January 5, 2015

A villager recounts that those displaced earlier for the same project are living as domestic helps. Happy with farming, Belahari villagers from Kalinga Nagar do not want to give their land to TATA Company. CALL TO ACTION : Call District Collector, Anil Kumar Samal at +916728222330 and demand that he...

A tribal festival in Jharkhand

 
/ January 2, 2015

Eind is a popular festival of the Munda tribal community in Jharkhand. Community Correspondent Warles Surin shows the celebrations and tells the history of the festival.

Land Taken on Name of Development but no Compensation, Mandu Block, Ramgarh, Jharkhand

 
/ December 31, 2014

The Central Government’s recommendations to make significant changes in the Land Acquisition Act 2013, most significantly the removal of the consent clause have left civil society and human rights activists shocked. The changes have been justified by those in power as a means to make the process of acquisition much...

Few teachers and no toilets in middle school

 
/ December 29, 2014

“We want to be taught properly in our class and we want there to be discipline in our school,” says Meena, a student of the only middle school in all of Gaunaha Block, Bihar. VV-PACS Community Correspondent Tanju Devi reports on the woeful infrastructure of this school that serves the...

Nutrition and Education: A case for Anganwadi in a slum settlement

 
/ December 18, 2014

Kadru Kumhar Toli, a slum settlement in Ranchi, Jharkhand, is home to about 250 families. 49 children in this community are below the age of 5 but there is no Anganwadi centre around. Community Correspondent Nirmala Ekka’s report shows that Anganwadi would go a long way in escalating the poor...

Fraud with Unemployed Tribals, Mandro, Sahebganj

 
/ December 15, 2014

In Dedorpahar, Mandro Block of Sahebganj district in Jharkhand, Joel Malto took 10000 INR each from Poonam malto and 25 others promising them a job in Janseva Bima Yojana(Janseva Insurance Scheme). It has been more than a year since Joel promised them a permanent job in the Government. Among the...

Incorrect BPL survey vexing Somra

 
/ December 15, 2014

In Jamdih village of Kamadara block, Somra munda and his family of 7 is living without a roof from several months. He works in the fields as a daily wage labourer and earns a mere income of 120 INR to support his wife and 5 kids. He barely manages to...

Demanding Fair Price For Forest Produce, Khudaguda, Odisha

 
/ December 12, 2014

This video is made by a Video Volunteers Community Correspondent Dasarathi Behera to get fair price for Khudaguda villagers. CALL TO ACTION : To support his efforts and the villagers call District Forest Officer, Baikuntha Bihari Mishra at +91 6641 226 444. Community Correspondents come from marginalised communities in India...