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Resuscitating Health Care in Rural Jharkhand

 
/ May 7, 2015

May 7th 2015 | Baskhola Village, Mandro Block, Jharkhand | Jyoti Malto Residents of this village travel as far as 20-30 kilometres in order to get basic healthcare. A sub health care centre was built in the village in 2009 but to this date, its doors have never opened to...

A Poem to the Panchayat: a plea for old age pension

 
/ May 5, 2015

May 5th 2015 | Jharkhand, Dhanbad District, Baghmara block, Chatrutand Panchayat, Murlidih Village | Halima Ejaz More than a dozen beneficiaries of Old Age Pension have not received any money in a decade. They have tried all possible routes to avail their entitlement but each of their pleas have been...

The wait for the elusive ration card

 
/ May 4, 2015

Baskobedo Pahar Village, Mundro Block, Jharkhand | Sanju Malto Ration Cards are vital for communities that live below the poverty line to get food grains at subsidised rates. In this community 13 people are yet to get the elusive piece of paper. Community Correspondent Sanju Malto reports on how they...

Scheme After Scheme Fails the Electricity Dream

 
/ April 28, 2015

Salgadih Village, Khunti District, Jharkhand | Amita Tuti A majority of Jharkhand, the coal centre of India, comes to a standstill each evening as the sun fades away. Most villages and cities see electricity for only about 5-6 hours a day. There are still other villages where there is no...

ICDS Fails in Daridag Village, Chatra, Jharkhand

 
/ April 24, 2015

Daridag Village, Chatra District, Jharkhand | Reshmi Devi India’s Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is the world’s largest early childhood development scheme. It has been running for the last 30 years providing supplementary nutrition, immunisation, health check-ups, non-formal pre-school education among other services. This video uncovers how corruption at the...

This Cheating Employer Must be Held Accountable

 
/ April 23, 2015

23rd April 2015 | Hetu Tola, Khunti Block, Jharkhand | Amit Topo People working as labourers at a private farm have been cheated from their wages for the past 5-6 years. Jayant Jaipal Singh, who runs a private farm had employed close to 24 people in 2009. Sugita Kumari was...

T.B. blights the lives of Factory workers

 
/ April 20, 2015

10th April 2015 | Saraipalli Village, Tamnar Block, Chhattisgarh | Rajesh In the absence of any protective measures, the 15 workers at the Golden Refractories in Tamnar Chhattisgarh have contracted Tuberculosis. At least ten people have died of TB in the past four to five years 2013. Community Correspondent Rajesh...

Landless Dalits March for Their Right to Land

 
/ April 8, 2015

On 9th April 2015, 300 landless and homeless people, primarily Dalits, Mahadalits, Adivasis, women and children, will march to the Legislative Assembly in Bihar’s capital, Patna. The group will put forward five demands and ask the government to keep its promise of providing tenancy to the 3.78 lakh landless Dalits...