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Public Companies for Corporate Good

 
/ January 19, 2015

January 19; Godda, Jharkhand On September 7th of last year, residents of Lohandia village in Jharkhand sat on a strike near the familiar mining site of Eastern Coalfields Limited. The vibrations emanating from the blasts for coal extraction has cracked the walls of villagers’ houses. “A child was injured by...

Uprooting a slum for corporate convenience

 
/ January 16, 2015

January 16; Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh A slum near Minto Park in Allahabad is being uprooted and its residents disposed, Community Correspondent Ajeet Bahadur reports on the political and corporate motivations driving this move.

Too much coal, very little water

 
/ January 15, 2015

January 15; Ramgarh, Jharkhand Unchecked mining leads to many adversities, dropping levels of water in the ground is one of them. Parej East Mining Project, in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand, has left the surrounding areas dry. Villagers who work as manual labourers have no access to drinkable water and the only...

Factory pollution choking lives

 
/ January 15, 2015

January 15; Satara, Maharashtra Village of Golegaon in rural Maharashtra is suffering from the toxin pollutions by a factory unit of Sona Alloys Pvt. Limited. “Flowers don’t bloom on our fruit trees due to the black dust,” says Hirabai Gole, resident of Golegaon. Community Correspondent Rohini Pawar reports on the...

Bleak future: No compensation for labourer who lost limbs on the job

 
/ January 13, 2015

This is a story about negligence. At the young age of 19 Pabitra Lohar’s dreams for earning for his family have been cut short after a terrible accident at work left him without 1 leg and 1 hand. Pabitra had migrated from his village in Odisha to the neighbouring state...

No drains in rural Jharkhand

 
/ January 9, 2015

Community Correspondent Shantilata Baa reports from Jharkhand on the problems faced by a community in the lack of a drainage system.

Awaiting disasters of a dam project in Madhya Pradesh

 
/ January 8, 2015

A government dam project is threatening to displace the entire population of a village in Madhya Pradesh. The amount of compensation being offered by the administration isn’t enticing the locals as some of them have lived in  Madaiyan village for generations. They will lose their houses, their land, and their...

State of a slum

 
/ January 7, 2015

Mounds of unhygienic garbage surround the Gandhinagar slum in Chattisgarh due to municipality’s ignorance. With no supply of clean water or a drainage system in place, swamps of stagnated water have become breeding grounds for diseases. The number of people with stomach infections in the area has seen a steep rise....