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Proactive grannies need your Proactive Support

 
/ July 11, 2014

Robbed of their pensions.  Government negligence.  Old and left with no other option but to work the land.  Shame.  Imagine your grandmother breaking her back in the fields so she can feed herself.  Disgraceful shame.   “In the time of sowing seeds in the farms we work in the Munda...

Not a drop to drink

 
/ July 9, 2014

No water to drink! Broken wells dry up quickly.  Unsafe toxic water in hand pumps.  The water comes out black or turns yellow when kept in a vessel.  This is what residents from Kailashpur have to face everyday.  You can change this today.   Call to Action:  Pressure the Village...

Displacement- Pretend Promises, Damaged Dreams

 
/ July 9, 2014

“They said so many things before uprooting us, but did not fulfill their promises.”   This is the case for residents of Turitola village, who were uprooted from their homes in the name of development but not given adequate compensation.   Call to Action:Help them now!   Prakash Chanda, General...

Another case of government neglect in a school

 
/ July 9, 2014

One teacher in the school, managing, teaching and supervising 250 children.  Midday meals not being served regularly and on the verge of halting altogether.  Sound similar?  Yes.  This is another case of government neglect in Phulpadar village primary school that you need to put to right.  Are you ready?  I...

No Right to Health

 
/ July 7, 2014

Article 21 of Indian Constitutionstates:Protection Of Life And Personal Liberty: No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.This has come to include the Right to Health as a fundamental right and thus the Government has a responsibility to fulfill it. ...

Meet 85 yr old Kanduri Barik who was robbed of her house

 
/ July 3, 2014

“They had sanctioned a house in my husbands name earlier.  But they took away the total amount of money illegally.  Now they are telling me, ‘You have received it.’”   This is the sad story of 85 year old Kanduri Barik from Potanai village who was meant to receive a...

I’ll set up your electricity connection, but won’t provide you with electricity

 
/ July 2, 2014

In accordance with the Rajeev Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme, Below Poverty Line (BPL) families should receive free electricity from the Government.  However residents of Singhjhor village, though connected to the electricity supply are not receiving electricity.    Call to Action:  Residents need you support to put pressure on the Site...

Outrage! Government farm which doesn’t pay its employees

 
/ July 2, 2014

“As a daily wage labourer she has to be paid her wages by the end of every week.”But due to the negligence of the farm workers Boiti Pradhan has not been receiving her wages for the last three months.  The most shocking thing is that she works for a Government...