Community Correspondents

Vinti Vishwakarma

Vinti Vishwakarma is CC from Kodrama. Vinti is in her early twenties and worked as a teacher in local private school. When it all began, camera handling, shooting, meeting with community members, researching the themes, following up - each aspect thrilled her. She feels that the community takes her as a leader and she intends to help them get benefitted by the government schemes.

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Dalit Man Dies of Police Brutality in Jharkhand

 
/ April 9, 2018

Police brutality against people from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities is neither new nor rare. The state should focus on protecting vulnerable groups from torture rather than weakening the existing law against caste-discrimination and atrocity.

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Public Health in Jharkhand: One Crumbling Health Centre for 8000 People

 
/ November 3, 2017

Reports on maternal and child deaths come in from different parts of the country everyday: no surprise given that the public health infrastructure is in shambles.

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30 families struggling to access basic amenities in Jharkhand

 
/ May 9, 2016

30 families cannot access basic amenities as they have not been allotted titles for the forest land they have been living on for 30 years. These families are completely dependent on the forest for their livelihood and as per Forest Rights Act, anyone who has been living and cultivating forest land...

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Broken house and broken dreams

 
/ January 22, 2016

9 houses are in shambles at Garha village in Majnoli panchayat of Jharkhand. Malti Devi and her family are among those affected. ‘I live with my children here. What if the roof falls down? During monsoon, we have to live in someone else’s house. We have approached the Village Head...