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Displaced Tribals From Sardar Sarovar Dam Get Land
Fishing and Farming were the major means of livelihood for Vadgya Vasave and 2 other Bhil tribal families of Shahada Block who were displaced from the banks of Narmada River to Narmada Nagar, Nandurbar district, Maharashtra in the year 1995. These tribal families were displaced by the government for Sardar...
Bihar Community Collects Money to Repair Its Own Well
In the year 2014, Sahuja Devi, a resident of Bihar would worry about the depleting water in the community well every morning. The government well, the only source of water in Kailashpur village had been lying in a dilapidated condition for two years and would soon crumble. “We requested the...
Bihar Community Collects Money to Repair Its Own Well
In the year 2014, Sahuja Devi, a resident of Bihar would worry about the depleting water in the community well every morning. The government well, the only source of water in Kailashpur village had been lying in a dilapidated condition for two years and would soon crumble. “We requested the...
Citizen Action helps Council Members Receive Due Salary
Every village in India that has a population of at least 300 people, is governed by a Panchayat, whose members are elected from among the villagers. These elected leaders oversee local affairs ranging from road construction and sanitation to education and maintaining civil records. The Panchayats are, so to speak,...
350 Senior Citizens get their social pension after a year
In a far-off village in Bihar’s Rupulia village, Amaris Sada will finally be able to get his cataract surgery done which had been pending for over a year and Dadiji (Grandmother) will finally be able to have one good meal with vegetables. All this is possible because they finally received their year...
Impact: Widow Pension Helps Woman Take up farming in Jharkhand
Sikranti Devi is a rural woman’s role model today. A widow since eight years, and partially blinded, Sikranti has taken life in stride as the head of her household. By becoming a farmer in Jamdih Bardanr, in rural Jharkhand, she earns her livelihood and educates her five children. But her...
Impact: 3,000 people of Bihar got overdue pension due to one woman
One woman’s insistence for justice has brought change for almost 3,000 people in Bihar. One year ago Community Correspondent, Tanju Devi, had made a video on year-long pension arrears under the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) of citizens in Gaunaha, West Champaran district of the state. Even after repeated pleas with the authorities, the...
Impact: Mothers & Nurses get their due payment from health department after 3 years
A snoring health department in Dhanbad district was awoken from its three-year slumber of non-payment by Halima Ejaj, a soft-spoken woman in Jharkhand in March. Under the Janani Suraksha Yojana, a mother having an institutional delivery in a government hospital is paid Rs. 1,400, while the Sahiya, the government appointed...