Video Volunteers – Page 101 – Many Voices, Many Indias

Scarce amenities near a tourist spot

In Gram Panchayat Ratega (Bijakasa), Bastar District, the Government has declared a Waterfall as a tourist spot. But in and around that area for about 5 kilometres, the residents are facing acute water shortage and other basic amenities, such as all weather roads etc.

Solving Land Rights Issues

16 families from Odisha’s Sundergarh district were paying taxes for a piece of land allotted to them 22 years ago through government schemes. But in reality the land was allotted only on paper. They did not even know the location of the land for which they had been paying taxes for. It was only after the efforts of Video Volunteers community correspondent Bideshini Patel that the families were actually given the physical possession of the land.

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IU Impact: Community Video Brings Wage Equality

Rohini Pawar / October 4, 2011

600 female laborers in Maharashtra get equal pay because of our Community Correspondent Rohini Pawar’s video

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Life saving equipment a dream for sewage workers

Rohini Pawar / September 27, 2011

Imagine walking around on a hot, humid summer day. You feel sweaty, tired, and dehydrated. Now imagine if you were unblocking sewers full of human excrement with your bare hands in such heat. Sewer cleaners in Walhe village of Maharashtra continue to work with human waste, refuse, and toxic fumes...

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