Results for: jharkhand education
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...
Pregnant women of Jharkhand village walk 16 kms for check-up and delivery
Mahamuda Bibi writhes in pain from the labour contractions that have started, but she has to stay strong till she reaches the hospital. However, unlike most urban women, who are driven there in an ambulance, or a vehicle, Mahamuda will have to walk 16 km from her village, Faridpur Pakurdiar...
Video Volunteers Impact: Water connection restored in Tati Village
The hand pump had been broken for 6 months. All the sources of water accessible to the community were dirty or not working at all. Shanti Baraik, Video Volunteers correspondent from Jharkhand decided to tackle the issue and got the community together to file an application to the Block Development Officer. The...
Video Volunteers Impact: Thirsty Community of Chainpur gets water supply
At Chainpur village of Jharkhand, over 4,000 households were struggling for water as over 100 hand-pumps of the district had broken down. The residents’ endured dependency on only one hand pump for their daily chores, drinking water and water for their cattle, for two whole years. While there was no...
Sand instead of Cement used for constructing houses under Indra Awas scheme
Families spend nights scared of their houses collapsing down on them as sand was used instead of cement to build houses in Jharkhand. These houses were built under the Indira Gandhi Awas Yojana (IAY), one of the many programmes of the Ministry of Rural Development in India. IAY deals with...
Video Volunteers’ Impact – Jharkhand school gets necessary basic amenities
Water, sanitation and hygiene – the basic amenities are necessary to produce a healthy school environment. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has emphasised on the availability of these necessities with national campaigns like Swachh Bharat: Swachh Vidyalaya, ‘Clean India: Clean Schools’. The campaign document even provides design guidelines...
Lack of clean drinking water troubles this Jharkhand village
Juliani Purty has not had access to clean drinking water for more than what she can remember. She and 10 more families located in Longkata, Bandgaon, Jharkhand struggle for a sip of clean, hygienic water. During the summers’, the community well dries up, forcing the women to carry water from...
Jharkhand: The school which always remains shut
India is one of the ten fastest growing economies in the world. It is also poised to be the youngest nation in terms of its population by 2020. However, India also has the largest number of illiterates in the world, at 37 percent of the global total. In the past...