NEWS BY THOSE WHO LIVE IT
Discrimination steals children off a normal school life
A school in Surendranagar, Gujrat has been serving mid-day meals to its students based on their caste. Panva Primary School, during mid-may meals, served as part of a school meal programme by the government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide, was openly discriminating against...
Governement turns blind eye towards the manual sacengers
Three young sanitation workers enter a sewer in Dhrangadhra town in Gujarat without any protective gear. This practice of manual cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling, human excreta from dry latrines, open drains or pits and sewers without protective gear is criminalised by The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and...
Five Kashmiri women write about mass-rape that happened twenty years ago in Kashmir
“Do you remember Kunan Poshpora? a book by five young Kashmiri women Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid and Natasha Rather investigates the fateful night of mass-rape of over 80 women by the Army in the villages of Kunan and Poshpora in 1991. The book published by Zubaan...
NREGA- The failing lifeline of Rural Employment
“Give us work and we will work”. “They give the work to contractors and we all just sit here.” “I have worked for 27-28 days but haven’t yet received my wages.” “If we have received NREGA wages on time, we could have gotten the treatment.” NREGA has been the world’s...
Paper toilets constructed in Rajasthan
One hundred and seventy-two families in Kaliwas Village of Rajasthan got toilets, but they exist only on paper. During 2003-2004, 172 BPL (Below Poverty Line) families of Kaliwas village were sanctioned funds for toilets. According to official records, these toilets were built, but the reality is a far cry from...
Impact: 250 MGNREGA workers get paid after 18 months
Ratna Roy, a labourer from West Bengal had toiled hard under the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA to earn her promised daily bread. But her efforts were in vain as the administration of Cooch Behar, West Bengal did not pay her wages for one and a half years. Just like Ratna...
450 people cheated of Rehabilitation benefits
Fifty-four families of Amlali village of Barwani in Madhya Pradesh were rehabilitated in 2011. But none of these families have been given basic facilities to ensure that they can live in comfort. These settlements have been made along hills where water can enter the houses in times of rain. There...