Tag: citizen journalism
Video Volunteers Receives Encouraging Response To Its Buland Bol Program
Free media training course Buland Bol aims to train hundreds of people in becoming the voice of their communities.
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,...
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...
VV Impact: Women fight against discrimination, win work in NREGA after two years
Women of Keshavpur village, Uttar Pradesh had been denied work under NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) for two years because of the patriarchal views of the authorities of the region. Under NREGA, every member of rural India, who demands work has the right to get work. However, the employment...
Women bring water home after six months
In spite of water connections in the area, women of Shramiknagar, an area in Nashik, would wake up every day at 5 am to fetch water from a nearby tank for six months. Reason being that the officials would refuse to supply water to their area, which is home to...
Apparently, this is a ‘Road’ in West Bengal
Potholes are an everyday occurrence on Indian roads – big or small in most cities and villages. In big cities, when one finds such stretches of road travelers take an alternative route but what if there are no alternative routes? For 11,000 inhabitants of a village called Nagrakata in West...
Community Correspondent Diaries- Amit Topno
Amit Topno shares his experiences on making his first film Hungry Elephants Raid Rural Jharkhand Elephants are a real menace where I stay. Everyone is very worried about the situation as our lives are affected on a daily basis. Agriculture is our mainstay in Nichitpur but all farming activities are...