Tag: Kashmir
The Student Teacher Ratio and School Area needs improvement
In this video of UPS Manwan Awoora school, Kupwara, Kashmir, the community correspondent Pir Azhar shows us that there are nine classes for 250 students, and due to lack of space, the lower primary classes are held outside in the open. Also the school has only 7 teachers.
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IMPACT: Proper Electricity Infrastructure Installed in This Shopian Village
It took 4 years of constant follow up of Community Correspondent (CC) Basharat Amin with the Electricity Department to install the high-tension electric wires from makeshift poles to proper ones in Manloo area of Shopian District, Kashmir.
Displaced during 1965 Indo-Pak war, inhabitants of this Kupwara village fear for their future
Doban is a backward area, 40 kilometres from district headquarters, situated in Lolab Valley. They do not have any hospitals or schools here and hardly any other source of livelihood than rearing cattle.
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Lack of Bridge Costs Life Of A Young Man In Shopian
The above video is from Shopian, about the death of a 26 year old youth, drowned in the river while carrying Rice and Corn on his back, is heartbreaking.
COVID 19 Second Wave Diaries: Economic shutdown leaves rural livelihoods in the lurch | COVID...
With lives and livelihoods crippled by the Second Wave, vulnerable communities toil on looking for a better future.
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Dissent in Democracy: Community Correspondents Discuss the State of the Country on Gandhi’s Birthday
In recent times, there has been a clampdown on voices of dissent in India. On Gandhi Jayanti, correspondents shared their experiences reporting about issues that may ruffle feathers, and decided that Gandhi would have approved.
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Illegal Sand Mining on RambiAra River in South Kashmir Goes on Unchecked
Illegal sand-mining in a tributary of Jhelum poses long term threat not just for the environment but for south Kashmir's sustainability.
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A Peek Into the Life and Culture of Kashmir’s Gurez Valley
If Jammu and Kashmir is remote and disconnected, wait till you read about Kashmir's Gurez valley.