Tag: Poorest Areas Civil Society
Rowdy Road
The main road which connects the Pandeypur area of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to rest of the district has been in the worse of shapes for 4 years. This route is used by more than 5000 people twice a day at least. Add to that the buses going in and...
The Fallen Village
Ambai Bujurga village in the Kara block of Kaushambi district, Uttar Pradesh is slowly getting popular as the ‘fallen village’ due to the sheer number of deaths, occurring due to lack of a proper road or even a rough path. For lack of a better word, the ‘roads’ are rowdy,...
The Road to Ration
875 people reside in Takhtpur village but only 135 people have BPL cards. They have to walk 4 km to another village, to access the Ration Distributor. It is just not the distance but the terrible condition of the way, which makes it even more difficult to carry ration back...
Pipelines of Garbage
In Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, people are getting unhealthy water through broken plastic pipelines and are forced to use this water every day for all the purposes. Just above the plastic pipelines there is a huge garbage pit where all people dump their garbage. The metal pipelines where...
Step By Step, Drop By Drop
Jagdishpur community in Uttar Pradesh currently lacks easy access to clean drinking water and the situation is only getting worse for people like Santuram who have physical limitations. VV-PACS Community Correspondent Shabnam Begum from Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh reports. Call to Action: You can help by calling T. Ram, Member...
Discrimination During Festival | ARTICLE 17
VV-PACS Community Correspondent Gyanti Kumari from Siwan district, Bihar reports on the often unseen and mostly unreported untouchability practiced during the Chhath Puja in Bihar. ‘Chhath’ in Bihar is celebrated with a lot of fervor & excitement. But the age old practice of untouchability plays a spoiler for many. “We...