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Primary Health Centre ‘Running’ For Months Without Any Doctors!
No water, no electricity and no doctors in this primary health centre in Jharkhand.
Bonded Labourers Walked 500 Miles Over Four Days To Reach Home
24 men were trapped in inhumane conditions working twenty four hours a day.
Rains and Pests Eat Away Into Maharastra Farmers Earnings
Farmers in India are one of the most disadvantaged lot with very less earnings and many challenges to deal with.
75 Years Since Independence, Village in Chhattisgarh Still to Get Clean Drinking Water
What is the meaning of Independence for remote corners of India if no development has reached them?
Chhattisgarh: This Farmer Profits Less Than $200 After Six Months Of Farming
This story offers a small window into the whys of the ongoing farmers protests in India.
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VV Correspondent Intervenes To Get Water Storage For Rajasthan Community
What use is a water connection if you can't store the water and make it available for later use?
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Police Conniving With Accused Who Allegedly Burnt His Wife Alive
A woman is brutally killed in West Bengal and police, instead of nabbing the culprits is working with them.
Chhattisgarh Village Uses Loudspeakers To Continue School During Pandemic | COVID-19
Ever heard of using loudspeakers to teach an entire village's kids?
Our Land, Our Coal!: Protesters Use Gandhi As Inspiration For Coal Satyagraha
It is estimated that the area of Pelma, Chhattisgarh holds about 40 million tonnes of coal that the corporates are eyeing.
Fixing India: Land Allotted On Paper, But Possession Took 22 Long Years!
If not for the intervention by our community correspondent, the poor villagers would have continued paying taxes for a land they didn't own.
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Kashmir Exported 2 Million Tons of Apple a Year Before COVID-19 Struck
Millions of lives were directly dependent on the once flourishing Apple farming industry of Kashmir.
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Mumbai’s Municipal Body Destroys 60 Shanties Without Notice!
The richest municipal body of Asia doesn't care about its poor residents and makes them homeless overnight.
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Migrants Returning to Mumbai After COVID-19 Lockdown Are Struggling For Survival
With the lockdown officially over but the pandemic still raging, how do the urban poor in India survive?
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Destroyed by Fire, VV Correspondent Helps Dalit Man Resurrect His Life
Anil Kumar Saroj fought a long bureaucratic battle to ensure Ramlal can restart his life with dignity.
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Fed Up Villagers Boycott Voting in #BiharElections2020
Bihar villagers were promised drainage and roads in the last state polls. It remains an unfulfilled promise elections after elections.
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700 West Bengal Families Have Lost Home, Farmland to Soil Erosion
A river barrage project over Ganga in West Bengal has slowly destroyed the lives of those living in low-lying areas of the project.
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IMPACT | VV Correspondent Helps Elderly Couple Live Life of Dignity
The elderly couple from Rajasthan had medical issues and could not look out for themselves.
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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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Hathras Protests Reach Mumbai Amid Calls For Justice
Many civil society organisations are questioning the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh.
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Fixing India | The Story of A Medical Sub-Centre, Its Neglect and Revival
Community correspondent Laxmi Kaurav did a near-impossible task of restarting a medical sub-centre closed for decades.
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Asha Worker from Odisha Attacked and Beaten up by Villagers in Puri
Nirmala Dakua was surrounded by more than 500 villagers when she went to retrieve a COVID-19 positive patient.
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Medha Patkar Speaks Exclusively to Video Volunteers on Farmers Bill
More than 200 farmer organisations protested in Maharashtra against the new farmers bills.
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VV Correspondent Intervenes to Ensure Ration Delivery in Uttar Pradesh Village
Ambedkar Nagar villagers were not receiving their quota of ration until a VV correspondent intervened.
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A Kashmiri Doctor Paints on Chinar Leaves to Beat COVID-19 Stress
A MBBS student from Kashmir, stressed by exams and the pandemic, uses art to unwind.
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Even After Seven Decades of Independence, Villages of India Yet To Be Electrified
The Union government's Soubhagya Jyoti scheme aimed to electrify every Indian village by Mar 2019. But that ambition is yet to be realised.
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Chhattisgarh Tribals Denied Land Lease Citing Lack of Papers
A new law by the Chhattisgarh government threatens to rob more than 60 tribal families of the right to their land.
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Madhya Pradesh Labourers Quarantined In A Hut With No Facilities | COVID 19
Labourers in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, who have returned from metro cities, have been quarantined in appalling conditions.
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Crores Spent on Advertisements, But Not a Paisa On Public Spaces’ Maintenance | COVID 19
The Maharashtra state administration has spent a lot of public money on raising awareness about COVID-19. But on ground, slums of Nashik remain in a bad state.
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Malda Locals In Fear, Soil Erosion Might Take Away Everything From Them
Soil erosion in rural West Bengal is taking away the only thing they could hold onto - their land.
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Medical Negligence Took Another Life in West Bengal | COVID 19
Medical negligence by West Bengal health authorities cost a man, showing symtoms of COVID-19, his life.
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IMPACT | Illegal Riverbed Mining Stopped in RanbiAra, Shopian, Kashmir
Video Volunteers reporting helps to stop illegal mining of sand and minerals from a Shopian riverbed in Kashmir
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Kashmir’s Cricket Bat Industry Provides Livelihood to Thousands
Kashmir and its bat industry, one of the only two regions in the world where willow grows, provides livelihood to thousands of people in the valley.
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After Seven Decades of Independence West Bengal Tea Garden Workers Yet to be Free From...
While India celebrated its 74th Independence Day, workers at Madhu Tea Garden and several other tea estates in Alipurduar, Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts marked the day with launching their campaign for basic rights. Community Correspondent Harihar brings us this news report from the thick of the action. He grew...
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West Bengal Health Workers On Hunger Strike
Health workers from several districts of West Bengal are on hunger strike demanding better salaries and permanent commission.
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Odisha’s Transgender Community Helps Tide Over COVID-19 Pandemic
Despite lack of respect and fundamental rights, transgenders are helping the Indian society where every effort counts
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Chhattisgarh Villagers Protest Against Hundreds Lining Up to Buy Liquor
Chhattisgarh women protest against a liquor shop where hundreds of men line up everyday to buy liquor.
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Marital Rape During COVID Pandemic
Our community correspondent reports on the 'silent pandemic' of domestic violence
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Bad Health, Unemployment in COVID 19 Times Leads Maharashtra Villager to Suicide
Madhukar Harmkar, a 60 year old daily wage worker from Maharashtra died by suicide after he could not support his family in times of Covid-19 lockdown.
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IMPACT | VV Correspondent Ensures Biometric Scan Suspension for Ration Disbursement in Kashmir
Locals from Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir were forced to scan their fingerprints for ration despite a suspension order from the government.
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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.
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IMPACT | VV Correspondent Intervenes to Restore Water Supply to a Hamlet in Rajasthan
Barawa, a hamlet in Rajasthan was suffering from water shortage until a VV correspondent decided to do something
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Low Wages, Lockdown Lead West Bengal Tea Garden Workers to Protest
Tea garden workers, who migrated to cities in search of better opportunities, have returned to their villages in tea gardens of North Bengal and have very little work.
When A Family Member Tests Positive – Part 2
Video Volunteers' correspondent Amol Lalzare brings the second part of his experience inside a quarantine centre in Mumbai.
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Rajasthan ASHA Workers Work at ₹30 Per Day During COVID 19
ASHA workers of Rajasthan are risking their lives to work during COVID19 pandemic for a mere 30 rupees per day.
Poor Mother Took Loan to Bring her Sons Back
Mother of Prasanta Naik took a loan to bring her sons back who were working in Chennai.
Video Volunteers Correspondent Arranges Food for Waste Pickers in Nashik, Maharashtra
Maya Khodve, a community correspondent from Nashik worked to provide food and relief for people affected by lockdown.
Hit By Dual Lockdowns, Kashmiri Hawkers In A State of Crisis
India’s Kashmir valley has been in a state of lockdown, much before the COVID-19 imposed lockdown in the rest of India, since August 5, 2019. It has hit street vendors, hawkers and daily wagers the hardest. 27 year old Suhail Ahmad, a resident of Shopian used to sell different commodities...
Inhuman Conditions at the Quarantine Centre in Malda, West Bengal
Labourers returning from other states have been quarantined in deplorable conditions in West Bengal's Malda.
Four Years Since A Man From Bengal Tea Gardens Moved Out To Work And Never...
Human trafficking in West Bengal's tea gardens continues to wreak havoc and destroy lives.
‘Democracy is Power of the People, Not Of Those Ruling’
Press freedom in Kashmir is increasingly under threat and we get a sense of it in an interview with the executive editor of Kashmir Times.
Correspondents Take Charge In Making Video Volunteers Into A Community Media Movement
Ever since the formation of Video Volunteers (VV), we always wanted to create an organization that was run by our most important stakeholders – the Community Correspondents (CC). We aimed for a structure that was non-hierarchical and where every CC played a role in shaping and transforming VV into a...
In West Bengal, One Woman Is Reviving A Centuries Old Tradition of Women Working As...
In modern India, it is unheard that a woman officiated as the priest of a religious event.
Folks From 18 Villages Cross This River Everyday, Yet There is No Bridge
Many applications later, hundreds of people continue to suffer.
Pregnant Women Deliver on Floor As Jharkhand Sub-Centre Has No Beds
Formal applications to get new beds have been sent thrice to the local administration. But the situation hasn't changed.
Bihar Farmers Know Why The Farm Laws Are Against Them | Farmers Protest
Often being accused of being a toy in the hands of the political opposition, farmers from Bihar show their understanding and knowledge of the farm laws.