June 2014
Denied Special Education
The Right To Education Act 2010 (RTE) guarantees free education for disabled children. The Government is meant to provide a special teacher for children with disabilities as well as specific learning material. However, for partially sighted Rekha Gishbhai this is not the case. Her mother explains how: “She sits on...
Residents Stand up to Corrupt Anganwadi Contractor
Under the Integrated Child Development Scheme, Anganwadis which are an all-encompassing health care centre were established in 1975. Its goals are vital and comprehensive: to combat child nutrition and hunger, to provide basic health care, and to offer pre-school education. The main beneficiaries are young children, teenage girls, pregnant women...
Damned by Sardar Sarovar Dam
Imagine having your village and land flooded for the construction of a dam. Imagine no compensation, house or land being provided in return. Imagine standing up for your rights to only be imprisoned by the authorities. There is no need to imagine for this is the reality of residents from...
Row your sick self to hospital
For past 10 years Baihna Jatan Panchayat has been without adequate health facilities. Imagine being ill and having to muster the energy to cross the dangerous river because no roads, transport or ambulance are available to take you to the nearest hospital. Worse still, during the night, no motorboat operates,...
10 Years No Ration
An annoyed resident Suma Devi informs us, “It has been 10 years since I got married but our ration cards have not been made yet. Everybody excluding us got their ration cards, why are we not getting ours?” Call to Action: This is the question asked by 25 families...
No Clean Water for 10 years
Call to Action: Residents of ManiyarChak village are in desperate need for a water hand pump. Their hand pump stopped working over 10 years ago and the Village Head has not repaired or replaced it since. They are having to travel up to 1 K.M. to fetch water from the...
No Bribe No Free House
Want a house that is supposed to be provided for free by the government? Tough luck. It’s not free. Give me a bribe. Else live on the street or in a make shift hut. An unsafe place that may collapse on you and kill you and your entire family. Money...
No land ownership for dalits
VV-PACS Correspondent Asha Kumari reports from Sagarpur Village, Makhdumpur Block, Jehanabad district, Bihar, “I want these Dalit families to get ownership of the land they reside on, and to get the benefits of various schemes run by the government.” Call to Action: Please put pressure on the Block District...