January 2015
Uprooting a slum for corporate convenience
January 16; Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh A slum near Minto Park in Allahabad is being uprooted and its residents disposed, Community Correspondent Ajeet Bahadur reports on the political and corporate motivations driving this move.
Too much coal, very little water
January 15; Ramgarh, Jharkhand Unchecked mining leads to many adversities, dropping levels of water in the ground is one of them. Parej East Mining Project, in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand, has left the surrounding areas dry. Villagers who work as manual labourers have no access to drinkable water and the only...
Factory pollution choking lives
January 15; Satara, Maharashtra Village of Golegaon in rural Maharashtra is suffering from the toxin pollutions by a factory unit of Sona Alloys Pvt. Limited. “Flowers don’t bloom on our fruit trees due to the black dust,” says Hirabai Gole, resident of Golegaon. Community Correspondent Rohini Pawar reports on the...
Bleak future: No compensation for labourer who lost limbs on the job
This is a story about negligence. At the young age of 19 Pabitra Lohar’s dreams for earning for his family have been cut short after a terrible accident at work left him without 1 leg and 1 hand. Pabitra had migrated from his village in Odisha to the neighbouring state...
No drains in rural Jharkhand
Community Correspondent Shantilata Baa reports from Jharkhand on the problems faced by a community in the lack of a drainage system.
Awaiting disasters of a dam project in Madhya Pradesh
A government dam project is threatening to displace the entire population of a village in Madhya Pradesh. The amount of compensation being offered by the administration isn’t enticing the locals as some of them have lived in Madaiyan village for generations. They will lose their houses, their land, and their...
State of a slum
Mounds of unhygienic garbage surround the Gandhinagar slum in Chattisgarh due to municipality’s ignorance. With no supply of clean water or a drainage system in place, swamps of stagnated water have become breeding grounds for diseases. The number of people with stomach infections in the area has seen a steep rise....
Law of the land
In another incident of illegal acquisition of land, Ramkrishna Forging Company snatched away the agrarian land that belonged to the tribals. This, when there are already 1600 factories in the Adityapur Industrial Belt nearby. In this report, Community Correspondent Sujeeta Tudu talks to the locals, whose land was taken away....