Community Correspondents
Videos from Harihar
No Relief for Families Affected by Human-Elephant Conflict
The tea gardens of West Bengal have become a hotbed for human-elephant conflict. Affected families continue to wait for compensation.
A Community’s Decade Long Struggle for Water in West Bengal
North Bengal suffers from an acute water shortage and from water contamination but both the government and the tea industry have been slow to act.
Human Elephant Conflict on the Rise while Families Await Compensation
The Dooars are known to be human animal conflict zones; infrastructure development, illegal mining and land fragmentation are only adding to the problem.
Tea Gardens of North Bengal: A Hotbed of Human Trafficking
Tea gardens that once brewed the world-famous Darjeeling tea have now become a hotbed for trafficking, owing to the undermining of labour rights and rising deprivation.
Community School Strives to Keep Native Language Alive
In the tea gardens of West Bengal, an Adivasi community school is taking the first steps to preserve its native language amidst political and cultural turmoil.
Trafficked at 11, Pregnant Teen Comes Home to Police Inaction
For nine long years that Nagma was missing, the police took no action to trace her and is doing little now to punish her traffickers.
No Water for Bengal Tea Garden Despite Repeated Petitions
Some of the richest tea gardens in the country cannot even assure clean drinking water to their employees, the local government is doing nothing either.
Only Iron-Contaminated Water for Village at Himalayan Foothills
For three years, this Bengal village has been thirsting. The handpumps spurt harmful, iron-rich water, and there is no pipeline water supply in sight.