Community Correspondents

Nitu Chakhia

Nitu’s primary area of interest is working with slum communities to help deal with the problems they face regarding electricity, roads, water and drainage. She feels that the political leaders claim that they have done work in these communities but the reality is different. She has found a new tool in video which can help her document issues that have been neglected for years by the other media.

Videos from Nitu

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Anganwadi Operating from the Porch

 
/ April 17, 2014

There is an anganwadi (child care centre) In ward number 43 of Bhubhaneshwar Block, Odisha that runs on the porch of the local primary school. What started as a makeshift arrangement has turned into a long drawn out process and has left the anganwadi worker as well as parents annoyed...

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Road to Bhubaneshwar

 
/ March 19, 2014

Close to the capital of Odisha is ward ward no.1 of Shikharchandi which is administered by the Bhubhaneshwar Municipality Corporation. The road which connects the whole community to the rest of the state, primarily Bhubhanshwar, the capital of the state, is in a bad condition. The community is facing problems...

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Ostracised Again: Leper Colony Demands Sanitation

 
/ March 14, 2014

On a winding walk between rubble and an overflowing drain dotted with plastic that never decomposes, lives Sabita Kaushali in Patia Village’s Leper colony. Forgotten by the rest of the world, the families are forced to live in unsanitary conditions. Patia is not really a village, it is a semi...

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