Crumbling Infrastructure
India is more connected than ever before. Mobile towers, internet lines and television poles stretch from one end of the country to the other. Yet underneath these growing technological networks, much of India’s rickety infrastructure is in desperate need of attention. Broken roads prevent goods from being transported to market. India’s power grid is frightfully overburdened, especially in densely populated urban areas. Cities are often better off than rural areas, where sagging infrastructure prohibits free economic development. Water lines and sewage leakage create severe pubic health dangers. And while India boasts one of the most extensive railway systems in the world–the cars, tracks and facilities are often dangerously out of date; it is hard pressed to keep pace with the demands of its booming economy. In this section, IndiaUnheard Community Correspondents report on infrastructure.
After Seven Years, a Road Was Constructed in Motigarpur Village, Uttar Pradesh.
In Uttar Pradesh, Motigarpur village’s seven-year woes of bad roads came to an end after a video helped to construct a new road.
Slum Rehabilitation Authority’s Dream Homes in Chembur, Mumbai Crumbles in no Time.
Under The Slum Rehabilitation Scheme, dwellers were moved to Chembur’s apartment complexes where water is dripping and lacks basic facilities.
Bihar’s Saat Nishchay Yojana Cuts a Sorry Picture
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s pet project, the ‘seven commitments’ towards development, does not reach the state’s most disenfranchised communities.
This West Bengal Village has a Dirt Track for a Road
Khairamari village in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district has never had a road, except a dirt track that the government cleared out 20 years ago.
38 Years and Counting: A Village Waits for a Road to be Rebuilt
Four decades have passed since waterlogging destroyed the only road out of Inayatpur, but the government has not implemented any rural development scheme to rebuild it yet.
Two Kilometers From the Seat of the UP Government, a School in Distress
Uttar Pradesh, which has the country’s largest child population, also has the lowest transition rate from primary to upper primary school.
Rural Roads: Bengal Government Fails to Keep Poll Promises
A 4 kilometer long road connecting at least five villages lies broken for four years, despite state-level budget of 3962 crores being allocated for maintaining roads.
Urban Slums: Rebuilding the City of Dreams
The popular image of Mumbai that most of us would conjure up in our minds is the Mumbai of glittering skylines and the one of its kind Sea Link. Mumbai is also known for its urban slums, an image that some of us might conjure up and unfortunately, even romanticise.