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Dissent in Democracy: Community Correspondents Discuss the State of the Country on Gandhi’s Birthday
In recent times, there has been a clampdown on voices of dissent in India. On Gandhi Jayanti, correspondents shared their experiences reporting about issues that may ruffle feathers, and decided that Gandhi would have approved.
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IMPACT | VV Correspondent Ensures Biometric Scan Suspension for Ration Disbursement in Kashmir
Locals from Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir were forced to scan their fingerprints for ration despite a suspension order from the government.
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Micro-entrepreneurs Will Remain Hit Even After Lockdown | COVID 19 | Rajasthan
Amidst the nationwide second phase lockdown the daily wage workers living in Delwara, Rajhasthan fear the unsurity of jobs post lockdown and the subsequent hunger.
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Poor fearful of being termed ‘Stateless’ – NRC
A Community of daily wage workers consisting of men, women and children living in Patna are being forced to prove their citizenship in the state.
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Impact: 40 Beneficiaries of PM’s Ujjawala Scheme, gets LPG Refilled
A video helped the Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries, who were struggling to refill the gas cylinders for the last six months in a village in Maharashtra. Under the scheme titled Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, (PMUY) families in Mangali village, Brahmapuri, Maharastra, got their first cylinder of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). A...
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Fifty Families in Maharashtra Have no Houses, Just Toilets
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Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana promises houses for all by 2019 in Maharashtra. This is a cruel joke for 50 families living out of tents for the past thirty years in Risod.
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Mukhya Mantri Kanya Vivah Yojana – A welfare scheme or scam?
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More than 1800 women of Jamui district, Bihar have not yet received their entitlement under the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Vivah Yojana, since September 2013.
Forest dwellers in Bihar fight for their right
The Forests Rights Act (FRA) was passed about 10 years ago, even now its implementation is patchy and dependent on the initiative of individual district administrators. The FRA recognises that forest dwellers’ have rights over land that they have been occupying and their communities have rights over use and management...