Video Volunteers community correspondent Anil Kumar Saroj has been working with marginalised communities for a very long time now. In this episode of Fixing India, we see how he helped Ramlal, a man belonging to the musahar community from Uttar Pradesh receive compensation.
The road towards receiving the compensation amounting to about 8 lakhs towards relief and rehabilitation of Ramlal wasn't an easy one. Anil struggled for more than 8 months to get all government IDs destroyed by fire, reissued so that Ramlal could encash the compensation cheque released by the local district magistrate's office.
Watch the full episode to know the story.
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