An unregulated stone-crushing industry is turning Bundelkhand to dust. “My land has become infertile. Earlier I could feed my family with what I sowed, like wheat and chana etc,”…
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Not just the flood victims, but rescuers too left in the lurch
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 29, 2019“We were on duty round-the-clock and for 24 hours a day, for the 23 days that the floods ravaged the affected villages. We would not even get time off to…
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Bundelkhand & BeyondDevelopmentEnglishताजा खबरेंफ़ीचर्ड
When floods upend life as you know it
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 26, 2019Gulabkali’s family owns three bigha land in Chitrakoot district’s Mawai Kala village. In 2019, her father-in-law’s demise and the floods have delivered a double blow to the family. Their crops…
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A school of hope : Bheem Patshala
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 25, 2019A resident of Pandari village in Banda district of U.P is trying to change the fate of its people through education called Bheem Pathshala . The Path of Max Resistance: Richa…
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Where India stands on World Pneumonia Day 2019
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 12, 2019Shivbali Singh, a resident of Kandeha, isn’t amused with the provocation that it is World Pneumonia Day. “Instead of celebrating these special days, the government needs to do a lot…
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Life after floods – Aftermath of an overflowing Yamuna in Chitrakoot
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 31, 2019Sanuj’s family has been living in a mud house in Mawaikal village, Mau block of Chitrakoot district for over three generations. This year like most other years, his village has…
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government has planned this year’s Diwali celebrations in Ayodhya on a scale set to surpass its two previous editions in terms of grandiosity: a…
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Swachh Bharat and ODF titles : A deliberate design to divide and rule
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 2, 2019Premnarayan Rajput is the son of Ramkali, the Pradhan of Baraimanpur village in Mahua block of Banda in Uttar Pradesh. Without caution perhaps, he admitted something that not many panchayat…
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Why the Uttar Pradesh village at the centre of the Chapatti-salt midday meal row is still seething
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 21, 2019On August 22, Pawan Jaiswal, a journalist with Jansandesh Times in Uttar Pradesh, released a video showing schoolchildren at Siyur village in Mirzapur district being served a meager meal of…
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No power even a year after the meters have been installed in Gajwa Mujra
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 10, 2019Gujwa Majra, Chitrakoot: Turgwan Gram Panchayat’s Gujwa Majra village stands as an example of how hastily drawn conclusions of 100% rural electrification are misleading. Around 50 houses in the Gujwa Majra village have never been connected…