Sanuj’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…
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Affordable Housing Is Only for Those Who Can Afford a Bribe in UP’s Sarumal
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 3, 2019Lalitpur, (Uttar Pradesh): In Sarumal village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur district, residents report that they are being deprived of housing under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) because of their…
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Six farmers have committed suicide in the past fortnight in Chitrakoot Mandal
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 26, 2019“He had gone to sow their rice in the morning, came back and collected the gobar. Then he asked for water for a bath. I gave it to him post…
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How not to ‘revive’ a craft : Lessons from Gaurahari, Mahoba
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 20, 2019In 2018, the stone-work artisans of Gaurahari village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba were lauded by the president and chief minister Adityanath for their work at a crafts summit in Lucknow.…
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Continued impact of skewed Family Planning policies: A case from Faizabad
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 11, 2019Veena Soni could become just another statistic in India’s high fatality rate by female sterilisation. The young mother of two, who had undergone a tubectomy in 2014 at the local…
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Delayed transfers and centralized Aadhaar payments compound problems of NREGA Workers
द्वारा खबर लहरिया July 6, 2019Three members from Mahari’s family including her son, daughter and her own self had taken part in NREGA’s work this year in their village of Bambiya of Tindwari block in…