Systemic failures of the country’s largest employment scheme leads to isolated villages in Bundelkhand, such as Kumhedi in Lalitpur The recently released state budget for Uttar Pradesh allocated Rs.…
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New Mothers Forced to Squat Outdoors
द्वारा खबर लहरिया March 11, 2019The future to a healthy rural maternal health scenario seems locked, literally. A report from the delivery ward of a Mahoba PHC “This door is locked, see?” points out…
For farmers already reeling from crop Failure in Lalitpur According to Pappu, a farmer in the village of Leheren in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, only 10% of…
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Solution to Malnutrition? Free Chicks!
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 26, 2019The inner workings of an absurd scheme, from a Chitrakoot village. In May 2018, the villages of Koniya and Bargah in Chitrakoot saw a unique kind of government welfare…
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Ground realities of the 2019 Swacch Survekshan in UP
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 21, 2019The 2019 Swacch Survekshan was conducted between 4th and 31st January in 4,237 towns and cities across the country to evaluate their sanitation and cleanliness. The supposedly largest cleanliness survey in the…
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An open letter to the Minister of Mines, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 15, 2019How glorious greeting the sun gives the mountain. Why not us? Where mountains attach a lot importance for the people living in urban areas, deprived off the life they have…
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Caution: Never Get Pregnant in Banda
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 11, 2019Janani Suraksha Yojna, PMJAY & the Cracks in the Maternal Rural Health System: The Case Study of Uma and her Stillborn Child January 15 marked Makar Sankranti on the festive…
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Dangerous Daily Forest Treks, the Answer to Water Woes?
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 6, 2019Women in this Manikpur village say they have no other options. In the village of Behla in Manikpur, Chitrakoot, there is no source of safe drinking water. So the women…
Technical snags that become the difference between life and death, is a reality faced by many. A ground report from one such village in Chitrakoot. In the village of Bagrehi…
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Geo Tagging Scam: A corruption-laden geo-tagging drive is underway in this village of Banda
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 4, 2019An ongoing extortion in the village of Nivaeech, located in Tindwari block of district Banda in Uttar Pradesh, goes by a local name. It’s called the “geo-tagging wala” scheme or…