A village in Chitrakoot declared Open Defecation Free, even as residents insist all they’ve got in the name of Swachh Bharat is humiliation and empty promises. “What is the problem,…
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Protest on the Ghats of Benares
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 30, 2019Development has always been an elusive concept as far as our tribal communities are concerned. A report echoing issues faced by the forest dwellers of rural Uttar Pradesh “600…
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Want to Learn? Pick up the Broom! A day in the life of middle school students in a Benaras village
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 18, 2019Every morning, children in Chiraigaon in Varanasi don their red and grey school uniforms and head to Barthakalon Secondary School—to sweep, mop and wash it. “Our school is dirty,”…
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Outsourcing Basic Healthcare: Want medicines meant to be handed out free? Well, buy them, suggests the local PHC in Banda’s Fatehganj
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 8, 2019“We buy most of the medicines from private pharmacies, they don’t give us most of them,” said Chunni Lal, a Jabrapur resident who had travelled to the Naveen Primary Health…
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Inside a Sterilization Camp in Mahoba
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 4, 2019The horrors that await the aftermath of an incentivized family planning programme In Kabrai Mahoba, the Community Health Centre was recently abuzz with activity. Two men hauled an unconscious…
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Monkey Menace in Varanasi
द्वारा Pooja Pande December 21, 2018The Primary Health Centre in the small village of Chirai, Varanasi has a serious simian problem. Monkeys have settled down on the roofs and are terrorizing its occupants and nearby…
Exodus in a Lalitpur village marks a crucial failure of the state system In the small village of Khitwas in block Birdha, Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, nearly half of its…
News reports of “starvation deaths” have been coming in a steady trickle over the past few years. One particularly tragic episode was that of eleven-year old Santoshi Kumari in Jharkhand.…
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No Shelter from the Storm
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 5, 2018The Khabar Lahariya news team went auditing a prominent old age home and a woman’s shelter in Chitrakoot The horror that was housed in the guise of shelter in the…
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In the Name of NaMo
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 21, 2018Across the districts of Bundelkhand, in some of the most under-developed villages, Khabar Lahariya examines the on-ground impact and efficacy of four of the Modi-led BJP government’s key flagship “pro-poor”…