Mahua town, District Banda. 25-30 children have been given laptops promised by the chief minister. But the children are having many problems in using the laptops. Chaggu, from this town,…
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- DevelopmentEnglishमुज़फ्फरनगर: दंगों के बाद
Winter Takes Toll on Children
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 13, 2013Muzaffarnagar and Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh. Relief camps here are still filled with people after riots that occurred a month and a half ago. All of these people are from…
Jawahar Nagar, Kabrai Block, District Mahoba. 50 people from here claim that their wells come within the area submerged under the Arjun Dam Project. These farmers have been making rounds…
Manikpur, Ramnagar and Mau Block. District Chitrakoot. The Irrigation Department has not been releasing water in the canals of villages of these blocks, leading to an impact on thousands of…
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Voices from the relief camps of Muzaffarnagar
द्वारा खबर लहरिया October 15, 2013Sexual Violence in Muzaffarnagar: Six FIRs Filed “It must have been twelve-twelve-thirty in the afternoon. I was cooking, when suddenly some people jumped down from the terrace into the house.…
Mahoba district, Kabrai block, Dadhatmaf Village. 50 men and women from this village worked on a canal for a month nine months ago under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment…
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‘They Threatened Us to Agree to a Compromise’
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 16, 2013[Cases like this are common in Bundelkhand, where violence, and more so gender and caste-based violence, is so deeply embedded in the social and cultural fabric, that it is almost…
- DevelopmentEnglishचित्रकूट
Sakshar Bharat: The Reality Behind the Sheen of Statistics
द्वारा खबर लहरिया September 9, 2013“Sakshar Bharat? vo khatam nahi ho gaya?” (Sakshar Bharat? Isn’t that over?) is Amit Dwivedi’s response when asked what he knows about the Sakshar Bharat programme. Amit is from Oonchadi,…
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Villagers Cross Five Rivers to Reach Nearest Town
द्वारा खबर लहरिया August 14, 2013Sitamarhi district, Block Sonbarsa in Bihar has around ten villages that are connected to the nearest town by one road. But to reach that road, the villagers have to cross…
This year rainfall has been very erratic. Farmers are suffering due to early and delayed rainfall. The earth is parched and the crops are breathing their last. According to agriculture…