Reportage Give us work for wages, demand former manual scavengers in UP’s Jalaun In Jalaun district, more than 500 women have given up manual scavenging, after receiving Rs 40,000 from the government to...
Gaon Connection Survey|Reportage The First Shot: Who should get the COVID19 vaccine first? Gaon Connection asked rural Indians in a survey Over 43% of the rural respondents said the coronavirus vaccine should be administered first to the doctors and nurses. Thirty...
Reportage|Gaon Connection Survey Six in every 10 rural Indians said awareness drives on COVID-19 conducted in their villages: Gaon Connection Survey Were enough awareness campaigns and sensitisation programmes held in rural India to inform villagers about the COVID-19 pandemic? A recent...
Reportage Untouched by Education: Casteism, untouchability and discrimination keep children of the manual scavenger community out of the classrooms According to the 2011 census, there are 3.26 lakh Valmiki community households in Uttar Pradesh of which 2.19 lakh households...
Reportage Affront to dignity: Dalit women still carry human excreta for wheat, roti and pickles in UP A provision of Rs 12,300 crore has been made for ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ in the general budget of 2020-21. An...
Reportage A Culture of Protest: Is taking to the streets the only way of getting justice for rape victims? On October 30 in Vaishali district, Bihar, a girl was allegedly raped and then set on fire. She died an...
Reportage A rape not just impacts the victim and her family, but has wider repercussions as it keeps the girl child away from school In 2019, every day, 14 girls below 18 years of age were raped in India, records NCRB. Meanwhile, about 40%...
Reportage Fields of fear: How safe are women farmers and agricultural labourers from gender violence? More than 2/3rd of agricultural labourers are women, yet the field is a distinctly unsafe space for them, with 78%...
Reportage Uttar Pradesh reports 11 rape cases daily. How sensitive is its police force towards survivors? According to a recently released report that studied 14 cases of rape, it took 11 anywhere between two and 228...
Reportage Surging waters of Chambal River devour thousands of hectares of ripe crops every year Chambal River floods thousands of hectares of cultivated land and ruins kharif crop every year. Farmers in hundreds of villages...
