Dalit sanitation worker died of heart attack, says Agra police; family members allege “police brutality”
The state government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the family of deceased Arun Valmiki, and five police personnel have been suspended.
Sumit Yadav
UP Election 2022: Rising cost of living, women’s safety, farmers’ welfare – Akhilesh Yadav highlights them in his ‘Vijay Rath Yatra’
On October 12, Akhilesh Yadav set the Samajwadi Party campaign rolling for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The two-day Vijay Rath Yatra, which concludes today, will cover about 65 kilometres from Kanpur southwards to Hamirpur district in the state as well as Jalaun and Kanpur Dehat districts. Gaon Connection followed the red bus in Kanpur to feel the pulse of the crowd.
Sumit Yadav
Back To School: Classrooms have reopened in Uttar Pradesh, but where are the textbooks, ask students
While Uttar Pradesh has thrown open primary schools on September 1, students are yet to receive their books and stationery to start their classes after 18 months. Gaon Connection spoke with students and teachers of government schools in Unnao and Barabanki.
Sumit Yadav
With vaccine hesitancy cast aside, rural residents of Unnao and Barabanki in UP throng vaccination centres but return empty handed
Just a month back, there were reports of vaccine hesitancy in rural Uttar Pradesh and the state govt was working hard to quell it. Now villagers are travelling long distances but despite making several trips, are not receiving the vaccine, they complain. Details here.
Sumit Yadav
‘It is poison, not water, that comes out of the handpumps’
Of the total 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh, 63 districts have fluoride above the permissible limit and 25 districts are affected by high arsenic, shows 2019 data of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation. Villagers complain they are forced to drink contaminated water or spend money to buy potable water.
Sumit Yadav
At deserted COVID vaccination camps, hapless ASHAs fail to convince hesitant villagers to get the jab
The government is organising free vaccination camps in rural India. ASHAs and ANMs are going house to house to convince villagers to get vaccinated. But villagers refuse to be jabbed. Why? A Gaon Connection report from vaccination camps in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.
Sumit Yadav
No peace yet for the dead in Unnao
Despite a ban by the Uttar Pradesh government on indiscriminate burials being carried out on the banks of the Ganges, the practice continues in Unnao district. The state government has announced a support of Rs 5,000 per cremation for the poor families.
Sumit Yadav
Married at 11, widowed at 26. Funeral rites organiser at the Ganga ghat for 20 years
Sushma Devi courageously works in a traditionally male-dominated bastion to supervise the last rites on the banks of the Ganges in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh. Ever since the second wave of COVID-19, she has had to spend longer hours at the ghats as the dead line up.
Sumit Yadav
Graves by the Ganga: a surge of COVID deaths and moneyless families burying, not cremating their kin
The Ganga ghat at Baksar in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, has seen an unprecedented rush as dead bodies await their turn to be cremated, or buried. As the poor cannot afford the Rs 15,000 required for a cremation, they are choosing to bury their dead for Rs 700.
Sumit Yadav
16 health officials of PHCs and CHCs in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh retract resignation after assurance from CMO
In negotiation talks with the Unnao CMO, the officials were assured that their grievances would be addressed. Following this, the officials took back their decision to resign from their posts of the in-charges of community health centres (CHCs) and primary health centres (PHCs).