Since 2005, the Government of India has launched a series of initiatives like the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and JSSK to address high maternal mortality, and the SRS surveys over the last decade show that maternal mortality has been steadily… Continue Reading →
NEWS BITS April 11, 2014 , Noamundi: On Thursday, in a joint operation led by Chumpua SDPO P K Jena Odisha police and SDPO B Kullu Jagarnathpur, Jharkhand police raided a village Turli situated on border of both the states and destroyed… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Alok Gupta More than 200 people in 14 villages near Roro hill in Jharkhand are dying slowly because of an abandoned asbestos mine Asbestos dust from the defunct mine has turned the Roro hill white (Photos: Alok Gupta) During a… Continue Reading →
Aarefa Johari · Since January 26, close to 500 prisoners in the jails of Jharkhand, Nagpur and Odisha have been on hunger strikes to highlight gaps in India’s criminal justice system On Monday, 169 prisoners in Maharashtra’s Nagpur Central Jail… Continue Reading →
Last November, 60 tribal girls from Chhattisgarh were rescued from a factory in Tamil Nadu. The episode put the spotlight on Bastar’s ugly secret: 9,000 girls have been trafficked in the past decade PRIYANKA KAUSHAL 2014-02-08 , Issue 6 Volume… Continue Reading →
Mission possible Author(s): Jitendra , Alok Gupta , Sayantan Bera Jan 31, 2014 | The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and Jharkhand in India, and Bangladesh and… Continue Reading →
Priyanka Loach Priyanka is a medical doctor, associated with the Indian Doctors for Peace and Democracy(IDPD). This article is adapted from her presentation in the South Asia conference organised in Kathmandu (Jan 14-16, 2014) by the International Physicians for Prevention… Continue Reading →
To Shri Rajiv Ekka Secretary, Social Welfare Govt. of Jharkhand Dear Shri Ekka, The Working Group for Children Under Six (of the Right to Food Campaign and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan) has been closely following the efforts… Continue Reading →
Sandeep Pai, Hindustan Times December 29, 2013 Mahatma Gandhi urged us, in our moments of doubt, to recall the face of the poorest person we may have seen and ask ourselves whether the step we are contemplating is likely… Continue Reading →
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