Sajna Bai from Bhikupura village is a member of the Salkan Mata Pragati Samuh for the past five years. Both she and her husband Nanuram have polio and are physically challenged. They have a one-year-old child. Nanuram used to work at a poultry farm in Bhikupura until he lost his job due to the countrywide […]
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COVID Relief
Tiding Over an Immediate Food Crisis
Sajna Bai from Bhikupura village is a member of the Salkan Mata Pragati Samuh for [...]
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The Many Firsts of Village Devjhiri
Nayansingh Sisodia cannot remember the last time work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment [...]
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Activation of MGNREGA During COVID-19 Lockdown
Located in the Bagli block of Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, Jhiri village too was [...]
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Five Hundred Miles Away from Home: An account of violence, apathy and homelessness braved by a migrant worker
India went into its first phase of lockdown owing to COVID 19 on the 25th [...]
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Ensuring Institutional Delivery During a Public Health Crisis
Sonal Bai (name changed), a resident of Guradiya village in the Bagli block of Dewas [...]
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Nayansingh Sisodia cannot remember the last time work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) happened in his village. He has been associated with Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) in the capacity of a mitaan (Community Resource Person) and works with the Health and Nutrition Programme. Devjhiri is a small village situated in […]
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Located in the Bagli block of Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, Jhiri village too was bearing the brunt of the nation-wide lockdown after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the village is primarily dependent on agriculture, the restrictions on commodity trade and movement had dealt a mortal blow to many of the seasonal livelihood […]
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India went into its first phase of lockdown owing to COVID 19 on the 25th March 2020 in a notice period of just four hours. This unprecedented announcement of the lockdown created waves of insecurity and helplessness among many. Of the sections most affected were the itinerant migrant labour, a staggering eight crore of people, […]
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Sonal Bai (name changed), a resident of Guradiya village in the Bagli block of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh was pregnant with her third child when the lockdown happened due to COVID 19. During her seventh month of pregnancy, she weighed 38 kg and her haemoglobin level was at 8 kg which is far from […]
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In the Adivasi-dominated village of Ratatalai, in the Bagli block of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh, forty women took on the arduous task of activating the Public Distribution System (PDS). The task of providing food security in areas characterised by backwardness and chronic poverty poses many hurdles. More often than not, the public systems in […]