Category: Activities on Mobile Vaani
May 23rd, 2020 Dear friends of Gram Vaani, We hope this note finds you, your teams and families safe and well. This week marks about two months since we initiated…
by Vani Viswanathan India reached a new low in the Global Hunger Index rankings since it began in 2000. The country ranked 102 (out of 117 qualifying countries), lagging behind…
by Vani Viswanathan Midday meal cook from Maharashtra Babita Tade winning one crore on Kaun Banega Crorepati may have been the best news to do with the midday meal programme…
As the nation churned in the course of an election that lasted nearly 40 days, bringing forth debates and discussions from all corners of the country, watching from the sidelines were millions of migrants – people who’d left their villages and towns to move to other states in search of work, and in the process, unable to participate in exercising their right to vote. Why are migrants unable to vote – in their destination city or in their hometown? What assistance do they expect in this regard? Here’s an assortment of opinions from Mobile Vaani users who reported on Shram ka Samman on how their migrant status affected their participation in choosing the next government.
Not working on farms or going into daily wage labour leaves rural Indians with few options to earn a livelihood. In this article based on our ongoing campaign Shram ka Samman, we trace what options people have outside of agriculture or daily wage labour in rural areas, and why these are insufficient in keeping them from migrating.
How does the NREGA affect migration? This article is based on opinions shared by our users as part of our campaign Shram ka Samman, focusing on unemployment and the state of labour in rural India.
by Vani Viswanathan Vijay Sharma from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, grows potatoes and some wheat, but couldn’t manage any more because of lack of irrigation facilities. ‘Sevaks and Krishi Mitras all live…
by Vani Viswanathan ‘I dreamt of putting my children through school and taking care of my aged parents with the money I make,’ says Rakhi from Jamui, Bihar, who migrated with…
Government grievance redressal services are complicated and centralised, putting them out of reach and relevance of citizens in rural areas. They were built to keep ‘middlemen’ out, but end up…
While on-ground volunteers can assist with grievance redressal, community-based hyperlocal media can play a powerful role in putting pressure on authorities to act on grievances. Over the years, local inefficiencies on a range…
