Mianikjhola Village Gets Full Labour Payment And A Brand New Anganwadi Centre!! The MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) is supposed to provide at least 100 days of assured employment to the unskilled in rural areas, facilitating a measure of economic security, and overall village development by enabling people to plan for their(…)
case studies
Dist: Bolangir, Block: Belpada
Parajasila’s Villagers Solved Incomplete School Building Issues
Kantabaji, 14/4: A one-day workshop on MGNREGA was organised in Kharbahali village, Bharuapali GP of Belpada block under Bolangir district, by the EU-Agragamee Information (“Addressing Nutritional & Income Insecurity of Underpriviliged Communities by Improving Access to Relevant Government Schemes”) Project’s Bolangir district partner organisation Bolangir Bikas Parishad in Kantabanji of Belpada block. The basic objective(…)
Dist: Rayagada, Block: Kashipur, GP: Chandragiri, Village: Durkhal
During the needs assessment drive in the districts of Tonk and Sawai Modhapur, the denial of the previously instituted 75% bus travel concession to access ART without any significant reasons was brought to the attention of the Project Svavritti team by PLHIV. The community members also expressed their unwillingness to utilize the bus concession due(…)
Mr. Bikas (name changed), a PLHIV from Gajapati district, Odisha was highly distressed when he got to know the HIV status of his wife and elder daughter nine months after his diagnosis in 2010. Due to prolonged depression he was irregular in his work and faced financial problems in the family. In 2010, through the(…)
Santosh Goudo, a 27 year old transwoman who works as a daily wage labourer and lives with her parents in Parlakhemundi of Gajapati, Odisha. Santhosh is a registered member of a Targeted Intervention project implemented by National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) in Parlakhemundi. While transitioning, Santhosh was discriminated against by her family and society at(…)
Mr Jhon Deep is a 45 year old man who is HIV positive; he lives with his wife and three daughters in a small dilapidated hut in Jagannathpur, a village in Medinipur Panchayat of Bhawanipatna block in Kalahandi, Odisha. In 2013, while Mr. Deep was working as a daily wage labourer in Surat, Gujarat he(…)
It requires a lot of perseverance and patience to access government schemes and services by a individuals from general population in India due to lack of knowledge about schemes, lengthy application processes, corruption and delay in decision making by the government departments. In August 2015, through project Svavritti, seven People Living with HIV (PLHIV) received(…)
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