-TheWire.in Promises made are hardly kept and the responsibility to maintain basic public amenities such as toilets, sewage and clean water facilities falls on the slum-dwellers themselves. This article comes from a study undertaken as part of a Centre for New Economic Studies (CNES) Visual Storyboard Initiative. The three-part photo essay on this storyboard can be accessed through the following links (Part I; Part II; Part III) and all video essays uploaded...
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Why the CAG has raised questions about the Yogi Adityanath government’s spending on Kumbh 2019 -Ashish Misra
-IndiaToday.in Irregularities worth hundreds of crores have been flagged in a CAG report on preparation works for Kumbh 2019, the most expensive public event in Uttar Pradesh’s history Lucknow: On August 19, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) filed a report on the Yogi Adityanath government’s arrangements for the Kumbh Mela 2019 in Prayagraj. The report was presented by Principal Accountant General B.K. Mohanty. It highlighted irregularities worth hundreds of crores of...
More »Here's What Needs to Change for Sanitation Workers in India -Nirat Bhatnagar, Anahitaa Bakshi & Keshav Kanoria
-TheWire.in Improved data collection and reporting, appropriate protective gear and better government policies can all help address the problems of sanitation workers. Over the last seven or eight years in India, sanitation has been a key focus of government programmes. Several thousand crores have been spent on the issue and there has been remarkable progress in terms of toilets constructed. The sanitation problem has also received ample attention in the development sector,...
More »The Vulnerabilities of the Homeless Are Due to the State's Failure To Provide Any Security -Brijesh Arya and Maggie Paul
-TheWire.in The perception has grown over the years that those without any shelter are somehow getting a free ride. Headlines across several newspapers on the afternoon of July 3 declared “homeless and beggars should work; everything cannot be provided to them by the state”. This statement was attributed to the Bombay high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S. Kulkarni during its hearing of a public interest litigation...
More »Flood victims take shelter on roads, embankments after June floods in Bihar -Mohd Imran Khan
-Down to Earth The victims are living without shelter and are severely constrained for food and other necessities Hundreds of families displaced by floods that took place in June in northern Bihar, have been forced to take shelter on nearby roads. Large tracts of land are still submerged by flood waters and there is little chance of water receding in the coming days. The India Meteorological Department has forecast more rains this month due...
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