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Child Politicians Bring Change to Rural India by Sonia Faleiro

Pooja Gujjar is the consummate politician. She’s quick-witted and outspoken, and, as her every-ready, dimpled smile suggests, always up for a challenge. She has, admittedly, a girlish streak. The first time she stood for election she chose as her symbol a flower. And although she lost, to a boy, she’s proud that all the girls voted for her. Pooja is the deputy “Sarpanch” – Hindi for leader – of her school’s...

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Nandini Sundar: The path to a conflict-free state

-CNN-IBN   Contrary to the dominant narrative that areas where Naxalites are strong are where the state has been absent, for the last 100-150 years, there has been a gradual expansion of the state in tribal areas regardless of whether the people want it or not. However, the state has been expanding in the wrong areas. You have an extension of the forest department, the bureaucracy, the patwari and the forest guard....

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Panchs,Sarpanchs threaten RTI activists

-Greater Kashmir   RTI activists from north Kashmir's Singhpora village on Thursday alleged Sarpanchs and Panchs were harassing them for seeking information about the public works carried out in the area.  “There have been a very few works carried out by the concerned Panchs and Sarpanchs in the area. In Harinara village very few works were carried out. They either divert works or cancel them as per their own wishes,” a delegation...

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Aruna Roy, RTI activist interviewed by Pallavi Polanki

The lone Indian activist on the 2011 TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, Aruna Roy has been more successful than most,  when it comes to getting the government’s attention. The Chennai-born former bureaucrat who was an instrumental force behind the revolutionary Right to Information Act has also been credited by the government for “incorporating strong citizen entitlements” in the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). A constant...

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Dalit woman Sarpanch emerges as poster girl for gender issues

-The Hindu   Has addressed issues of sex selection, infant-maternal mortality, child health A Dalit woman Sarpanch elected to an unreserved seat in Bikaner district of Rajasthan has successfully brought gender issues to the mainstream development discourse with the help of a Jaipur-based advocacy group. She has addressed the crucial subjects of sex selection, infant and maternal mortality and reproductive and child health by focusing on gender fostering. Tara Devi, elected as Sarpanch of...

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