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A society progresses when the administration and the community move forward together.
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Video Volunteers is an organization that believes in change and governance.
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We, not only highlight the issues but we also work towards resolving them.
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Video Volunteers has been working with communities for the past 18 years on issues that often go unnoticed.
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Such issues become a big problem for the marginalised communities.
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Our community correspondents work like a citizen journalist in their own community
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and bring forth the issues in the form of video reports.
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And VV does this work together with the communities
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as well as government officials who help us in solving the most difficult issues.
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Let us introduce you to some of the officers who helped us in solving the issues.
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They did not have ration card.
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Due to which the family of 9 was in trouble.
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I met the Block Development Officer Kapil Kumar and shared my video report with him.
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I also followed up with him regarding the issue thrice.
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Called him twice to remind him to take action.
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I learnt from Video Volunteers correspondent
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that 2 families in Gomia were getting ration because they didn't have ration card.
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Their application was filed online
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and it was approved immediately and now the families have the ration cards.
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I am in Patro village of Kupawar, Kashmir adjoining LOC.
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There is an issue with number of teachers in schools.
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I raised this issue with Director of Education during his visit.
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We are looking into the matter and are aware of the issue.
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Orders have been issued to extend the deployments till 31st March
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and deployment after that have been cancelled.
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We are accessing the situation and are considering schools with student teacher ratio imbalance.
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We will be allotting teachers to schools with less teachers.
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We will be contacting Chief Officer soon and after that teachers will be appointed soon.
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In Juganikalar village of Chhattisgarh, 15km road was not constructed since 2 years.
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Around 6000 people from four panchayats use this road from commuting
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I made a video report on this issue
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and shared the report with officers in Gramin Sadak Yojana office.
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We have got the approval and we will fix the road and bridge by 31st March
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We are very thankful that this road was constructed.
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We used to face a lot of trouble during monsoon while travelling on this road.
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But now even big vehicles can travel on this road.
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16 Mushar (lower caste) families were not receiving ration due to discrimination against them
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Anil Kumar from Video Volunteers informed about the discrimination in Chandrapura.
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That since 2 months nutritious ration was denied to 16 families.
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I saw Anil's video report
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from Chandrapura's Musahir community hamlet.
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I was very shocked and heartbroken to see such conditions of people there
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Personally I went to meet the community people.
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I asked the community to share their concerns with me.
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They told me they don't get the ration regularly.
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I got in touch with the Anganwadi worker and distributed ration to the community.
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I am thankful to Anil for raising such issues and incidents so we could take timely action.
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For two years this village was deprived of water because of incompletion of the water tower.
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Two years ago they had installed a water tower, but it was of no use.
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We were forced to use dirty well water.
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You brought the issue to our notice about the water tower not working in Bhuiyan tola.
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I also saw the video report made by you.
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We have fixed the water tower and now it's working after your intervention.
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We are sometimes unaware of the ground reality.
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When people like you notify us about these ground level issues,
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we and the community thank you for raising such issues and informing us on time.
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Ma'am I had applied to be a janitor for community toilets,
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but the previous village head removed my name and instead gave the job to his daughter-in-law.
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Earlier, the woman had applied for the job multiple times to the Block Development Office.
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You guided her through the process of filling forms and reach different offices to get the job.
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You helped her.
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After that the matter came to me and we held a meeting to discuss the matter.
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We all unanimously agreed and decided to appoint her for the job.
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She has been working since December now.
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I am grateful to all the village officials
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who helped me and the affected woman to get a job and live life with dignity.
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Toilets were constructed under Lohiyan Swachch Abhiyan
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but the said amount of Rs 12000 was not compensated by the government.
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They kept going to the block office for the issue but all was in vain.
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It's been a year since my ward became open defecation free
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but we have not received any compensation as we should have.
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You notified us about the problem and it was resolved with in 15 days.
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How did you come to know about the issue?
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You has filed a complaint and when we investigated, it was true that compensation had not been given to these people.
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Their names were not entered in the database that's why their compensation got delayed.
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We immediately added them to the list and gave them their compensation.
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It's been 70 years since Independence and these villagers still don't have electricity.
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Even today kids here study using a lantern.
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Here 500 people were living without electricity for years.
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We looked at all unelectrified colonies or villages,
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and we provided electricity to all houses.
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We have resolved this issue.
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In Shopian the shopkeepers have encroached the footpaths and roads.
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We have been notifying the administration for last 2 years regularly.
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I have made a video report on this issue a year back.
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We know about this issue and it is part of our deliverables.
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This issue should be resolved on priority. As you can see traffic is a big problem here.
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People have no space to walk.
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Sir this is part of our deliverable and we will be resolving this issue soon.
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I would like to assure you about the problem raised by you. It has been raised earlier too.
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We will be deciding a strategy to fix the problem and also ensure to enforce it continuously.
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During the Covid wave in India, ASHA workers conducted a huge protest.
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Their demand was to get fair wages for the work they had done during covid emergency.
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We have received the money that we demanded for our work.
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My video journalism, community support were very crucial for ASHA protest being a success.
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I made a video report on ASHA agitation and shared it with ASHA union, network
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and also mailed the Maharashtra government.
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And raised problems faced by ASHA and demanded compensation for them.
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When ASHA's met the government officials, they mentioned that they have received video report and complaint, this was my videos impact.
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They realised that how ASHA's were going out of their way during covid and it was acknowledged by the government officials.
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I believe in future this kind of reporting and journalism will be very helpful,
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in raising problems faced by communities.
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Maya has shown us how citizen journalism plays crucial roles in bringing impacts.
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Since 2 years permission was given to build toilets under the Swachha Bharat scheme.
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But due to lack of attention from the Panchayat, the construction got delayed.
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The community raised the issue in every village meeting.
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This led to construction of the toilets.
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Saroj Paraste informed us about the issue and we took cognizance of it.
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I saw the video report made by her.
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Toilets were not built that time, but now we have resolved the issue.
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In Jamod, Usra and Sungaon villages of Maharashtra were getting water in the farms only at night.
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Farmers have sowed onions and it was getting difficult to plough, water the land at night.
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I made a video report on this issue in January and it became viral.
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Government officials also saw the video and immediately took action.
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They changed the water and electricity timings to day and now farmers can do the work in daylight.
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Vinod Wankhede informed me about the issue faced by the farmers.
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I informed by supervisors about this and requested to resolve the issue.
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Farmers were facing issues due to loadshedding.
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We sent an application to our seniors and put in a request to change the timings.
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We sincerely thank all those government officials
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who have given their time in our effort to change and bring impacts in the lives of communities.
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We hope that in future together with the help of officials
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bring a change in the lives of the marginalised communities.
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Thank You.
