Chhattisgarh

Nearly every district headquarters in Chhattisgarh has a “mini-stadium”, used for cricket and football. In May last year, the administration of Bijapur, among the districts worst affected by left-wing violence in the country, decided to build in one such mini-stadium the Bijapur Sports Academy

An NGO in Chhattisgarh is addressing the urgent deficit in nutrition by providing three meals a day to children under three along with daycare. Since 2009, the NGO Jan Swasthya Sahyog has been running creches or phulwaris where children under the age of three can stay for eight hours. They eat three

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh dedicated to the people state's first Dev Sanskriti University in village Sankra near Kumhari. This University has been developed by Gayatri Pariwar. In this University 53 subjects will be taught including Yoga, Dharam Sashtra, IT. छत्तीसगढ़ के मुख्यमंत्री

For years, Saja Pahad village in Chhattisgarh’s Koriya district faced water shortage. Villagers found it difficult to quench the thirst of their cattle, but they did not know what to do. And the government, too, did nothing. Then one day 15-year-old Shyam Lal decided to take his spade and dig a pond

A former Salwa Judum vigilante who builds roads in shadow of Maoists in Chhattisgarh. Pramod Rathore’s reputation as a member of the now-disbanded Salwa Judum vigilante group that fought Maoists with state patronage is, however, an advantage. He is perhaps a contractor like no other in the country

This is the story of 41-year-old Bheshaj Ramteke, a government doctor who is the sole medical link for nearly 200 villages in the state’s Kanker district, braving dense forests and left-wing extremists on foot, bicycle and motorcycle. Most other “outsiders” don’t dare venture into these villages

In Bastar’s Maoist land, healthcare, education and social indicators are often low, but the Bijapur hospital is an anomaly, a symbol. There is a new blood bank, new operation theatres, and a 50-bed maternal and child healthcare section, strung up with the latest technology. In this report by

One does not come across such stories very often. Abhishek Pallav, a doctor-turned IPS officer in Bastar of Chhattisgarh, treats wounded Maoist after a seven-hour long encounter. Somaru, a Maoist commander, owes his life to IPS officer Pallav who had engaged him in a fierce gun battle last week in

Usually when one hears of some news from Dantewada, in Chhattisgarh, it is for all the wrong reasons - primarily of the naxal disturbance. However, in the Dantewada district Katekalyan has quietly been building another identity — as the nursery of organic farming mushrooming across the district

In the eastern states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal we hear so much of the menace that elephants create in villages. Many a times there are casualties too. Sometimes, if accurate information on the movement of elephants is known, preventive action comes to great help. One such

When security forces visit a village in search of maoists in Bastar villages, the locals dread not knowing what's going to happen. Now, the presence of the first CRPF woman officer has changed all this. Usha Kiran,27, is CRPF’s first woman officer to be posted in the Maoist-infested part of the

It is heartening to note that the first ever tribal paramilitary battalion is getting ready. 33% of its recruits will be women. Recruitment are likely to be completed by mid-January. News in Indian Express say that these recruits will join in April 2017 for basic training. CRPF, for the first time