Jharkhand

Open Defecation Free Villages: Creating and sustaining Nirmal Grams through community participation in Jharkhand

CategoriesGoal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Knowledge & Research, PrintTags, , , ,

The Government of Jharkhand has successfully established a workable strategy for creating and sustaining Nirmal Grams (clean villages) through a people-centric, participatory and demand-driven approach. This initiative aims to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages through the construction of a functional toilet in every household. Having been successfully piloted in Gadri village, the initiative is Read More …

Panchayat Banks: Providing banking facilities at the village level in Jharkhand

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The Panchayat Banks model of Jharkhand has provided rural citizens with improved access to a range of government schemes as well as financial services, allowing citizens to carry out basic financial transactions and also access benefits of government schemes such as pensions and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) payments. The initiative has Read More …

Promoting Access to Justice through info-kiosks

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OneWorld Foundation India, in partnership with UNDP and Ministry of Law and Justice, uses 50 icon- and voice-enabled info-kiosks to provide information on welfare laws, policies and schemes to poor communities in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh under the Access to Justice initiative.