Despite 26 regional AIIMS, the flagship centre in Delhi ends up taking the burden of millions owing to its “miracle” reputation and the regional centres lacking quality facilities and expert doctors
Every monsoon, the Yamuna spills over its banks and this year nearly ten thousand families have again been forced to leave their homes. Entire clusters along the floodplains now lie under water, with people crowded into relief camps set up beneath metro stations and along roadside patches. Inside, basic rations, drinking water and temporary bedding are distributed, but daily life has come to a halt. Children are cut off from schools, workers from wages, and families from their routines. What remains is a cycle of loss and rebuilding, repeated each year as the river rises as the city tries to hold its breath.
Conservationist Simon Oraon has given his whole life to providing solutions to avert water crisis.
Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee of Ranchi has been providing medical attention to the poorest. His fee ranges from a smile to rupees five.
After losing her daughter to a car accident, 64-year-old Dorris Francis spends four hours, the busiest ones, every day of the last 14 years on the road, a cap on her head, whistle and baton in her hands, helping ease traffic in Ghaziabad.
The slums of Vikaspuri, on the far western outskirts of the National capital, are witnessing a silent revolution -- girls are making the football talk
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