PACS Programme State Report Bihar

PACS Programme State Report Bihar

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Focus Theme: Governance

The PACS Programme seeks to build the awareness and capacity of the poor to express their voice through Panchayati Raj institutions, and exercise democratic control over local representatives and public services.

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• Related backgrounders

•	Implementation of National Rural Health Mission: A review
•	Role of CSOs in governance
•	Action Research Villages: A Right to Information campaign
•	Assessment of welfare schemes in PACS Programme areas
•	Two years of RTI: A review
•	Status of Right to Information Act in Madhya Pradesh
•	Vidarbha’s development backlog
•	Using the Right to Information: FAQs
•	Panchayati raj in Bihar and Jharkhand: A comparative analysis
•	Increasing media’s role in development: Learnings from MP
•	Towards more participatory governance
•	RTI Act: Making government accountable
•	Landmark SC orders on right to food
•	Right to food: A fundamental human right
•	Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: The burden of inertia
•	Panchayati raj in tribal areas: The case of Chhattisgarh
•	Panchayati Raj in PACS Programme states
•	Budgetary allocations for the social sector

• Related stories

Gaon sabha campaign across backward regions of Maharashtra
The PACS Programme facilitated 1,053 village meetings in 2007-08, across Marathwada and Vidarbha, to articulate development-related demands of poor and marginalised people.

Chingari sanghatan trains spotlight on Madhoupur
A village-level people’s advocacy forum in Madhoupur, Banda, has put sustained pressure on the administration and captured the attention of the media and key political leaders.

CSOs decry powerlessness of gram sabhas
There is a fundamental clash of interest between the State and local self-governance bodies, said speakers at the PACS Programme’s national poverty conference.

Advocacy initiatives in Maharashtra
Several advocacy initiatives have been launched recently in Maharashtra on the issues of trafficking of women and children, child rights, drought, dalit land rights, and joint forest management policies.

Development for the people, by the people
Community-based groups in Dakor block, Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh, prioritise and initiate action on pressing development issues in their villages.

PACS Programme joins hands with Bharat Nirman in Chhattisgarh
A five-day programme in Kanker, Chhattisgarh, to provide information about various government schemes witnessed lively interaction between officials and participants on the right to information.

Ramgarh’s women fight for water
The women of Ramgarh village in drought-affected Bundelkhand have battled administrative apathy and the non-cooperative attitude of elected representatives to find a solution to the severe water problem they face.

Massive gathering of women panchayat members in Bihar
In a unique show of solidarity, more than 1,000 women panchayat representatives from 22 districts in Bihar participated in a convention held in April 2007 by the PACS Programme.

Elderly get a voice in MP’s panchayats
A PACS Programme partner has successfully advocated for a government order to include issues concerning the elderly in the agendas of gram sabha or panchayat meetings, in Madhya Pradesh.

Women fight for development in Hamirpur
Women belonging to a pressure group in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, lobbied the district administration until it provided teachers for local schools and responded to other important demands.

‘Soochna praharis’ spread RTI awareness in rural Bihar
In Bihar’s Madhubani district, volunteers known as ‘soochna praharis’ are helping rural people use their right to information

Using RTI in urban slums
Women in Ranchi’s slums are using the Right To Information (RTI) to ensure better civic amenities and Public Distribution System (PDS) entitlements.

Taking RTI to villages
The PACS Programme has launched an important action research project in UP to motivate people in villages to use the Right to Information (RTI) Act

PACS Programme works closely with Bihar government
The PACS Programme’s involvement in an induction programme for District Development Commissioners (DDCs) in Bihar is an example of growing cooperation between the programme and the state’s department for rural development.

The challenges of fair planning
A symposium on ‘11th Five-Year Plan: Social and Economic Challenges’ was organised in Nagpur on December 9, 2006, with support from the PACS Programme.

CSO ensures issue of proper job cards in Bihar
In Pim panchayat in Darbhanga, Bihar, job cards under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme were issued without photographs or registration numbers. A PACS Programme CSO ensured that this malpractice stopped.

New voices of assertion in Bihar’s panchayats
Several hundred candidates supported by community organisations have been elected to panchayats across the PACS Programme area in Bihar. This is a major development in a state where all elections are marked by use of money power, caste considerations and violence

A village cleans up its act
From being the dirtiest village in Bahraich, UP, Shahpur Jot Yusuf has won an award for being the cleanest village in the district

A valiant struggle against corruption
A PACS-Programme-supported CSO in Mahoba, UP, successfully motivated a community of weavers to fight against a powerful politician who deprived them of their livelihood.

Chingari Sanghatans at crossroads
Village level community organisations called Chingari Sanghatans have successfully fought against many instances of denial of rights and justice in Bundelkhand. The challenge now is to develop the strength and vision for a long-term struggle.

An empowered gram sabha shows the way in Rajnandgaon
An active and aware gram sabha in the remote Chauki block of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh has stopped exploitative quarrying in the area and received work under the Food for Work programme.

Monitoring PDS through community organisations
Community based organisations initiated by PACS Programme partners in MP and UP are playing an effective role in ensuring that the public distribution system (PDS) delivers

CSOs make a difference in UP panchayat elections
A large Pre-Election Voter Awareness Campaign (PEVAC) had a positive impact on the UP panchayat elections held in August 2005. Hundreds of candidates selected by community organisations got the people’s mandate; several women and dalits got elected from unreserved seats.

Combating inertia in Uttar Pradesh
Pressure groups called Chingari Sangathans are holding local administrations in Bundelkhand accountable for incomplete development work.

Fear is the key in Bundelkhand
In Bundelkhand, dalits and landless labourers have never dared to confront gun-toting upper-caste strongmen. But CSOs are helping them learn the language of rights.

Panchayati raj helps a tribal village save its land
Tribal villagers in Surguja district, Chhattisgarh, unwittingly signed away their land. A PACS Programme partner helped the villagers get a just settlement from the forest department.

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