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CASE STUDIES

of income they lived accursed Figure 1: Photograph showing the location and the Access Road - Asha Nagar
life in precarious conditions.
Hence, under Pradhan Mantri
Awas Yojana (PMAY), they
were selected as beneficiaries
and through convergence
with multiple state & central
government schemes the process
of constructing Pucca houses was
initiated. They were selected not
only to provide an all-weather
house but also to bring them to
mainstream, raise their socio-
economic standard, inculcate
faith in government policies &
provide livelihood.
The primary focus of the project
is to support leprosy affected
communities in accessing
government schemes to which
they are entitled to. Under the
initiative, secured land rights
have been granted to build
homes, which have acted as
a foundation and have been
a catalyst in rebuilding their
lives. Enhanced access to state-
sponsored nutrition programmes
has improved food security and
health among the community.
More children attend school Lack of land rights has detrimental community participation. This
and have access to scholarships, impacts on the residents, such information played vital role and
while women hold leadership as no security of tenure, unable was utilized to assign land rights
positions within the community to enroll children in school, to eligible residents – followed
and have been supported to excluded from basic services, by up-gradation of the physical
become self-sufficient. Through not allowed to open a bank infrastructure like roads, drains,
its community-led approach, the account or access government street-lights, community park,
project empowers the ostracized benefits. In this project of “Asha sanitation and clean water
community to resist tyrannical Chadhi Parwan” community supply.
practices and access their basic mapping and survey of slum
human rights, restoring their was performed by bringing AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
dignity and transforming their together the use of drone and “Asha Chadhi Parwan” - “Dream
lives for generations to come.
mobile based technology and Comes True” was the motto

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