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7th April 2010

Action Taken Report on Jamua Social Audit, People win wage struggle in Mansahi, Bribe returned by Post Master after protest by workers in Raniganj
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23rd December 2009

Social Audit in Jamua, Araria completed successfully despite threats and violence by Mukhiya of Jamua
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Update after Mansahi(katihar) Padyatra 2009

Similar to our experience in Araria, workers had to gherao the block office to get their applications recieved. That was only the first of the numerous struggles to follow.
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Kam Mango Padyatra Katihar October 2009

This padyatra was undertaken to increase the organisation’s outreach and base in the nearby Katihar Distric. People of Mansahi invited JJA to start work in the area
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31st January 2009

Work started in Jamua GP, but disrupted by Mukhiya and Mukhiya pati, with their supporters.
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7th February 2009:

So far works proportionate to demand have not been opened in any of the 6 panchayats from where demand has been made and no communication on the unemployment allowance has been received from the administration.
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Email : info@jjabihar.org

Welcome to Jan Jagaran Abhiyaan

Jan Jagaran Abhiyaan (JJA) is a people’s organization working in rural Bihar.Today its an uphill task for people to even submit a job application under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Many other entitlements provided by the government do not reach people and causes millions to live under abject poverty. JJA mobilizes rural poor to demand better services from the government and to get the existing entitlements as laid down by the government. JJA aims to bring about a larger change in the lives of rural poor by means of “sangharsh” (struggle) and “nirman” (constructive activities).

The JJA, Araria grew from an intensive survey on NREGA initiated by the G.B. Pant Institute (Allahabad University) and Prof. Jean Dreze, in May, 2008. The survey focused on assessing the ground realities of NREGA in two districts of Bihar, namely Kaimur and Araria. The survey also had related campaign activities like awareness generation, checking if transparency safeguards were in place to check corruption and documentation of irregularities and cases of corruption.

The survey showed that lack of awareness about NREGA entitlements amongst workers is very high and so the survey was a good way to generate awareness to ensure that people know that 100 days of work is a right. As part of checking the transparency safeguards we also did some muster roll verification exercises (kind of social audit) and found a leakage of about 50 % in wages that have been paid.

These activities generated a lot of interest amongst local groups and people who are genuinely interested in issues of social change. This interest became the basis of the formation of the 'Jan Jagaran Abhiyan', Araria, which currently focuses on NREGA, Right to Information (RTI) and issues of justice.

The Abhiyan does not take institutional funds, it runs on individual donations from friends, supporters and well wishers, if you feel you would like to support our activities, you could send us your contribution in Indian Rupees. The Abhiyan is not a registered organization but we maintain our accounts and issue receipts for the donations we receive.