NFI Fellowships 2021
2021-Round 2 English
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Shubham Tigga
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
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Shubham Tigga is a Chhattisgarh-based independent journalist reporting on the issues related to Adivasi communities in the state. As part of the fellowship, he published a detailed story on the impact of Covid-19 on the education of tribal children in North Bastar district of the state. In the process of reporting, Shubham was helped and mentored by Akash Poyam and Mahtab Alam.
PUBLISHED IN The Wire ON 27 August 2021
Education Was Always a Struggle in Bastar. The Pandemic Has Made it Near Impossible.
Education Was Always a Struggle in Bastar. The Pandemic Has Made it Near Impossible.
Successive governments have done nothing to promote education and build school infrastructure in tribal areas, and now teachers are struggling to make students attend mohalla classes. As the schools are far away from their homes, some students take admission in government ashram schools. But because of the pandemic, their studies have also been interrupted.
