HUNGER NEWS CATEGORIES :
India undergoing silent rights revolution as laws guarantee social services
by Rama Lakshmi
DALKI SAHI, India — Three years ago, a group of parents in a remote tribal hamlet handed local officials a petition demanding a new school. Their children had to walk nearly two miles through farmland, forest and creeks to reach the closest government school although, they argued, India’s new Right to Education law entitled them to something closer.