Publications

India Spend publishes Seva Setu’s opinion piece on malnutrition in Bihar

Seva Setu published our data-driven analysis on malnutrition in Bihar. We argue why the current infrastructure will not help achieve Bihar’s ambitious goal of reducing malnutrition rates to less than 30% by 2018.

Link to article

Doordarshan News’ Meri Desh Ki Dharti series covers Seva Setu

Doordarshan News’ Meri Desh Ki Dharti had a half-hour feature on Seva Setu’s work. The feature explains the key programs we run.

Watch now – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_hJYaNoz0

Our Each one, Reach one program is covered by The Logical Indian

Our Each one, Reach one program, which connects rural mothers with urban mothers, was featured The Logical Indian’s ‘My Social Responsibility’ segment. The article highlights how Seva Setu’s program has helped rural mothers enjoy a healthy motherhood. It also sheds light on some of the operational challenges encountered in the program!

Here is a link to the article.

Report on the status of Health Sub Centers

At Seva Setu, our efforts are two-fold in ensuring that existing government infrastructure reaches the last mile: one line of our effort involves hand-holding and providing innovative interventions to make existing infrastructure work better and the other involves strong advocacy to urge relevant stakeholders in improving the existing infrastructure.

In an attempt at our advocacy – we were curious to know how the state’s Health Sub Centers were functioning. The HSC, as envisioned by the National Rural Health Mission, is meant to be the first point of contact by the community for basic healthcare. An Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife (ANM) is supposed to man these clinics and treat and dispense non-critical cases, referring the critical ones to the Primary Health Centers. These centers are normally located in every panchayat as against the PHCs, which usually cover one block. By the design of it, it rightly should reduce the load of footfalls happening at a PHC.

When we went around to see what’s going on, we found a different story. Of the 15 HSCs we visited in a span of 2 weeks recently, we noticed 13 of them to be closed. On speaking to the locals there, we realized this has been the case for a long while now.

Download the detailed report: HSC-Audit-Report_22.06.2016.pdf

Report on the Social audit day of Anganwadi centers

A social audit of the Anganwadi centers in every village is supposed to be an audit by the members of the society in seeing whether the Anganwadi is able to serve the people right. This is an event which takes place every six months and is widely publicized by the organizing ministry, the Integrated Child Development Services.

Designated office-bearers along with the citizens get an opportunity to walk up to the Anganwadis and audit the performance of the center over the last couple of months. A very powerful tool by the letter of the law. However, when at Seva Setu audited the audit today, we found a different story. No audit really happens! The letter of the law is all the remains. Most Anganwadi centers were busy doing paper work related to Aadhar and ration cards. Further, we found out some centers which were not functioning at all!

Read the detailed report: Social Audit Report_21.06.2016

Seva Setu overview

Seva Setu is a humble social initiative established to espouse the cause of every individual deprived of his/her fundamental rights.  At Seva Setu, we are determined to change this state of despair, deprivation and exploitation and bring about a tectonic change in the way we address and solve issues of the people.

Read our document to get an overview of our approach and work: Overview

Seva Setu constitution

We have defined a constitution which guides our thoughts and actions.

Download the document from here: Overview