JAMIA MLLIA ISLAMIA

DACEE

“DAILY REPORT”

Submitted to: Dr. (Prof) Nasra

Shabnam Submitted by:

Ramsha Nusrat

M.Sc Development Extension , I

Semester Roll number:

M3522083
DAY 1

It was the first day of our field work. Today's

assignments were:

1. To develop the route map from Jasola metro

station to community in Jasola village

2. Entering the community and acquainting

ourselves with community

people.

We were supposed to take keen observations for

two days on both sides of roads while moving in

Jasola village either on foot, cycle or e rickshaw

while carefully noting down all the landmarks and

also meeting local/community/political leaders in

the community. Our supervisor Nasra ma'am

introduced us to the community. From there we

started exploring roads and lanes of the community

while mapping as well. We noted some landmarks

like Mandir, the community centre and some

government and private schools. We noticed the

poor hygienic condition of all lanes and roads. Most

of the jhuggis were poorly built with almost no

ventilation.

Sanitation facilities in almost every community

cluster was very very poor. Despite these poor living

conditions among these people,people in every

cluster live in unity. We enquired about their

Sarpanch and we went to his home. His name was

Jaggan; we were told his wife that he is not home

and hopefully we can meet him on Sunday. She

didn't want to give his number or take our number to

inform us about his arrival. We are hopeful to meet

him on Sunday.

We introduced ourselves to some children and asked

about the neighbour relation in every cluster, we got

to know everyone here lives with love and they are

great friends with each other and do almost

everything together which we found very

heartwarming. Even in these difficult situations these

people have found a way to support Each Other

emotionally and are thankful to God that they have

something to eat even if it's not enough. We noticed

almost every member of the community was

violating covid-19 protocols.

When asked almost everyone said Corona is just a

hoax and it cannot affect them. They seems not to

care. It seemed like all these people had same

opinion about everything. We also met cluster

leaders, all of them were very cheerful and really

angry with their elected leaders. They agreed to talk

to us and promised to introduce us to other cluster

members. When asked if they are satisfied with

their life surprisingly all of the 3 cluster leaders

replied cheerfully 'YES' indicating they are very

much happy and would not like to change anything

about their lives except the fact that they don't want
their children to leave the same life as they lived.

CONCLUSION: people of community and

community clusters had same thinking. Cluster

leaders are hopeful of their condition to change in

future and a working on Children's education

irrespective of their gender.

Surprisingly all of the people which we

communicated with had almost the same thinking

about Corona, Healthcare facilities, elected leaders

and local leaders. All these people have made peace

with their living and social economic conditions and

most of them dream to change these in future.

At the end of the day, I learnt even in harsh living

conditions where it seems like this place cannot be

the path of India's capital or promised elected

leaders may don't even know that they exist;these

people have hope in education.

These people are standing not just for themselves but

with each other as well.

 DAY 2

Today was the second day of our field work. Today's

assignment was to:

1. Meeting local leaders as well as Locol

people too and observing their living

conditions including their kitchens, toilets

and bathrooms.

2. Observing their cultural and political views.

3. Develop an understanding about the main

problem of residing people in small and

large clusters.

Yesterday after standing 8 hours in the community,

we developed an understanding already by

observing how these people live. Today, we got to

know more about talking in detail about how they

spend their day, what problems faced by living in

semi pakka or kutcha jhuggis, about the head of the

family and children in the house. We found most

women were home while their husbands are fathers

and old enough sons are not home. Some of those

women worked as a maid for stitched clothes but

most of them were unemployed.

Surprisingly unemployment was not an issue for

most of the women but all of them complain about

low-income that their husband or son make and how

difficult it is for them to 'get by' in that amount. In

Jagganwadi Colony, there are about hundred jhuggis

with different rents. Rent depends upon the

condition of roof and walls of Jhuggi. Rent was

distributed in the range between rupees 2000 to

5000. Their Jhuggi had only one room; they made

their own Kitchen in front of the houses and per 10

to 12 jhuggies, 2 toilets and one bathroom were

allotted. Needless to mention toilet and bathroom

stained and also were in very poor conditions.

People who lived there were mainly Muslims and

Hindus. They live in peace,harmony and love and

shares common problems. On asking about relations

with one another all of them agreed having great

relations with one another. When I asked them about

Corona it seem like all of these people had one

theory in mind that Corona is nothing; they all were

unaware of how it spreads and how it cure and

about its prevention. Surprisingly 2-3 people told

me that Corona happens because of inadequate

sunlight and people living in buildings are the ones

who get
infected. They all had the same thinking that we are

already living in poor hygienic conditions. We are

immune to almost everything so we can't have

coronavirus aur if coronavirus came here it did

nothing to any one of them. Most of the women in

Jaganwadi Colony complained about drug abuse by

their husband and sons. Almost everyone in these

houses was indulged in substance abuse like Beedi,

tobacco, choona and alcohol. I noticed many of the

children had keen interest in playing online games

and didn't even interact with us.

With their we move on to another community

cluster. This cluster was mainly occupied by

Hindu members. Hygienic and sanitation conditions

were very poor. All of them had one room on rent

which cost them 3000. There were almost 175

rooms in this cluster and people here were very

angry at the government and complained about

unemployment. Almost every woman worked as a

maid or did tailoring and men are mainly daily wage

labour.

These people are more concentrated on giving their

children education. With these things noted down,

we moved on to another cluster; while interacting

with cluster members the landlord intervene and

mistook us as Government employees who were

inspecting and started scolding us and even warned

us not to be seen here anymore. We humbly stood

by our ground and tried telling them that we are

just students and we need to study for our course but

still we were asked to leave, so we left that

community cluster.

CONCLUSION: At the end of the day, we realised

that these people know their way out from the

property even if someone is earning rupees 4000

per month he or she is willing to spend half of their

salary on their children's studies. They lived their

life but are hopeful for their children to live a better

life. Obviously, lack of knowledge is affecting their

and their children's lives in a manner they don't

even know about vaccination. They didn't even

want their babies to get immunised because of the

after-effects like fever but hopefully they will

overcome the knowledge gap in near future.

DAY 3

Today was the third day of field work. Today's

objectives was to develop the route map of all

anganwadi of the community and acquaint ourselves

to Anganwadi workers and observe how they work.

We received some instructions from above

supervisor Dr. Nasra mam, she

told us about the working of anganwadis. After

inquiring with community people with got to know

there are almost 23 Anganwadi that are functioning

right now in the community, and we have to visit all

of them. We observed all of the aanganwadis are

functional and had healthy environment. People felt

safer there and even praised the workers when we

interacted with them personally.

One thing we observed was workers of Anganwadi

were not happy, they complained that their higher

authorities don't treat them right and they receive

almost no funding. When inquired about the children

that they take care of, they refused to give any detail

even on a personal level. They didn't even shared

their names with us and the reason they gave was

that they were not allowed to do so. We tried

contacting higher authorities on this matter but our

efforts went in vain.

CONCLUSION: mostly all of the people who used

aanganwadi were satisfied, so functioning of

Anganwadi is are satisfactory in the community.
DAY 4

Today was the fourth day of our fieldwork and

today's objective were:

1. Developing the route map of major Health

Care facilities that are- Mohalla clinics,

dispensary, famous private doctors and

observe their functioning in the community.

2. Interacting with community people and

jotting down all the common ailments

faced by the community people.

We entered the community and started asking

people about the health care facilities used by them

let it be government aided or private. To our

finding, we found that most people use private

doctors. These private doctors are famous, have

many patients and charges minimal fees.

We started by exploring Mohalla clinics first. There

are two Mohalla clinics in the community for these

community people. We interacted with workers and

doctors there, they all were friendly and ready to

comply. We chatted with both of the doctors in

clinics and they received and help us well and told

us about the common ailments of most of the people

that are caused due to unhygienic conditions that

they live in like skin problems and UTI in men and

women both but more common in women because

of unavailability to clean toilets. The main reason for

both skin problems and UTI are unhygienic

conditions that these people live in. Other health

problems are due to malnutrition and tension

because of poverty like diabetes, hypertension, heart

problems. Other common problems were loose

motions, diarrhoea big problems like dengue, malaria

requires immediate attention so they refer these

people to government hospital outside the

community. Most of the private doctors denied to

talk to us and the one that talked to us refused to give

any detail. That doctor gave us the same ailments list

like mohalla clinic doctor gave that his patients go

through with.

CONCLUSION: Healthcare facilities in the

community are average, doctor and workers are

well educated and government facilities a working

well.

Common ailments are due to unhygienic condition

and poverty which is an undeniable part of the

community.
DAY 5

Today was a fifth day of a field work .Today's

assignments were:

1. Developing the route map from Jasola metro

station to Legal Aid Clinic and observe its

functioning and its role in development of

individual as well as role in development of

community.

2. Getting to know all the religious places in the

community and try to develop an

understanding of the influence on

development of community.

We started our day by interacting with community

people and whether do

they know about Legal aid clinic or not. Most of

the people didn't know about the Legal Aid clinic,

even on Google Maps we were not able to locate

any Legal Aid clinic. After much time, we found

out there is no legal clinic functioning in the

community at the moment.

Legal Aid clinic is necessary for these people. Most

of the people don't know

about their basic fundamental rights as a result, when

their rights are violated, these people didn't even get

to known. When landed in some situations, these

people don't know what to do so, out of the whole

population these people are most vulnerable to

become victims as they are literally have no sense of

their legal rights hence, they are easily violated.

For example while interacting with community

basically women who worked as maids,didn't

received their salaries before or during the lock

down even after working in this period. This shows

how easily they get violated; all of their keepers had

excuses but most of them took advantage of them.

This side of Delhi capital shows how people with

money exploits and take advantage of situation like

these and ultimately poorest of the poor suffers and

no one bats an eye.

After the failed search, We moved on to our next

assignment that was assigned to us; that was getting

to know about all the religious places in the

community firstly we mapped two Hindu diety

temples that are:

1. Mata ka Mandir

2. Durga Mandir

Most of the people in community are Hindus hence

these Mandirs are quite popular and used by almost

every Hindu.

There were priest present who refused to talk to us

may be thinking that we are from government so we

decided to ask about Mandir and priests from

community people. People told us every Hindu is a

devoted Hindu and religion matters them the most.

We even identified various religious marks on almost

every house/ Jhuggi/ flat of Hindu people. It is their

way to keep bad vibes away from their houses. We

found it very traditional and cultural on asking one

woman what this sign serves, she told us she made it

because her mother used to make it. So, we concluded

there is no cultural beliefs related to their but they

are keeping alive their tradition; women mostly were

distributing Prasad and even offered to us as well.

Inside area of the temple was very clean however

people were not following any covid-19 priests seems

friendly to God devotees.

Next stop is made was a Masjid. Mosque built

inside a narrow Lane, Masjid along with few

houses were undergoing construction and it had a

fair system to perform wazu and had a clean and

healthy environment. Muslims came here in fair

population. Islam is the second most practiced

religion in Jasola village.

Next stop we made was church in Jasola village

there are total tqo churches side-by-side. Christians

in Jasola village a very few in number, both of the

church's had excellent infrastructure we didn't get

to meet anyone incharge because they were busy

but we noted both of the churches have clean

environment except the fact that they are built in

front of big open drain that Stinks a lot and must be

powerhouse of mosquitoes and many diseases.

 Church had an old age home, a government training

skills Centre as well that give employment

opportunities to many individuals in the field of

stitching and tailoring.

CONCLUSION people in Jasola village mainly

practices threel religions that are

1. Hinduism

2. Islam

3. Christian

Hindu being the largest followed religion,Muslim

second largest and Christianity least followed

religion. Even though there are many differences in

culture, tradition and all, still these people live in

harmony and peace stands up for each other in

difficult times. In the period of lock down, these

people helped each other the most when their

significant employer ignored them. These

differences don't matter when it comes to taking

and giving favoures to one another.

DAY 6

Today was the 6th day of our field work and our

objectives were:

1. Getting acquainted with the student of major

schools functioning in Jasola village and try to

develop understanding of working of

Educational Institute on all levels that are

Primary, secondary and senior.

2. Interacting with NGO workers and try to

develop understanding and their working.

As we entered community,we started asking adults

and children where they study the most common

answer was Mansi School it's a government school

and majority population of children go there to

study. We visited Mansi school where we were told

to wait. Later on, principal told us it works in two

shifts, morning for girls and in afternoon,for boys.

Because of covid -19, school premises are closed

and currently all classes are being held online

including exam.

Teaching online is a great challenge in itself. Most

children do not have access to smartphone as in the

family of four to five people, one smart phone is not

enough for two or more to attend online classes. It is

impossible for children to study, forcing them to

drop out from school. Children and their families

are requesting school to operate offline but they

can't help it they work on Government orders. Other

private school have a bit high fees and some of

them are working offline. They don't have problem

as those parents can afford more than one

smartphone. This have created a knowledge gap

that will be hard to fill.

CONCLUSION:covid-19 have interrupted the

working of schools and

learning of children. Online operating schools have

degraded the quality of education in the children and

the knowledge gap created because of this pandemic

may be very difficult to fill. Talking about the

operation of schools, we found schools have well

educated staff and children are happy.

DAY 7

Today was the 7th day of fieldwork. Today's

objective were:

1. Interacting with community people and

understanding their cultural and traditional

beliefs and how they affect their development

socially, economically and personally.

2. Finding about person or persons who

influences them about their beliefs the most

and also how their religion is related to their

culture and traditions.

As we entered the community, we started

observing people and their cultural and

traditional beliefs and the practices practiced

 by community people.

We observed some tattoos on hands of both men and

women on asking why they have it they told us

about the culture or their family that compelled them

to have it. We observed tulsi plant planted outside

some jhuggis and Swastika sign too. In short, their

culture represented the religion. For the community

people culture and religion are interrelated and one

can't go without another. Both of them influences

Each other. Religious institutes play major role in

the life of these people they can't ignore what is said

by priest or Imam.

CONCLUSION community Jasola village is rich in

culture and all people follow certain religion no

matter how poor they are. They don't forget their

religion and culture. After being different, we only

solve Unity in them. No one told us that they don't

like Each Other because of differenc e in culture or

religion.
DAY 8

Today’s fieldwork was done on 8 March’21 (day

15th) as I was on leave due to some emergency.

 DAY 9

Today was the ninth day of our fieldwork and today's

objectives were:

1. Interacting with the community people and

make keen observations on the old people

and the Healthcare facilities used by them.

2. Making observations on old aged people's

mental and Physical health and how they

are treated in the community

3. Exploring the community and finding

about any functional old age home its

working and impact on the society

4. Understanding the situation that brought the

old people to old age

 home

As we entered community we started looking for

old people mainly aged above 60 years. Some were

seen on the road. When we visited jhuggis, we

found out when they turn about 60 or 65 these

people are sent back home from where they came.

Reasons are logical that most people living here are

daily wage labourers and they are gone for long

hours and there is no one to look after or attend

these aged people. some aged women in the

community complained about their daughter in law

who don't read them right and some were happy

and wanted to continue living in community. On

visiting old age home, we found out all these people

were thrown out of their houses and werel brought

here by police. Old age home is a part of Church. It

functions well andl had a clean healthy and friendly

environment. Three Sisters from Kerala are

imcharge of this charitable old age home old age.

While exploring the community, we observed no

such medical facilities dedicated solely to old

people. Government amd private health institutions

both complies with the ailment suffered by old age

people and try to help them.

DAY 10

Today was the tenth day of our field work and

today's objective were:

1. Interacting with the community people and

finding out about homeless people

2. Finding about the facilities available by homeless

people and how they

survive in Harsh weather conditions

3. Finding out about shelter homes dedicated to

homeless people, their working and impact on

the lives of these people

4. Get to know more about these people and the

problems faced by them While exploring the

community, it was hard to spot homeless people

when we asked some people about them we were

told all of the people must be at work so it is hard to

find them right now. On Google, we located a

Rainbasera and decided to head there.

We found a functional Rainbasera opposite to

churchand guard was welcoming us. But we were

prohibited to click any picture or shoot video.

Guard told us 21 men stays here at night and all of

them have their family somewhere else, they

earned and send them money. These people use

Rainbasera just to save money, all of them live,

eat, sleep, cook and clean together and there is no

such disagreements among them.

We observed Rainbasera was clean, sanitized and

had a healthy environment. Other than 21 men,

some men sometimes stays here but no women and

children ever stays here. All these people including

caretacker and guard lives in harmony amd

celebrates each other's happiness amd problems.

Rainbasera is operated by delhi government and is

an excellent step to provide nutritional diet to

homeless people which also offers them a roof on

head whenever they need it. Salaries offered to

guard amd caretacker is also satisfactory. When

asked if you are happy doing this job, both of them

repkied a big yes.

I think jasola village needs more functional

rainbaseras and it needs to become more equipped

so that women and children can stay here too.
DAY 11

Today was the 11th day of our fieldwork and today's

assignment were:

1. Entering the community and getting acquainted

with community people while observing the self

employment opportunity was obtained by the

community people.

2. Trying and finding about skill training centres

in Jasola village. I Understand its working,

funding and impact on the life of trainees and

on the community.

3. Observing and understanding about the self

employment options chosen by community

people and how they sustain their livelihood.

When we entered the community,we saw people

engaged in many self employment opportunities

like chat wala,ice cream vendor, Barber, broom

making business l, fruit and vegetable vendors and

other various vendors. Women opted for beauty

parlours , home tuitions (if educated) and tailoring

as well.

These people's work requires physical labour and

when asked if they are satisfied with the job,most of

the answers came as 'no'. People with aging signs

along with nutritional insufficiency suffered the

most. They don't even have one holiday in a week.

Working hours are long and hard, making life

difficult. One thing that makes them keep going ans

keep them motivated is - their children. They want

their children to do better; so they have to give

their best for them if not for themselves.

We found an operational training centre that teaches

women tailoring. That training centre is a

government one and is currently operational. It is

located in the church. We enquired about its

working, all people praised the teachers and told us

whoever gets training from there, they change their

lives for good. We visited the training centre and

found teachers very loving, caring and friendly.

Students there thought we are there to get admitted

and so, they welcomed us cheerfully. In training

centre, instructors also educate students which is a

very good initiative. Aim of the teachers there and

the training centre is to develop an understanding

among these community people that they have to do

something on their own to escape this poverty. They

have to help themselves first.

Training centre charges very nominal fees i.e.

2500rs for tailoring in which trainees receive a

sewing machine and a certificate as well. This

Training center is the only one that is recognized by

the government and working under church. Women

from all religions, backgrounds, castes have

enrolled themselves in the training.

We also found Private training centers in the

community that offered various courses and even

claimed the guarantee of getting a job. We talked to

the incharge of Sriniwas coaching centre and he told

us about the youth of jasola village that is interested

in studies and courses that they were offering. He

even told us about some students who got a well

paying job after completing computer courses. Poor

children who cannot afford fees study there at a

discounted price and even for free. But the only

condition is they have to study hard. We also met

other training centers managers/operators no one

told us about relaxation given to these poor children

by them like Srinivas sir told us.

CONCLUSION people who have enrolled

themselves in the training are changing their own

lives for good. These people have realized their only

way out from poverty is gaining skill and using it as

an entrepreneur opportunity to gain an income and

change their lives for good.

Poor youth enrolled in private institutions in a hope

of finding a good job shows the dedication of these

people to get out of this poverty and unhygienic

living condition. Wishing to do something for

themselves and their families is ultimately a step

up for this community that hopefully we will see in

near future.
DAY 12

Today was the twelfth day of our fieldwork and

today's objectives were:

1. To know about the mindset of community

people regarding different issues like gender

gap, superiority of one gender over another and

their beliefs on superstitions.

2. Understanding the deep-rooted stereotypes

that community people follow in common

like dowry system, purdah system,etc.

3. Getting to know more about the women in the

community and how they are treated in different

sections of the community and the common

problems and violence faced by them.

After entering the community,we started asking

women if they or their family members treat girl

child or boy child the same or differently.

Surprisingly most of the answers were: they are

treated differently. Most of the in-laws of these

women who talked to us told us that if she gave

birth to a baby girl, their in-laws and even their

husbands were unhappy and blamed them.

Opening up of these women to us was very difficult

for them. Not only were they bound by their in-laws

or husbands,they were emotionally exhausted too.

Talking on this topic for them was emotionally

overwhelming too. Out of 15 women approached by

us only eight spoke to us. Some of them became

very emotional.

On asking about the Dowry and Parda system, All

the answers were common

-yes. They are still practiced and make lives of

women living hell and no one bats an eye about this.

The Dowry system is practiced more commonly and

the worst part is - it is practiced openly.

wE MET SOME VICTIMS THAT COMPLAINT

ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WERE

SUBJECTED TO VARIOUS ABUSES

INCLUDING VERBAL AND EMOTIONAL AND

ULTIMATELY THROWN OUT OF THEIR

HOUSES BECAUSE OF THE "TYPICAL MEN

THINKING" THAT WOMEN SHOULD STAY

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS OR SIMPLY

BECAUSE THEIR HUSBAND OR IN-LAWS

SUSPECTED THEM OF HAVING AN AFFAIR

WITH SOME ELSE, WORSE WHERE THEIR

HUSBANDS THOUGHT THAT THEIR WIFE IS

'BEING SEEN' BY OTHER MEN. tHE dOWRY

SYSTEM HAS DONE DAMAGE TOO, WE SAW

INSTANCES IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE

WOMEN WERE MARRIED ONLY FOR DOWRY

AND LEFT AFTER THAT, WOMEN BEING

BEATEN

up to satisfy demands of husbands and in-laws.

Some women told us that lockdown was the worst

part of their lives. Families who stayed in the

community had lack of access to basically

everything, they were prohibited to get out. It was

a living nightmare for some of the women as they

were

locked with their abuser. Worst Of them was when

their drug addict husbands who were not getting

their 'doses', took out all of their frustrations on their

wives.

When asked about the violence from housemates,

answers were disturbing. One woman told us that her

husband beats her regularly on small things like once

she broke a glass. He never takes her to the hospital

and doesn't even give her money. Many women like

this didn't even open up or tell anyth ing to us.

It is sad to see these violences practiced by men

because of their typical thinking that women are

beneath them. The worst part is- their children

learning the same things from their parents.

DAY 13

Today was the 13th day of our fieldwork and today’s

objectives were:

1. Entering into the community and asking about

various training courses and institutes they are

enrolled in or want to.

2. Exploring various training institutes, observing

their roles in development of community and

community people.

3. Listing the various desirable training that the

community people want to receive.

After entering the community, we started observing

and noting down training centre in the community.

On asking about training centers, people told us

about some organizations that train women in

various field like mehendi art, pottery and weaving.

Another NGO named ‘Magic bus’ also worked

there and trained young boys and girls in various

fields like mobile repairing, cooking and painting

but during lockdown both of them stopped working

and people of the community are hoping to see

them start working again.

We found 2 private training centers and 1

government training center. Private training centers

offered training in various computer courses. On

the other hand, government training center offered

stitching and cutting clothes training. Both of these

centers charges nominal fees. Both of these are

working for the development of the community so

that beneficiaries can do better than their older ones

and live a more stable life.

We asked various family heads what kind of

training they want or want their children to receive

so that they can make a career out of this. Most

common answers for male were- driving,

electrician, plumbing, painting, mobile repairing

and mechanic.

For female- tailoring, weaving, mehendi artist,

pottery, textile designing and beautician.

DAY 14

Today was the 14th day of our fieldwork and today's

objectives were:

1. Entering the community and observing the

various entrepreneurs that created employment

opportunities for themselves and as well as for

other people.

2. Getting to know about the hardships and

struggle in starting a new business and

continuing their Family businesses.

3. Inquiring about the effects of log done on

the newly started and previously existing

businesses.

As we entered the community we observed a wide

range of entrepreneurs

indulged in different fields like Barber,vendors,

kirana store, labourers, construction worker

distributor, painters, etc.

We asked Salim Barber when and where he learnt

his work from. His answer was like most of the

entrepreneurs working in the community- I learnt it

by myself. Now he is earning well for himself and is

also teaching young boys the same work free of

cost in a hope that these boys will have a skill up

their hand and will do better than him. We also saw a

group of boys volunteeringly letting each other hair

in a hope to learn styling skill and can do better for

themselves and their family in future. Employing

others as well as themselves is also a step forward

towards development. In the time pandemic,

entrepreneurs were the most and worst affected. Due

to nationwide lockdown, all businesses took a hard

toll, as a result, entrepreneurs lost their incomes and

the resources. Daily labourers too were affected

the most. Having no access to ration and other

things, dealing with family problems like hunger

was the most emotional wrentching thing happened

to these people.

CONCLUSION nationwide lockdown not only

affected health of these people but also affected the

income, resources and snatched job security. People

who got paid doing lockdown were among the

luckiest. Most of the community people flew to

their native places who didn't have a job.

DAY 15

Today was the 15th day of our fieldwork and

today's objectives were:

1. Entering the community and

exploring the healthcare facilities

dedicated to woman and child

exclusively.

2. Exploring government as well as private

gynecologist and pediatricians

within the community.

3. Enquiring about the most common

ailments and problems faced by pregnant

woman and infant aged between 0-5

 years of age.

After entering the community, we started

observing and noting down the various clinics

dedicated to women and children.

Unfortunately, there is no government facility

officially dedicated to women and children.

Somewhat assistance is given by the MCD

dispensary but most of the people dislike going

there and prefer not going there. Mohalla

clinics have male doctors and they are not

specialised in any woman or child problem,

leaving women and children with no other

options other than going outside the

community or going to private clinics. While

exploring the community, we observed many

many private gynecologists sitting at almost

every corner in the community.

On enquiring about these doctors people called

them fraud. People living in the community for

a longer time don't go to these doctors because

they anyway know what kind of doctor they

are. Most common gynecologist in the

community are three gynecologists and they

charge very nominal fees. But the problem

with these doctors is they don't attend patients

on a daily basis; they only attend them only

twice a week that's why most women go to

Iqbal Faizi's clinic that is in Okhla Vihar that is

located outside the community.

Coming to the pediatrician, there is no

government or even private service for infants.

People have to take their infant to Holy Family

hospital, Al shifa hospital, or too Far Away

hospitals like Safdarjung. It is very unfortunate

for the community people that there is zero

pediatrician in such a large community.

CONCLUSION:

There are almost negligible Health Care

facilities for women and children. Whatever

Health Care facilities dedicated to women are

not satisfactory except two or three and that too

are not working at their best. Coming to

pediatricians, there is zero facility dedicated to

infants aged between 0 to 2 years. Common

ailments we found after talking to gynecologists

were fibroids, cystitis and vaginitis, leukorrhea.

Most women in pregnancy don't have access to

nutritional diet which leads to unhealthy

pregnancy also not having access to clean

toilets is another reason for UTI that women

and men both suffer with. Pregnant women are

most at risk losing their child in such

conditions.

It is very sad to see the Dark Side of Delhi

capital that people don't even have access to

basic amenities like clean toilets. They have to

go to the Jungle or to an open area which puts

their privacy, life and health at-risk.