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Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a pan-India NGO, has won the eNGO Challenge 2019-2020 for extending help and support to the people of Assam during the NRC process.
The Mumbai-based NGO, headed by activist Teesta Setalvad, through its voluntary ground-level work reached out to about 10 lakh underprivileged people left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam.
The NGO’s volunteers spread across the state’s 33 districts, travelling from village to village to train the affected “marginalised, poor, uneducated” people hailing from the remotest places in the process of rights and entitlement discourse and in dealing with the state’s bureaucratic chain. Read More
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