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Sambalpur (Orissa), Nov. 26 : Compelled to arrange two square meals for her family after husband’s death, a woman in Orissa’s Sambalpur area has opted to be a keeper in a local crematorium here.  

Married at a tender age of 15, Shanti Behera lost her husband after turning 40. His death left her with two unmarried daughters. He used to work at the Kamlibatar Rajghat (cremation ground) located along the banks of River Mahanadi in Sambalpur.

It’s been five years since Shanti (45) took up her husband’s work despite being aware that women were strictly prohibited from working in cremation ground according to local custom.

Sangar (Jammu), Nov.26 : Residents of Sangar Village in Jammu have been looking for a proper bridge for over decades.

Sangar and its adjoining villages, comprising 20,000 people, in Jammu are compelled to depend on a rope bridge as their sole medium of connectivity.

In 1983, the only bridge that was constructed here by the then-ruling government was washed away during a flood. A steel trolley was then fitted by the Public Works Department that is used even today.

The trolley has a pulley attached to it and has to be toed with bare hands. Many end up wounding their limbs in this process.

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