This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5... more This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5 year age group and also to suggest an intervention strategy to immunize the non-immunized children. This was a cross sectional study using the quantitative method. A total of 147 children aged between 0 to 5 years from the community were enumerated in the survey.
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control,... more Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnographic empirical work with two hunting nomadic groups in India by two of the co-authors who are working with the Kheria Sabar community in Purulia district in West Bengal and Pardhi community in Mumbai. The latter were subject to notification under the notorious Criminal Tribes Act 1871, marking them out as ‘criminal tribes’ until their de-notification shortly after India's independence in 1947, yet the Kheria Sabars too feel its effects. We draw attention here to the continual negotiation and (re)fabrication of both state and citizen at ...
TANDA - Towards Advocacy Networking and Developmental Action, Mumbai, Mar 1, 2012
This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5... more This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5 year age group and also to suggest an intervention strategy to immunize the non-immunized children. This was a cross sectional study using the quantitative method. A total of 147 children aged between 0 to 5 years from the community were enumerated in the survey. Consent was obtained from parents of 78 children and mothers of these children were interviewed with the help of a structured interview schedule. Only 11.5 per cent children were fully immunized while 37.2 per cent children were partially immunized and 51.3 per cent children were non-immunized. However, they had received oral polio drops during the pulse-polio campaign. The immunization coverage among the NT-DNT children is appalling and distressing. This community is one of the most oppressed since centuries, and has been denied political, social and economic rights, owing to their being ‘criminalised’ by the erstwhile Criminal Tribes Act, 1871. A comprehensive approach is required to address their social determinants of health. This can be achieved through a coordinated effort by State agencies, civil society organisations and other stakeholders.
This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5... more This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5 year age group and also to suggest an intervention strategy to immunize the non-immunized children. This was a cross sectional study using the quantitative method. A total of 147 children aged between 0 to 5 years from the community were enumerated in the survey.
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control,... more Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnographic empirical work with two hunting nomadic groups in India by two of the co-authors who are working with the Kheria Sabar community in Purulia district in West Bengal and Pardhi community in Mumbai. The latter were subject to notification under the notorious Criminal Tribes Act 1871, marking them out as ‘criminal tribes’ until their de-notification shortly after India's independence in 1947, yet the Kheria Sabars too feel its effects. We draw attention here to the continual negotiation and (re)fabrication of both state and citizen at ...
TANDA - Towards Advocacy Networking and Developmental Action, Mumbai, Mar 1, 2012
This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5... more This study was carried out to assess the immunization status of the NT-DNT children in the 0 to 5 year age group and also to suggest an intervention strategy to immunize the non-immunized children. This was a cross sectional study using the quantitative method. A total of 147 children aged between 0 to 5 years from the community were enumerated in the survey. Consent was obtained from parents of 78 children and mothers of these children were interviewed with the help of a structured interview schedule. Only 11.5 per cent children were fully immunized while 37.2 per cent children were partially immunized and 51.3 per cent children were non-immunized. However, they had received oral polio drops during the pulse-polio campaign. The immunization coverage among the NT-DNT children is appalling and distressing. This community is one of the most oppressed since centuries, and has been denied political, social and economic rights, owing to their being ‘criminalised’ by the erstwhile Criminal Tribes Act, 1871. A comprehensive approach is required to address their social determinants of health. This can be achieved through a coordinated effort by State agencies, civil society organisations and other stakeholders.
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