HOW do you get hesitant villagers in backward nooks of the country to turn up for COVID-19 vaccination? Ask Aadiwasi Jan Jagruti, a feisty group of volunteers in Dhadgaon block of Nandurbar, a tribal district in northwest Maharashtra. Using mobile phones, they make short videos on government schemes, civic issues, social issues and more so that people get apt information in their own language from their own people.
The group was quick to pick up misinformation spreading in Nandurbar on the novel coronavirus and vaccines. They took on rumour-mongering by debunking fallacies through their short films. Information was. . .
