Sanjay Sharma from Ambikapur in Surguja district in Chhatttisgarh is telling about a case of laborer Mr Mahilaram of village Kakna in Rajpur block of the district who lost one of his eyes while working in NREGA on 19th July 2008. Though NREGA has provision of compensation for injury while working he has not got any compensation after repeated complaints. For details please contact Sanjay Ji at 09754332440

Prakash Gupta from Ambikapur says 3 days back on 5th March I had reported about less and non payment in NREGA work in Batauli block of Surguja district. Today an officer from the district came to the panchayat to investigate and spoke to concerned laborers who told the officer that they have got wages at the rate of Rs 70 instead of Rs 100. Panchayat secretary said wages of more than Rs 48,000 is due while the engineer in charge of the work said all payments have been made. For more Prakash can be reached on 07697852665

Sanjay Sharma from Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh is telling about a NREGA work of deepening of pond in Turna village of Lakhanpur block from 2010. He says 63 laboreres worked on it and no wages have been paid to any of them so far. Total of Rs 1,47,700 wages are due to the people, for which they have complained to Panchayat, Janpad and also to collector. People have also gone to labor court but have not got any help yet. For more please contact Sanjay Ji at 09754332440

Bindeshwari Lal Paikra from Sitapur block of Surguja district in Chhattisgarh was visiting Semarpura village where he starts talking to some laborers who worked on NREGA a year back. They said they have not been fully paid yet. They said their job card is with the higher village officials. And if again given a chance they will not want to work for NREGA as the payment is so late and irregular. For more please contact Bideshwar Ji 07828972116

Sanjay Sharma is telling us about a public hearing on non payment in MGNREGA on 5th March in Ambikapur in Surguja. 350 villagers from 30 villages took part in the hearing and presented letters from more than 700 laborers which talks of lakhs of rupees of due payment in MGNREGA. Some of these payments are due from 3 years. None of the officers of the state department attended the meeting. For more details please contact Sanjay ji at 09754332440