Pannalal Singrore from Madhya Prtadesh sends greetings to all on the occassion of Republic Day. He is reporting about a village meeting on Republic Day where villagers are demanding restart of MNREGA work. He says becuse Madhya Pradesh governmet has not sent some report so central government has not released money. Due to this many villagers are forced to migrate in search of wor. For more please contact Pannalal Ji at 9407063029

Sanjay Sharma from Ambikapur wants to thank everyone for their efforts to get Pitbasu Bhoi his due NREGA wages. As it has been repoeted in the past that Pitbasu’s son Santosh died in hospital in want of blood when he was still looking for his wages of 100 days work. The payment was made on 20th January but Sanjay says according to NREGA laws if a paayment is delayed by more than a fortnight state government needs to pay compensation. There are thousands of scuh cases in Surguja where NREGA payments are delayed for many months which must change

Manish Rai is standing in Virampur village with a very bad mobile connectivity. He talks to quite a few laborers in the village who say they have not been paid wages for NREGA from more than a year. He also finds that many people have not been paid from their NREGA work from the year 2008-09. For more please contact Manish at 09826538904

Manish Rai from Ambikapur Chhattisgarh says I had reported about death of Santosh Bhoi in CGnet Swara 3 days back whose father Pitbasu Bhoi did not get any wages after working for 100 days in MGNREGA. He says I would like you to know that 3 days have passed but no government official have visited the family of Pitbasu Bhoi yet and he has not been paid any wages either. He says more than 40% laborers remain to be paid their wages in MGNREGA in Surguja district

Manish Rai from Ambikapur says some days back I had heard an interview on CGnet Swara with a labourer called Pitbasu who had completeled 100 days work in NREGA but had not been paid any wages. Today by chance I met him in the hospital and found that while Pitbasu was making rounds for his due NREGA wages his son died in the hospital. Is there any provision in NREGA to punish officials who has caused this grave incident? NREGA laws should be so strong that no one should wait for their wages as has happened with Pitbas. Fore more on the story please contact Manish at 09826538904