A villager from an adivasi village in Chhattisgarh says though our Gram Sabha has rejected the prosposal a stone crusher is getting installed in the common land in our village with the help of police and administration. He says it is an adivasi village and no land can be taken without our permission but administation is thrusting this industry on us. For more please speak to the caller at 09617801795

Mangal Kunjam is interviewing a villager near National Mineral Development Corporation mines in Dantewada who says his NMDC township wants to take their culivable land for building a bus stand and quarters for the workers. The villagers say not only the land taken for the stand but also nearby land will be destroyed which is their only source of income. They have complained to higher authorities but no one listens. For more Mangal can be reached at 09407708515

Manoj Kumar from Kota in Rajasthan says there are lots of stone quarries in my area and there are many groups which raise the issue of mining. But there is no one to raise the issue of post mining. Once the mining is over they leave the area as it is and the area remains unuseful for agriculture. The mine companies should fill the area and do plantation to make it appropriate for agriculture once mining is over. For more Manoj Ji can be reached at 08890127086

Khuturam Sunani is talking to a villager in Bolangir district of Odisha who says the school in his village was inaugurated by MLA in 2006 but because it is on forest land so the forest department is not allowing a school building to be built and children are forced to study under a tree. People have also not got the community land rights under Forest Rights Act which can inable them to make a school building. For more Khuturam ji can be reached at 09437657625