Anima Bannerjee from Pandaria block in Kawardha district of Chhattisgarh is telling us about 11 villages where Baiga adivasis are living for generations. She says there are no handpump in these villages and adivasis are forced to drink dirty water from streams. There are no school and anganwadi. Govt started work of electrification few years ago but that is no completed. You are requested to help. For more Anima Ji can be reached at 08717872770

Arjun Brahmane from Badwani district in Madhya Pradesh is singing a song in Adivasi Bareli language. For translation please contact Arjun at 09098123604

जब ले लगे सरकारी सुविधा के आस रे
मोर गांव के धरती हा मर गे पियास रे
बाँध नहर बन गे, खेती मा नई हे पानी
ईटा पथरा बनगे, बिन सिरमिट बिन पानी
होए नई है उद्घाटन, बाँध हा दरक गे रे
पापी बोमी आवथे डोमी का सरक गे रे
अनीमा बैनर्जी
For translation please contact Anima Ji at 09893346872

Arjun Venkatraman is reporting live from a Community Rights Sangamam rally of Adivasi organisations in Kushalnagar in Karnataka. He says there is lots of passion in people who are making a round of the city with their drums and chanting which one can hear on the background. Arjun promises to send some interviews with the people in the rally later. For more Arjun can be reached at 09811142825

Birju Oraon and Dineshwar Nayak have sent two reports about two functions to commemorate martyrdom day of Birsa Munda. Birju says Govt of Jharkhand is running a campaign to remove encroachment but the Govt and industry has encroached more than 8 lakh acre of adivasi land since independence. Dileshwar says the people said the dream Birsa Munda was fighting for has not been fulfilled yet and people need to continue the fight. Birju can be reached at 09431108856 and Dineshwar at 07870469663