Kalavati Garhewal traveling with CGNet Swara Citizen Journalism Awareness Yatra has reached Kadak village of Chiri Panchayat, Kudu block, Lohardaga district in Jharkhand and talking to women who tell her that 55 poor families live there but only 5 of them poses BPL cards. many don’t have even a normal ration card. They’ve been applying to authorities and at Gram Sabha but nothing has happened so far. They request listeners to call BDO@9835547760, Collector@9470590889. Ravikant Pandre@9955449732.

Dhan Singh Parte is calling from Naigava Rayyat village of Nandram panchayat, Mawai block, Mandla district in Madhya Pradesh and says he had reported on Swara regarding Public Distribution System tokens. For lack of this people were not getting subsidized ration from many months. Following this officers responded and half of the villagers got tokens after 4 days. They thank and appeal listeners to call Food Inspector@9993753487 for helping the remaining people. Dhan Singh Parte@8305930352.

Govind Pandro traveling with CGNet Swara Citizen Journalism Awareness Yatra has reached Kottur village of Madhavaram Panchayat, Kukunur Tehsil, West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh and talking to villagers. They tell him in Gondi that they live in forest and make living on daily labor. None of the 12 families in their hamlet have ration cards. They’ve appealed to officials but got no response and waiting for help. You are requested to call PO ITDA@9490957004. Govind Pandro@9502817436.

Nanka Yadav is calling from Patkura village of Lakhanpur tehsil, Sarguja district in Chhattisgarh and complains of irregular ration distribution in PDS shop. The village for 400 adivasis is on mountains and they need to walk down 5 km to reach society but the ration dealer says there is no stock and sends them back. They haven’t received ration for 2 months in 2014 and February of this year as well. They appeal listeners to call Collector@9424284600 to help suffering villagers. Nanka Yadav@9407793132.

Patiram Marko is calling from Bhopatpur village and Panchayat, Bajag block, Dindori district in Madhya Pradesh and says ration was not getting distributed regularly from public distribution shop in their village from a long time. Then they had reported it on Swara in December 2014. After pressure made by listeners ration distribution has begun again from December month and they are happy to share it. Now they are also getting regular kerosene oil apart from grain from PDS shop. Patiram Marko@9669037356.