Sarla Shrivas has reached Kotwaripad village in Sendur Panchayat in Balrampur block and district of Chhattisgarh where village women tell her that they have 4 hand pumps for 700 people but 3 are broken from 5 years and no one listens. They go half a kilometer to a nullah to fetch water. You are requested to call Public health and engineering dept@09009986325, 09926943761 and Sarpanch@09697783315 to help suffering villagers. For more villagers@08889099484 and 9165715604.

We got piped water connection in our village 5 months back but that is yet to start says Nirbhay Mandavi. He is from Kosmi village in Manpur block of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh and tells Sarla Shrivas that they went to local officers many times with request letters but they just ignore them. You are requested to call CEO@9479082150, Collector@9425274165, Village Secretary@9407711290 and Ward representative@7587404120 to help solve the problem. Sarla@9479058207

30 of us don’t have ration cards so we are not getting subsidized foodgrains. We are landless so are suffering says village women of Rampur village and panchayat in Paudiuproda block of Korba district in Chhattisgarh to Sarla Shriwas. Without ration card no other Govt work is also possible so they are suffering there too. You are requested to call Collector@9425270044, CEO@7810297213. For more details you can reach villager Rambaran@7747020652, Suresh@8435111401.

Around 100 people live here in ward no 4 of Sonhara village and panchayat of Balrampur district in Chhattisgarh but there is no handpump or other source of water. We need to walk more than half a km to get dirty water from river and people are falling ill. This was proposed in panchayat many times but no progress has been made till now say villagers to Sarla Shriwas. You are requested to call PHE Officer@9009986325, 9926943761 and SDO@9425638253.Villager Manoj@9669758133.

Sarla Shrivas traveling with CGnet Swara Citizen Journalism Awareness Yatra is calling from Savni village in Balrampur block and district in Chhattisgarh where villagers tell her that 150 people of 40 families live in their part of village but don’t have any hand pump. They fetch dirty water from nullah a kilometer away and are falling ill. Officers don’t listen. You are requested to call PHE officers@09009986325, 9926943761. Villager Paras Pal@09009164581