Bindeshwari Painkra is visiting Korwapara up in the hills in village Lotapani in Gram Panchayat Katkalo in Mainpat block of Surguja district of Chhattisgarh where he finds that a Korwa woman have died of starvation. He speaks to her son Hingaram who tells him that they had no food. When they came after buying rice from selling wood and forest produce sick mother was still alive but she died before they can cook the food. For more Painkra ji can be reached at 07828972116

Bindeshwari Painkra from Kachnar Adivasi Vikas Sanstha in Surguja is Chhattisgarh is talking to some Korwa primitive tribals in a village up in the hills. They tell him that though they have NREGA cards but they have never got any work on that. They dug a well last year after Panchayat asked them them to do so but they are yet to get payment for the same. They request him to make sure that authorities should not catch them for forest which is their only source of income. For more Painkra ji can be reached at 07828972116

Bindeshwari Painkra from Kachnar Adivasi Vikas Samiti in Surguja in Chhattisgarh is visiting a Pahari Korwa village up in the hills. He is talking to people their about the school and finds out that there are 2 teachers in the school and they rarely come. There was some mid day meal before an inspection but that has also stopped. He requests the authorities to look into the matter for better future of primitive tribal Prahari Korwa children. For more Painkra ji can be reached at 07828972116

Bindeshwari Painkra this Holi went to a remote village in Surguja district in Chhattisgarh where primitive Pahari Korwa tribes live to celebrate the festival. Amidst the sound of drums and adivasi Holi songs he tells us that the life of these Pahari Korwas are very difficult. They do not get any work under NREGA. They are dependent on selling forest produce for their livelihood but they are celebrating the festival with lots of fun and local liquors. For more Painkra ji can be reached at 07828972116

Bindeshwari Lal Painkra from Kachnar Adivasi Vikas Sanstha in Surguja Chhattisarh is visiting a village for primitive tribe Korwas and discovers while talking to them that they have not got any NREGA work at all. They say though NREGA work started in the village but it went to others. Govt schemes are not reaching them. Some houses were broken by elephants in 2010. No compensation yet. There are no water, ho hospital, no electricity and they are forced to earn their livelihood from forest. For more Painkra ji can be reached at 08085913178